METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NETWORK INTERFACE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate participation in a game in a multiuser environment by retrieving the list of usable games by capsuling access to a lobby server while using any specified object when scalably connecting a lot of users in the multiuser game. SOLUTION: A data processing system 8 has plural networks such as LAN 10 and 32 and through the LAN 10 and 32, plural individual computers 12 and 30 are connected. Besides, the data processing system 8 has a main frame computer 18 and this is connected to a storage device 20 operable as a remote storage mechanism for the LAN 10. Similarly, the LAN 10 is connected to a subsystem control unit/communication control unit 26 by a communication link 24 and can be connected through a communication link 34 to a gateway server 28. It is preferable that an IWS to be operated for linking the LAN 32 to the LAN 10 is used as the gateway server 28.