System and method for instant messenger to make friend by cyber pet

A method for making friends by a cyber pet, by which a service system including an instant messenger server provides a user using an instant messenger with a service for raising a cyber pet and making friends through the cyber pet moving to a registered friend list, the method comprising:

• (a) providing a user connected to the instant messenger server with an instant messenger program having a service function for raising a cyber pet and making friends through the cyber pet via an Internet network, the instant messenger program being to be installed in the user's client terminal;
• (b) collecting information of a registered friend list of the user from the instant messenger program executed in the user's client terminal, and storing and managing the information in the instant messenger server;
• (c) when an active window of the instant messenger is opened at the user's client terminal, displaying the cyber pet on the user's client terminal;
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• (d) in the case that the user does not raise the cyber pet for a predetermined time, receiving from the instant messenger server a first group friend list registered by the user, and a second group friend list registered by each friend in the first group friend list and an Nth group friend list (N is 2 or more) hierarchically linked thereto and forming a potential friend list from the second and subsequent group friend lists, moving the cyber pet to the first group friend list and the potential friend list of the user with a predetermined probability, and displaying the cyber pet on a client terminal of another user executing the instant messenger,
• wherein the service system enables the user or the another user to raise the cyber pet, and raising information exchange of the cyber pet between the user and the another user and communication mediation through the cyber pet therebetween.

A system for making friends by a cyber pet, which provides a user using an instant messenger with a service for raising a cyber pet and making friends through the cyber pet moving to a registered friend list, the system comprising:

• an instant messenger server for providing an instant messenger program having a service function for raising a cyber pet and making friends through the cyber pet, maintaining connection information of users connected to an instant messenger to enable communication between the users, and collecting friend list information from the users and storing and managing the information;
• a cyber pet providing unit for providing a cyber pet raising service by receiving from the instant messenger server a first group friend list registered by the user, a second group friend list registered by each friend in the first group friend list and an Nth group friend list (N is 2 or more) hierarchically linked thereto, forming a potential friend list from the second and subsequent group friend lists, and moving the cyber pet to the first group friend list and the potential friend list of the user;
• a total database linked with the instant messenger server and the cyber pet providing unit for storing and updating information of the user and the cyber pet;
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• a client terminal having the instant messenger program installed therein, and when the instant messenger is executed and an active window of the instant messenger is opened, displaying the cyber pet to provide the user with the cyber pet raising service, wherein, in the case that the cyber pet is not raised at the user's client terminal for a predetermined time, the cyber pet providing unit moves the cyber pet to the first group friend list and the potential friend list of the user with a predetermined probability, displays the cyber pet to another user executing the instant messenger to provide the another user with the cyber pet raising service, and enables raising information exchange of the cyber pet between the user and the another user and communication mediation through the cyber pet therebetween.