Apparatuses, methods and systems for an online game manager

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a user server migration request for a user having client data and state associated with a game executed by a current server, wherein user social graph data identifies co-users and online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users, and server load indices of servers associated with the co-users and server load analysis rules are identified;

identifying a subset of the servers as non-overloaded transfer candidate servers by analyzing the server load indices using the server load analysis rules and calculating a transfer candidate server score for each of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers using the user social graph data and the online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users;

selecting, based on the transfer candidate server scores, one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers for migrating the user;

stopping client-server interaction for the game executed by the current server and saving the client data and state of the user associated with the game;

migrating client data and state associated with the user to the selected non-overloaded transfer candidate server; and

resuming client-server interaction for the game for execution at the selected non-overloaded transfer candidate server using the client data and state.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the transfer candidate server scores comprises:

obtaining a co-user relationship strength score for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers;

calculating, for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers, a co-user online overlap score using the online activity pattern data;

calculating, for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers, a co-user weight derived from a product of their co-user online overlap score and their co-user relationship strength score; and

calculating, for each non-overloaded transfer candidate server, its associated transfer candidate server score as a summation of the co-user weights for each co-user associated with the transfer candidate server.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are included in the user social graph data.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are calculated using the online activity pattern data.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein calculating the co-user relationship strength score for each co-user comprises:

calculating a co-user activity overlap score for each co-user using the online activity pattern data;

determining whether the user social graph data includes a relationship strength indicator;

calculating the co-user relationship strength score using the co-user activity overlap score and the relationship strength indicator, if it is determined that the user social graph data includes the relationship strength indicator; and

providing the co-user activity overlap score as the co-user relationship strength score, if it is determined that the user social graph data does not include the relationship strength indicator.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user server migration request is provided by the user or provided by a server currently storing the data associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining a server load index of a current server associated with the user;

analyzing the server load index of the current server using the server load analysis rules; and

generating the user server migration request based on analyzing the server load index of the current server.

8. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor disposed in communication with the memory and configured to issue processing instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor executes instructions

receive a user server migration request for a user, and in response to the request further process user social graph data identifying co-users, and online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users, and process server load indices of servers associated with the co-users, and server load analysis rules;

identify a subset of the servers as non-overloaded transfer candidate servers by analyzing the server load indices using the server load analysis rules;

calculate a transfer candidate server score for each of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers using the user social graph data and the online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users;

select, based on the transfer candidate server scores, one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers for migrating the user; and

migrate data associated with the user to the selected non-overloaded transfer candidate server.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to calculate the transfer candidate server scores comprise instructions to:

obtain a co-user relationship strength score for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers;

calculate, for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers, a co-user online overlap score using the online activity pattern data;

calculate, for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers, a co-user weight derived from a product of their co-user online overlap score and their co-user relationship strength score; and

calculate, for each non-overloaded transfer candidate server, its associated transfer candidate server score as a summation of the co-user weights for each co-user associated with the transfer candidate server.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are included in the user social graph data.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are calculated using the online activity pattern data.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to calculate the co-user relationship strength score for each co-user comprise instructions to:

calculate a co-user activity overlap score for each co-user using the online activity pattern data;

determine whether the user social graph data includes a relationship strength indicator;

calculate the co-user relationship strength score using the co-user activity overlap score and the relationship strength indicator, if it is determined that the user social graph data includes the relationship strength indicator; and

provide the co-user activity overlap score as the co-user relationship strength score, if it is determined that the user social graph data does not include the relationship strength indicator.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the user server migration request is provided by the user.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the user server migration request is provided by a server currently storing the data associated with the user.

15. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processor further issues instructions to:

obtain a server load index of a current server associated with the user;

analyze the server load index of the current server using the server load analysis rules; and

generate the user server migration request based on analyzing the server load index of the current server.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving a server migration request for a user having client data and state associated with a game executed by a current server, wherein user social graph data identifies co-users and online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users;

calculating a transfer candidate server score to identify non-overloaded transfer candidate servers using the user social graph data and the online activity pattern data associated with the user and the co-users;

stopping client-server interaction for the game executed by the current server and saving the client data and state of the user associated with the game;

migrating client data and state associated with the user to a selected non-overloaded transfer candidate server; and

resuming client-server interaction for the game for execution at the selected non-overloaded transfer candidate server using the client data and state, wherein the method is executed by a processor.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein calculating the transfer candidate server scores includes obtain a co-user relationship strength score for each co-user associated with one of the non-overloaded transfer candidate servers.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are included in the user social graph data.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the co-user relationship strength scores are calculated using the online activity pattern data.