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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113931 | Video game processing apparatus, video game processing method and video game processing program A controller executes a special effect selection representation using a slot representation representing a slot machine when a fever accumulative value, which is accumulated by a player character doing damage to an enemy character, reaches a predetermined value, and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105162 | Video game processing apparatus, method and computer program product for controlling progress of a video game A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game is provided. The video game is used to simulate resale business of goods on a display screen of an image display apparatus. The image display apparatus is caused to distinguishably display de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105160 | Video game processing apparatus, method, and a computer-readable medium for processing a video game including a variably displayed life point meter An image display apparatus is caused to display a life point meter for showing a total remaining life point within a life point display region on an image display screen. When an action or event occurs to any player character so that the remaining life point thereof... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103736 | Status notifying method in communication system, status notifying server and communication system A profile server group determines whether any request for status notification is received from the client. If there is a request for status notification, a handle name included in the request is obtained, and a status flag corresponding to the handle name is extract... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096879 | Block game program and block game apparatus for removing blocks in accordance with a timing operation A block game program and a block game apparatus that can improve interest therein by using a new block removal method and a new block movement method are achieved. The game program sequentially produces blocks in a playing field displayed on a display screen to form... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8088007 | Network game not requiring continuous connectivity A cellular phone used to execute a game is connected to a server apparatus when a need arises to transmit or receive information. The game is individually progressed by each cellular phone. A user equips a player character with a material to use a magic in a battle.... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8070573 | Video game apparatus and video game program A video game apparatus has a memory for storing two or more tasks which a player character can get instructed character(s) to execute according to a scenario development of a game, means for displaying tasks at a time when a scenario development of a game reaches a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8012007 | Video game processing apparatus, method and computer program product of processing video game A video game, in which a player character operated by a player fights against an enemy character and one character wins by lowering a life parameter for the other character by means of an attack to a battle impossible value at which the other character cannot fight,... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007365 | Video game processing device, video game processing method and video game processing program A video game processing device for controlling progress of a video game includes a storage unit for storing a map-related data including a map information indicating a predetermined area and a status information of a non-player character, a communication establishin... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007362 | Method of displaying multiple kinds of independently processed display data A terminal apparatus executes different kinds of network games provided by a server group. The user of the terminal apparatus can register other users who become acquainted with the user through network games in a friend list provided for each user. While the termin... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001210 | Transmission and reception of display information that configures a screen with multiple screen elements A cellular phone does not store information unnecessary for displaying a screen and transmits a screen display request including an identifier of a screen to be displayed next to a server apparatus. In response to the screen display request, the server apparatus rea... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7947890 | Program recording medium, playback device, and playback control method Disclosed is a technology that enables a user to quickly obtain associated information of a music piece to his/her taste while passively hearing music pieces. An initial screen is displayed. A box is displayed at the center of the initial screen, and a character str... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938724 | Game device, game implementation method, program and recording medium To improve game performance, in a three-dimensional video game in which a viewpoint position changes in accordance with a movement of a player character, considering an aspect of how to show a player an activation of a prescribed effect at a second object, forming a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934996 | Online video game control server and a method of controlling an online video game An online video game controlling server includes an online game information storage database for storing game information on an online video game that includes player information on player characters and area information on a game area of the online video game, and ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930366 | Information servicing method, recording medium recording with programs for realizing the method, and information servicing system An information servicing method for communicating information between a server and a client terminal through a network, comprising: deciding whether a predetermined time period has elapsed without user input; switching a prevailing processing to a background process... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927217 | Network game system, game server system, client system, network game processing method, and recording medium To prevent a network response to a game server from deteriorating, a flag information management unit of a game server is provided. The flag information management unit manages flags indicating information on player characters (PC) in response to requests from clien... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927202 | Video game processing apparatus, a method and a computer program product for processing a video game It is an object that a normally selectable command or a command for specifying an appropriate action in accordance with the state of a player character can be easily selected through a simple operation by a player. In a command control process, at least one normal a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7899814 | Contents information search control system and contents information search control method Disclosed is a contents information search control system that, when automatic search of contents, such as game software, is performed with a terminal, such as a cellular phone, according to a user's preference, can reflect a change in user's interest or expansion o... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887421 | Video game control system and a video game control server When support appeal reception information is received from a player terminal, a support appeal information transmitter transmits support appeal information for support appeal to other player terminals than the player terminal. In this case, the other player terminal... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887416 | Online game system and online game program In an online game server, an updater updates at least one of a game program and game data for server stored in a storage section in accordance with an update operation for data to be utilized when to execute a sub game other than a main game in an online game. Updat... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7846021 | Game apparatus, game element generation method, program and recording medium In a game capable of generating a game element which gives rise to predetermined benefits in the game by means of a player's operation, by preventing the player from quickly getting used to a generation operation of the game element, to stop the player from becoming... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878904 | Object selecting method When an upper part of a cross key is operated with a controller, a cursor is moved to an object name above an initial position where the cursor was located in a list, and an icon is moved to a corresponding object in an object display area. When a lower part of the ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868889 | Method of causing object to take motion using motion data A first display displays a game image which is generated by perspective transformation of a virtual three-dimensional space. A second display is provided under a touch panel to display an image of a two-dimensional plane excluding a height direction with a player ch... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859532 | Generating character images based upon display conditions In a 2D and 3D character determining process, the contents of display status information indicating a display status of a non-player character, such as a display position and display brightness, is confirmed. It is then determined whether or not the display status o... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7841943 | Video game processing apparatus, a method and a computer program product for processing a video game An added value is set to a battle tool for customizing the battle tool stored as battle tool information in a battle tool information managing table in response to customization request by operations of a player. A plurality of battle tools are stored in the battle ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840640 | Mail exchange between users of network game A server group includes a mail server and multiple game servers that provide different games. The mail server includes a character information table where a character name used in each game is registered and associated with a user and a game name and a mailbox prepa... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7824265 | Virtual camera control method in three-dimensional video game A central position of each character participating in a battle is obtained as a fixation point, and multiple temporary points are set on a hemisphere around the fixation point. Each temporary viewpoint position is set on a straight line connecting the fixation point... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819731 | Method for generating game element from photographed image When a player character has a raw stone material, a player can carry out material conversion at an arbitrary timing. In the material conversion, the player captures an arbitrary image in a real space or a virtual 3D space. RGB data of predetermined pixels are extrac... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818688 | Information browsing apparatus and method, program and recording medium In a display device, items of information relating to specified information, which is displayed as the largest item, via a selected relation criterion, are displayed aligned on a selection axis, and items of information relating via other relation criteria are displ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814156 | Management of account information in a network game service for mail exchange A terminal operated by a user is connected to a server group, including a management server, a mail server, and a database server, via the Internet. In the database server, current account information, including a mail address of the user for mail exchange is regist... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805530 | Interactive content delivery server, a method and a computer program product for interactively delivering content A user participation type game is provided that keeps a user interested in the game, or provides the user with an adequate sense of enjoyment while playing the game by changing content to be delivered on a game in which a scene is shifted in accordance with a predet... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804502 | Method of causing first object to take motion according to positional relationship with second object When a direction is input through a direction indicating switch of an operation switch unit, a player character of a game, such as, but not limited to, for example a basketball game, moves in the inputted direction while dribbling a ball. When a direction directed t... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7794321 | Video game processing apparatus, video game processing method and video game processing program An on-line video game video game control server serves to read out a mini-game score information generated every player, in which three scores used for determining parameter of a summoned beast used for a main story in sub-game scores having no relation to a main st... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7789759 | Game contents delivery system and a method of delivering game contents A game contents delivery server receives a desire to obtain contents from the player terminal with presentation of the contents ID via a communication network. The game contents delivery server creates tag data uniquely defined when the desire to obtain the contents... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761512 | Message exchange A message exchange method can realize a chat easily in an interface with users who are on-line using a chat window. First status information of a receiving client that will receive a message is confirmed. Then, when the receiving client is connected to a message ser... | 07/20/2010 |
| D618285 | Arcade game machine | 06/22/2010 |
| D618284 | Arcade game machine | 06/22/2010 |
| 7731590 | Creation of ranking table for competitive game Game apparatuses connected in a peer-to-peer manner play a competitive game with each other. Each of the game apparatuses stores a ranking table ranking points of multiple users based on past games of the users. When finishing playing the game, the game apparatuses ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7707209 | Retrieval method for contents to be selection candidates for user Each of information on user characteristic and information on game content characteristic is arranged as position information using two or more parameters on the same coordinate system. The contents are divided into a plurality of content groups. Upon reception of a... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706825 | System for exchanging mail among members belonging to group A cellular phone of a member, who newly joins a group, creates a member list including a group ID and profile of a leader, and transmits a participation contact mail including a profile of the corresponding new member to a cellular phone of the leader. The cellular ... | 04/27/2010 |
