Patents by Inventor Minehiro Nagata
Minehiro Nagata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9914058Abstract: If a carryover condition has been satisfied such that the attacks against an enemy character, which are carried out by the player character in a first battle scene against the enemy character that appears in said first battle scene, can be extended to other enemy characters, the carryover processing module sequentially executes a process that uses a first attack value generated as a result of the player character's attacks against the enemy character in the first battle scene to offset defeat parameter values required to defeat enemy characters configured in each of the enemy characters appearing in each battle scene provided subsequent to said first battle scene, skips the appearance of the enemy characters whose defeat parameter values have been reduced to zero and, additionally, causes the subsequently appearing enemy character to appear in a state in which the defeat parameter value of said enemy character has been offset.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minehiro Nagata, Yoshiki Watabe
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Publication number: 20160089604Abstract: If a carryover condition has been satisfied such that the attacks against an enemy character, which are carried out by the player character in a first battle scene against the enemy character that appears in said first battle scene, can be extended to other enemy characters, the carryover processing module sequentially executes a process that uses a first attack value generated as a result of the player character's attacks against the enemy character in the first battle scene to offset defeat parameter values required to defeat enemy characters configured in each of the enemy characters appearing in each battle scene provided subsequent to said first battle scene, skips the appearance of the enemy characters whose defeat parameter values have been reduced to zero and, additionally, causes the subsequently appearing enemy character to appear in a state in which the defeat parameter value of said enemy character has been offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Minehiro NAGATA, Yoshiki WATABE
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Patent number: 9176925Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a game program, the game program causing a computer to execute a process, including: an event occurrence process to cause occurrence of an event for allowing a player to obtain an item; an occurrence count acquisition process to acquire the number of times the event has occurred; a number determination process to determine the number of other players different from the player based on the number of times the event has occurred; and a consecutive event occurrence process to cause an event for allowing players to obtain an item to occur in a consecutive manner after the event for allowing the player to obtain the item, the number of the players being the determined number or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: DeNa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Patent number: 9120022Abstract: A game control server apparatus connected to terminal devices of a plurality of players via a network, includes a developing stage management unit that determines, in a developing stage in which a common character commonly owned by a plurality of players in a same team is developed, a capability parameter of the common character based on an action of each of the plurality of players; and a team battle stage management unit that provides, in a team battle stage in which one team battles against another team, a common character in a team battle while setting a capability parameter of the common character to the capability parameter of the common character determined by the developing stage management unit, upon accepting a calling instruction from a player in the one team.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Patent number: 9033804Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other of the plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of an event for the target player based on a winning probability parameter of the target player indicating a probability of the target player winning the game determined based on player information of the target player and the players associated with the target player.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20150080132Abstract: A game control server apparatus connected to terminal devices of a plurality of players via a network, includes a developing stage management unit that determines, in a developing stage in which a common character commonly owned by a plurality of players in a same team is developed, a capability parameter of the common character based on an action of each of the plurality of players; and a team battle stage management unit that provides, in a team battle stage in which one team battles against another team, a common character in a team battle while setting a capability parameter of the common character to the capability parameter of the common character determined by the developing stage management unit, upon accepting a calling instruction from a player in the one team.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki ABE, Minehiro NAGATA
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Publication number: 20140113730Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium non-transitorily storing a game program for causing a computer that includes a processor and a memory to execute a game played by a player using a game content for which a parameter that can be increased to an upper limit value is set, the game program causing the computer to perform the following processes: an offer process of offering the player with the game content; a recording process of recording the offered game content as an owned game content that the player owns; and an upper limit setting process of selecting one owned game content and another owned game content set to the same type as the one owned game content from among a plurality of owned game contents that the player owns, and re-setting an upper limit value of a parameter set for the one owned game content to a new upper limit value by combining the one owned game content with the other owned game content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo TAKAGI, Takehiro KUSANO, Satoshi SEKIGUCHI, Wataru TAKAHASHI, Yuuki ABE, Minehiro NAGATA
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Publication number: 20140073436Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of a predetermined event, manages an event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines whether a specific event is already generated for the target player and the players associated with the target player by referring to the event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines, based on the determined result, an event to be generated for the target player.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo TAKAGI, Takehiro KUSANO, Satoshi SEKIGUCHI, Wataru TAKAHASHI, Yuuki ABE, Minehiro NAGATA
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Patent number: 8608572Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of a predetermined event, manages an event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines whether a specific event is already generated for the target player and the players associated with the target player by referring to the event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines, based on the determined result, an event to be generated for the target player.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20130324265Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a game program, the game program causing a computer to execute a process, including: an event occurrence process to cause occurrence of an event for allowing a player to obtain an item; an occurrence count acquisition process to acquire the number of times the event has occurred; a number determination process to determine the number of other players different from the player based on the number of times the event has occurred; and a consecutive event occurrence process to cause an event for allowing players to obtain an item to occur in a consecutive manner after the event for allowing the player to obtain the item, the number of the players being the determined number or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20130324256Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other of the plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of an event for the target player based on a winning probability parameter of the target player indicating a probability of the target player winning the game determined based on player information of the target player and the players associated with the target player.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20130324255Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of a predetermined event, manages an event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines whether a specific event is already generated for the target player and the players associated with the target player by referring to the event generation status for each of the target player and the players associated with the target player, determines, based on the determined result, an event to be generated for the target player.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo TAKAGI, Takehiro KUSANO, Satoshi SEKIGUCHI, Wataru TAKAHASHI, Yuuki ABE, Minehiro NAGATA
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Publication number: 20130324266Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium non-transitorily storing a game program for causing a computer that includes a processor and a memory to execute a game played by a player using a game content for which a parameter that can be increased to an upper limit value is set, the game program causing the computer to perform the following processes: an offer process of offering the player with the game content; a recording process of recording the offered game content as an owned game content that the player owns; and an upper limit setting process of selecting one owned game content and another owned game content set to the same type as the one owned game content from among a plurality of owned game contents that the player owns, and re-setting an upper limit value of a parameter set for the one owned game content to a new upper limit value by combining the one owned game content with the other owned game content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: DENA CO., LTD.Inventors: YUZO TAKAGI, TAKEHIRO KUSANO, SATOSHI SEKIGUCHI, WATARU TAKAHASHI, YUUKI ABE, MINEHIRO NAGATA
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Patent number: 8585508Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium non-transitorily storing a game program for causing a computer that includes a processor and a memory to execute a game played by a player using a game content for which a parameter that can be increased to an upper limit value is set, the game program causing the computer to perform the following processes: an offer process of offering the player with the game content; a recording process of recording the offered game content as an owned game content that the player owns; and an upper limit setting process of selecting one owned game content and another owned game content set to the same type as the one owned game content from among a plurality of owned game contents that the player owns, and re-setting an upper limit value of a parameter set for the one owned game content to a new upper limit value by combining the one owned game content with the other owned game content.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata