Patents by Inventor Toshitaka INUKAI

Toshitaka INUKAI 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).

  • INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210304324
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communications between users in a community service within a virtual space, and provides an information processing method, a program, and an information processing device which facilitate activating communities through the mediation of a virtual user. In this method, users including an administrator user and a plurality of general users are associated with a virtual user for supporting the users in a community. The method includes the steps, executed by a computer, of generating an event associated with the administrator user and a first general user; and in response to the generated event, causing the virtual user to generate prompt content for prompting a second general user to communicate with the first general user, and supply the prompt content to the second general user in the community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FiNC Technologies inc.
    Inventors: Yuji MIZOGUCHI, Takuma Alexander KUBOTA, Toshitaka INUKAI
  • Computer and method for game control
    Patent number: 10957149
    Abstract: A server apparatus provides a game which accompanies a resource increasing or decreasing in a game space to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network. The server apparatus collects and accumulates the resources from the plurality of terminal apparatuses in the first mode and releases the accumulated resource in the second mode. The server apparatus selectively switches between the first mode and the second mode so as to distribute the resources upon reception of a request from a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Toshitaka Inukai
  • COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR GAME CONTROL
    Publication number: 20190080555
    Abstract: A server apparatus provides a game which accompanies a resource increasing or decreasing in a game space to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network. The server apparatus collects and accumulates the resources from the plurality of terminal apparatuses in the first mode and releases the accumulated resource in the second mode. The server apparatus selectively switches between the first mode and the second mode so as to distribute the resources upon reception of a request from a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventor: Toshitaka INUKAI
  • COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR GAME CONTROL
    Publication number: 20170103605
    Abstract: A server apparatus provides a game which accompanies a resource increasing or decreasing in a game space to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network. The server apparatus collects and accumulates the resources from the plurality of terminal apparatuses in the first mode and releases the accumulated resource in the second mode. The server apparatus selectively switches between the first mode and the second mode so as to distribute the resources upon reception of a request from a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshitaka INUKAI
  • Computer and method for game control
    Patent number: 9569918
    Abstract: A server apparatus provides a game which accompanies a resource increasing or decreasing in a game space to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network. The server apparatus collects and accumulates the resources from the plurality of terminal apparatuses in the first mode and releases the accumulated resource in the second mode. The server apparatus selectively switches between the first mode and the second mode so as to distribute the resources upon reception of a request from a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshitaka Inukai
  • COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR GAME CONTROL
    Publication number: 20140309026
    Abstract: A server apparatus provides a game which accompanies a resource increasing or decreasing in a game space to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network. The server apparatus collects and accumulates the resources from the plurality of terminal apparatuses in the first mode and releases the accumulated resource in the second mode. The server apparatus selectively switches between the first mode and the second mode so as to distribute the resources upon reception of a request from a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshitaka INUKAI