Patents by Inventor Chikara Saitou

Chikara Saitou 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).

  • Publication number: 20220331697
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a video game processing program for causing a server to perform functions to control progress of a video game according to an operation of a player is provided. The functions comprise: ejecting an object from a position corresponding to the player in a virtual space based on the operation of the player; determining whether to update a degree of uplift of a predetermined region based on a positional relation between the ejected object and the predetermined region in the virtual space referring to storage storing uplift information related to the degree of uplift of the predetermined region and updating the uplift information according to a first update rule related to the object and the predetermined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chikara SAITOU
  • Patent number: 4839798
    Abstract: In a computer network system having a plurality of on-line connected computer systems, each computer system has means to monitor the amount of jobs of its own computer system. Each computer system requests a job to another computer system when the amount of jobs of its own computer system is in short, and the requested computer system transfers a job to the requesting computer system if the amount of jobs of the requested computer system is enough. Each computer system also requests transfer-out of a job to another computer system when the amount of jobs of its own computer system is over, and the requested computer system accepts the request if the amount of jobs of its own computer system is not full, and the requesting computer system transfers the job to the accepting computer system. In this manner, loads to the computer systems are distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Eguchi, Norio Yamada, Itaru Kusuyama, Chikara Saitou