Patents by Inventor Koji Kitaura

Koji Kitaura 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).

  • Game system, game system control method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 8465369
    Abstract: A network game system includes a substitution management portion that, when a mid-competition player requests to substitute that player's game operations to a spectator, performs management of a substitution process in which the terminal device of that player is set as a spectating terminal, and the terminal device of the spectator is set as a competing terminal, wherein the spectator who has been substituted for that player by the substitution management portion executes the game operations of that player by operating the terminal device of the spectator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Dokei, Osamu Maruyama, Hiroaki Kinno, Koji Kitaura, Masafumi Yoshida
  • Game system, game system control method, and recording medium
    Publication number: 20110263333
    Abstract: A network game system includes a substitution management portion that, when a mid-competition player requests to substitute that player's game operations to a spectator, performs management of a substitution process in which the terminal device of that player is set as a spectating terminal, and the terminal device of the spectator is set as a competing terminal, wherein the spectator who has been substituted for that player by the substitution management portion executes the game operations of that player by operating the terminal device of the spectator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Dokei, Osamu Maruyama, Hiroaki Kinno, Koji Kitaura, Masafumi Yoshida