Patents by Inventor Shinpei KIWADA

Shinpei KIWADA 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).

  • Patent number: 10940394
    Abstract: In an exemplary game device, a first communication game unit enables a first user to play a game with a second user via near field communication. A second communication game unit enables the first user to play a game with a third user via Internet communication. A display control unit displays a screen showing information on the second user, the first user having played a game with the second user using the first communication game unit, and information on the third user, the first user having played a game with the third user using the second communication game unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinpei Kiwada, Xizhou Xu
  • Patent number: 10652157
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system includes an information processing terminal and a server configured to communicate with the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal starts an application in accordance with an instruction of a user and transmits identification information of the started application to the server. The server stores specifying information for specifying, from among a plurality of contents, a content or a group of contents as a target to be transmitted to the information processing terminal, in association with identification information of an application. The server receives identification information from the information processing terminal and selects, from the stored specifying information, specifying information associated with the identification information received from the information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Yamashita, Yoji Kamikawa, Takashi Hosoi, Yusuke Inoue, Masahiro Yoshino, Shinpei Kiwada
  • Patent number: 10500501
    Abstract: In an exemplary game device, a requesting unit requests establishment of a friendship using one of plural methods, the friendship being a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users. A display control unit causes a display unit to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested by the requesting unit, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinpei Kiwada, Takahiro Kawahara, Kenichi Takemoto, Xizhou Xu
  • Publication number: 20180367628
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system includes an information processing terminal and a server configured to communicate with the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal starts an application in accordance with an instruction of a user and transmits identification information of the started application to the server. The server stores specifying information for specifying, from among a plurality of contents, a content or a group of contents as a target to be transmitted to the information processing terminal, in association with identification information of an application. The server receives identification information from the information processing terminal and selects, from the stored specifying information, specifying information associated with the identification information received from the information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshikazu YAMASHITA, Yoji KAMIKAWA, Takashi HOSOI, Yusuke INOUE, Masahiro YOSHINO, Shinpei KIWADA
  • Publication number: 20180193753
    Abstract: In an exemplary game device, a requesting unit requests establishment of a friendship using one of plural methods, the friendship being a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users. A display control unit causes a display unit to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested by the requesting unit, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Shinpei KIWADA, Takahiro KAWAHARA, Kenichi TAKEMOTO, Xizhou XU
  • Publication number: 20180193741
    Abstract: In an exemplary game device, a first communication game unit enables a first user to play a game with a second user via near field communication. A second communication game unit enables the first user to play a game with a third user via Internet communication. A display control unit displays a screen showing information on the second user, the first user having played a game with the second user using the first communication game unit, and information on the third user, the first user having played a game with the third user using the second communication game unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Shinpei KIWADA, Xizhou XU