Abstract: A touch-pressure detection unit detects a touch pressure that changes according to a degree of a touch operation on a display surface of a display unit. An interrupt necessity determination unit determines whether or not an interrupt is necessary on the basis of a change period and change amount of the touch pressure. In the case where an interrupt is unnecessary, the ratchet function output unit inputs the touch pressure to a predetermined ratchet function, and provides an output value of the ratchet function to a game-character-action-amount determination unit. The game-character-action-amount determination unit determines a movement speed of the game character C according to the output value of the ratchet function.

Abstract: A display control unit executes control to display images requested to be rendered, including effects in a plurality of formats and of a plurality of kinds according to rendering requests, on a display medium via a GPU by using effect data in which the amounts of data have been reduced in accordance with the rendering frequencies of the effects. Specifically, the display control unit determines the amount of data to be reduced for an effect in a format and of a kind according to a rendering request in accordance with the rendering frequency of the effect, extracts the effect data in which data has been reduced by the amount of data from effect-data storage DBs, and provides the effect data to the GPU.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to establish, in new countermeasure technologies against the acts of tampering with or otherwise interfering with operation histories, a method that works effectively even in the case where a tampering detection method has become known to the public or in the case where program code for executing detection itself has been tampered with. A vibration-information obtaining unit 111 obtains, from a player terminal 1, vibration history information representing a time series of the results of detection by a vibration detecting unit 31 of the player terminal 1. An operation-information obtaining unit 113 obtains, from the player terminal 1, operation history information representing a time series of the results of detection by a touch-operation input unit 26 of the player terminal 1.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium contains a program for a portable terminal including a touchscreen having a first area for selecting a command and a second area in which objects are displayed. The program causes a computer to store command information indicating associations between commands and objects that may serve as targets of the commands regarding a plurality of commands in relation to a plurality of objects, store position information indicating displayed positions of the individual objects in the second area, select the command based on a state in which an operation is being performed with a first finger of a user in the first area, and define, based on the command information and the position information, an area corresponding to the display position of an object that may serve as a target of the selected command in the second area as an area in which an operation is acceptable.

Abstract: A system according to the present invention includes a server and electronic devices and, in this system, characters operated by players are placed in a common game field and the game progresses. The system determines a movement start position and a movement target position for moving an NPC, determines, on the basis of history information of global movement paths represented by orders of positions of log blocks from the movement start position to the movement target position of a player character that is operated by players, a global movement path having the highest frequency at which the global movement path is selected by the players, determines a path from the determined movement start position or a sub-destination position to a sub-destination position in the next log block or to the determined movement target position on the determined global movement path, and moves the NPC according to the determined path.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for rendering a character for games. In some examples, a method performed under control of a game server may include calculating a level of detail (LOD) for a first character positioned in a same virtual game space as a second character, based at least in part on a calculated degree of closeness between the first character and the second character; and controlling a display definition of the first character based at least in part on the calculated LOD.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for implementing an information rendering scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of an end device may include obtaining a decryption key; decrypting encrypted information based on the obtained decryption key; and rendering the decrypted information stored in a video random access memory (VRAM) that is operatively connected to a graphic processing unit (GPU) of the end device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program that causes an electronic device including a display unit and a processing unit to execute selecting, as candidate objects, objects related to game events from among objects to be rendered on the display unit; determining attention scores representing the degrees of attention that will be paid by a player to the individual selected candidate objects by determining weights relating to the occurrence of individual candidate events, which are events related to the candidate objects, on the basis of the candidate objects, an event or a sequence of events that occurred immediately before, and event history information; and determining resource allocation in the processing unit for rendering the individual candidate objects on the basis of the attention scores and depth distances of the candidate objects as viewed from the player.

Abstract: A player terminal displays a list including a plurality of candidate stamps and sends a stamp selected therefrom by a player to another player terminal. A stamp-metadata management unit of a server manages each of the plurality of candidate stamps in association with metadata indicating a certain situation in a game. A stamp-display-order determining unit controls the listing order for displaying the plurality of stamps on the player terminal on the basis of individual correlations between the plurality of metadata individually associated with the plurality of candidate stamps and situation data indicating a current situation in the game being executed. A metadata updating unit updates the content of the metadata for each of the plurality of candidate stamps on the basis of the result of selection of an item to send by the player.

Abstract: Technologies and implementations for reducing congestion in a network are generally disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is a program for causing an electronic device having a display unit and a contact-type position input unit to execute displaying a screen including objects associated with events on the display unit; detecting, in the case where a touch on the contact-type position input unit is detected and two or more objects are located within a predetermined distance from the detected touched coordinates; selecting candidate objects in the case where the touch is detected, the candidate objects being the two or more objects located within the predetermined distance from the detected touched coordinates; determining weights relating to the occurrence of individual candidate events, the candidate events being events associated with the individual selected candidate objects, on the basis of the candidate events, a sequence of events executed immediately before, and event history information; and executing or presenting the candidate event having the highest weight.

Abstract: A ranking rank identification unit identifies a rank of a participant for each of a plurality of kinds of ranking criteria. A predicted rank calculation unit of a ranking criterion recommendation unit calculates predicted ranks for at least some of the plurality of kinds of ranking criteria for the case where a subject player participates in the individual ranking criteria. A recommended ranking criterion determination unit determines, as recommended ranking criteria, ranking criteria to be recommended to the subject player on the basis of the predicted ranks. A recommendation result presentation unit presents the recommended ranking criteria to the player terminal of the subject player.

Abstract: In some examples, a method for managing service requests to a cloud computing system is described. The method may include receiving a service response from a cloud computing system in reply to a service request generated by a process executed on a computing device. The method may also include extracting processing capacity information of the cloud computing system from the service response. The method may also include determining an execution priority for the process based at least in part on the processing capacity information.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for a user interface system configured to detect a user's action. In various examples, an electronic device operable by a user may include an annular sensor and a processor. The annular sensor may be configured to detect a touch input. The processor may be operatively coupled to the annular sensor, and configured to determine an action by the user that corresponds to the touch input.

Abstract: A history-information obtaining unit obtains operation history information from a plurality of player terminals. A feature-information generating unit generates, for each of a plurality of players, feature information representing a feature of operation in the form of a certain weighted value obtained from the operation history information. A clustering unit clusters the plurality of players on the basis of the individual feature information of the plurality of players. An other-player-information sending control unit executes control so as to send information about other players belonging to the same group to the individual player terminals of the clustered plurality of players, while prohibiting sending of information about other players belonging to other groups.

Abstract: At a server, a load monitoring unit monitors whether or not a predetermined condition regarding processing of requests is satisfied. In the case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied, a wait-time calculating unit calculates a wait time as a time parameter for controlling the speed of time flow at a player terminal side. A request executing unit executes requests in the order of arrival and generates responses. A response sending control unit executes control to send responses to the player terminals that have sent the corresponding requests and to also send to the player terminals information representing the wait time in the case where the wait time has been calculated.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for constructing an ad-hoc social network. In some examples, a method performed under control of an end device may include calculating a social relevance on a social graph between the end device and another end device, based on a social graph bit array of the end device and a social graph bit array of the other end device; determining that the calculated social relevance is greater than a predetermined threshold value; and constructing an ad-hoc social network that connects the end device with the other end device.

Abstract: A card has a plurality of contact points attached on the same face thereof, the plurality of contact points being detectable by a detecting method for a touchscreen. In the case where the card is placed on the touchscreen, a recognition unit recognizes a kind of the card and a relative position and orientation of the card relative to the touchscreen on the basis of at least some of the plurality of contact points detected by the touchscreen. On the basis of the results of recognition by the recognition unit, a determining unit determines a relevant image to be displayed on the touchscreen and determines a size, position, and orientation for displaying the relevant image on the touchscreen.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for rendering a character for games. In some examples, a method performed under control of a game server may include calculating a level of detail (LOD) for a first character positioned in a same virtual game space as a second character, based at least in part on a calculated degree of closeness between the first character and the second character; and controlling a display definition of the first character based at least in part on the calculated LOD.

Abstract: Briefly stated, technologies are generally described for controlling a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), using a user-interface (UI) selection unit, an action log unit, a pattern detector unit and/or an artificial intelligence (AI) player unit. In various examples, a system is described, where the system may be configured to control the action log unit to record logs of a user's actions input through a UI and associate the actions with status information of the user's character and opponent characters in the MMORPG. The system may control the pattern detector unit to extract correlation rules for the status information and the associated actions. The AI player unit may control a substitute player for the user based on the correlation rules, such that the substitute player can automatically reproduce actions of the user.