Patents by Inventor Toru NAGIHASHI

Toru NAGIHASHI 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: 10594761
    Abstract: An application execution section executes an application that is executable without communicating with a server system. An other user information obtaining section obtains, from the server system, information of another user who has accessed disclosed information of a user of an information processing system, which disclosed information is present on the server system. The application execution section adds a change to execution of the application, based on the information of the another user which is obtained by the other user information obtaining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Shimoyamada, Toru Nagihashi
  • Patent number: 9999832
    Abstract: A first game execution unit executes a first game. A second game execution unit executes a second game. The second game execution unit sets particular first game data or a first game mode which is accessible in the first game so as to be inaccessible in the second game when an execution result of the first game does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and sets the particular first game data or the first game mode so as to be accessible also in the second game in response to the execution result of the first game having satisfied the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Game Freak, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ohmori, Toru Nagihashi
  • Publication number: 20130281216
    Abstract: In a game in which a game character in a game world is trained, a passerby corresponding to another player is caused to appear in a shopping center in the game world, in response to that other player information is received from an information processing apparatus owned by the another player. Further, a facility such as a training facility that trains the game character on behalf of the player appears in the shopping center, in response to that a player character operated by the player persuades the passerby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyuki SHIMOYAMADA, Toru NAGIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130281200
    Abstract: A first game execution unit executes a first game. A second game execution unit executes a second game. The second game execution unit sets particular first game data or a first game mode which is accessible in the first game so as to be inaccessible in the second game when an execution result of the first game does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and sets the particular first game data or the first game mode so as to be accessible also in the second game in response to the execution result of the first game having satisfied the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicants: GAME FREAK, INC., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru OHMORI, Toru NAGIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130282861
    Abstract: An application execution section executes an application that is executable without communicating with a server system. An other user information obtaining section obtains, from the server system, information of another user who has accessed disclosed information of a user of an information processing system, which disclosed information is present on the server system. The application execution section adds a change to execution of the application, based on the information of the another user which is obtained by the other user information obtaining section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyuki SHIMOYAMADA, Toru NAGIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130281185
    Abstract: In a game system including a single or a plurality of game apparatuses, a first game execution unit executes a first game in accordance with an instruction of a player inputted via an input unit. A second game execution unit executes a second game in accordance with an instruction of the player inputted via the input unit. The second game execution unit sets a new game mode of a first degree of difficulty so as to be accessible in the second game in response to an execution result of the first game having satisfied a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Toru NAGIHASHI