Patents by Inventor Yuji Ukai

Yuji Ukai 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: 9573061
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Ukai, Naoto Yoshie, Tomoyuki Ono
  • Publication number: 20160144276
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a game content appearance module that determines a game content object, selected from among multiple game content objects based on the appearance probability associated with each one of the multiple game content objects, to be an appearing game content object that appears to a player; an appearance probability variation module that varies the appearance probability, when a specifying operation used to specify a game content object from among the multiple game content objects is performed by the player, so as to increase or decrease the frequency at which the specified game content object is determined to be an appearing game content object; and a parameter configuration module that configures the parameters of the specified game content object depending on whether the frequency of determination of said game content object as an appearing game content object is increased or decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Takahiro OTOMO
  • Patent number: 9333428
    Abstract: A server device connected with a player terminal used by a player when performing a game operation over a network includes: a rental unit; a providing unit; a storage unit configured to store player information in which the rental game content rented from the rental unit is set as game content temporarily possessed by the player, and the game content provided by the providing unit is set as game content possessed by the player; a parameter varying unit; a game content determination unit; a parameter setting unit configured to set a parameter of the game content based on a parameter of the rental game content varied by the parameter varying unit; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether a return condition of the rental game content is satisfied; and an update unit configured to update the player information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Hashimoto, Yuji Ukai, Naoto Yoshie
  • Publication number: 20160104349
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Naoto YOSHIE, Tomoyuki ONO
  • Patent number: 9241836
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Ukai, Naoto Yoshie, Tomoyuki Ono
  • Publication number: 20150011281
    Abstract: One object is to provide a server device that enables accurate expectation of cost required to acquire a desired game content. In accordance with one aspect, a server device according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a game to one or more players via a network. This server device includes a won game content selecting unit configured to select one or more game contents as first won game contents from the game contents contained in a first deck allocated to a first player of the one or more players, an owned game content information storage unit configured to store the one or more won game contents in association with the first player identification information, and an updating unit configured to update the first deck by clearing the one or more first won game contents from the first deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yuji Kishimoto, Yuji Ukai, Toshinori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8900044
    Abstract: One object is to provide a server device that enables accurate expectation of cost required to acquire a desired game content. In accordance with one aspect, a server device according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a game to one or more players via a network. This server device includes a won game content selecting unit configured to select one or more game contents as first won game contents from the game contents contained in a first deck allocated to a first player of the one or more players, an owned game content information storage unit configured to store the one or more won game contents in association with the first player identification information, and an updating unit configured to update the first deck by clearing the one or more first won game contents from the first deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Kishimoto, Yuji Ukai, Toshinori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140235333
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Naoto Yoshie, Tomoyuki Ono
  • Publication number: 20140206453
    Abstract: A server device connected with a player terminal used by a player when performing a game operation over a network includes: a rental unit; a providing unit; a storage unit configured to store player information in which the rental game content rented from the rental unit is set as game content temporarily possessed by the player, and the game content provided by the providing unit is set as game content possessed by the player; a parameter varying unit; a game content determination unit ; a parameter setting unit configured to set a parameter of the game content based on a parameter of the rental game content varied by the parameter varying unit; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether a return condition of the rental game content is satisfied; and an update unit configured to update the player information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun HASHIMOTO, Yuji UKAI, Naoto YOSHIE
  • Patent number: 8747202
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Ukai, Naoto Yoshie, Tomoyuki Ono
  • Publication number: 20140128164
    Abstract: A server device connected with a player terminal in a manner capable of information communication includes: a storage unit configured to store deck information in which a plurality of game contents held in a deck is set, and group information in which a plurality of groups configured from game contents that serve as selection candidates among the plurality of game contents held in the deck; a providing unit configured to sequentially select the groups according to a selection order set in advance based on the group information, and to provide the player with a game content selected from the game contents that serve as the selection candidates for each sequentially selected group, in response to a request from the player terminal; and an update unit configured to update the deck information so that the game content provided by the providing unit becomes a game content not held in the deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Takahiro EZAKI, Tomoyuki ONO
  • Patent number: 8715091
    Abstract: A server device connected with a player terminal used by a player when performing a game operation over a network includes: a rental unit; a providing unit; a storage unit configured to store player information in which the rental game content rented from the rental unit is set as game content temporarily possessed by the player, and the game content provided by the providing unit is set as game content possessed by the player; a parameter varying unit; a game content determination unit; a parameter setting unit configured to set a parameter of the game content based on a parameter of the rental game content varied by the parameter varying unit; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether a return condition of the rental game content is satisfied; and an update unit configured to update the player information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Hashimoto, Yuji Ukai, Naoto Yoshie
  • Publication number: 20140121026
    Abstract: A server device connected with a player terminal used by a player when performing a game operation over a network includes: a rental unit; a providing unit; a storage unit configured to store player information in which the rental game content rented from the rental unit is set as game content temporarily possessed by the player, and the game content provided by the providing unit is set as game content possessed by the player; a parameter varying unit; a game content determination unit; a parameter setting unit configured to set a parameter of the game content based on a parameter of the rental game content varied by the parameter varying unit; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether a return condition of the rental game content is satisfied; and an update unit configured to update the player information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun HASHIMOTO, Yuji UKAI, Naoto YOSHIE
  • Publication number: 20140057709
    Abstract: The game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform a registering process to register in advance in a storage unit attribute information specified by the player, an offering process to offer the game content to the player, a judgment process to compare the attribute information of the game content offered to the specified attribute information, a combining process to combine the game content offered with another game content to create a combined game content, and a recording process to record in the storage unit the combined game content as the game content owned by the player, without recording in the storage unit the game content offered as the game content owned by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Naoto Yoshie, Tomoyuki Ono
  • Publication number: 20130324209
    Abstract: One object is to provide a server device that enables accurate expectation of cost required to acquire a desired game content. In accordance with one aspect, a server device according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a game to one or more players via a network. This server device includes a won game content selecting unit configured to select one or more game contents as first won game contents from the game contents contained in a first deck allocated to a first player of the one or more players, an owned game content information storage unit configured to store the one or more won game contents in association with the first player identification information, and an updating unit configured to update the first deck by clearing the one or more first won game contents from the first deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: DeNA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Kishimoto, Yuji Ukai, Toshinori Suzuki