IP Library Granted Patent US 7,379,734
Granted Patent B2
US 7,379,734 · App. 10/933,492 · Granted May 27, 2008

Mobile communication terminal, game server and game program

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Patent No.
US 7,379,734
App. No.
10/933,492
Granted
May 27, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile communication terminal includes a wireless communication device for wireless communication, an image displaying device for displaying an image, and a sound outputting device for outputting sound. The mobile communication terminal generates an execution variable that changes progression of a game being played by a user of the mobile communication terminal, through the mobile communication terminal, the execution variable being calculated based, at least in part, on incoming communications history data. The incoming communications history data lists data characterizing each of a number of previous incoming communications to the wireless communication device. The terminal executes the game using the generated execution variable.

Claims (38)

1. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communication device for wireless communication;

an image displaying device for displaying an image;

a sound outputting device for outputting sound;

execution variable generating means for generating an execution variable which changes progression of a game being played by a user of the mobile communication terminal, through the mobile communication terminal, the execution variable being generated by the execution variable generating means in a calculation based, at least in part, on incoming communications history data, the incoming communications history data including time of receipt of each incoming communication and an identifying number of each communication to the wireless communication device; and

game executing means for executing the game using the execution variable generated by the execution variable generating means to control progression of the game.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising:

incoming communications history data storing means for storing the incoming communications history data; and

extracting means for extracting incoming conununications history data which satisfy a predetermined condition from the incoming communications history data stored in the incoming communications history data storing means, wherein the execution variable generating means generates the execution variable using the incoming communications history data extracted by the extracting means.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the execution variable generating means generates the execution variable using a plurality of variables, at least one of which varies randomly.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the game executing means includes:

generating means for generating, using the execution variable, fortune telling data indicating a fortune; and

changing means for generating an instruction to change the displaying of an image on the image displaying device or a sound output by the sound outputting device, using the fortune telling data generated by the generating means.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein said game executing means includes:

generating means for generating, using the execution variable, raising data for determining growth of an object to be raised; and

changing means for generating an instruction to change the displaying of an image on the image displaying device using the raising data generated by the generating means.

6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 2 , further comprising standby image changing means for changing the displaying of images on the image displaying device during a standby state, while waiting for an incoming communication, using the incoming conmunications history data that has been extracted.

7. A game server supplying a game to a mobile communication terminal connected to the game server via the Internet, the game server comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring incoming communications history data, the incoming communications history data including time of receipt of each incoming communication and an identifying number of each communication to the wireless communication device;

extracting means for extracting incoming communications history data satisfying a predetermined condition from the incoming communications history data acquired by the acquiring means;

execution variable generating means for generating an execution variable which changes progression of a game being played by a user of the mobile communication terminal, through the mobile communication terminal, the execution variable being generated by a calculation based, at least in part, on the incoming communications history data extracted by the extracting means; and

supplying means for executing the game using the execution variable generated by the execution variable generating means, and for supplying results of the execution to the mobile communication terminal.

8. A method for executing a game in a mobile communication terminal that includes a wireless communication device for wireless communication, an image displaying device for displaying an image, and a sound outputting device for outputting sound, the method comprising:

extracting incoming communications history data which satisfy a predetermined condition from incoming communications history data, the incoming communications history data being data including time of receipt of an each incoming communication and identifying number of each communication to the wireless communication device;

generating an execution variable which changes progression of a game being played by a user of the mobile communication terminal, through the mobile communication terminal, the execution variable being generated by a calculation based, at least in part, on the incoming communications history data; and

executing the game using the execution variable generated.

9. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the incoming communications history data further includes at least one of:

telephone number of the caller of the incoming telephone call,

whether the incoming telephone call came from an overseas telephone, a cellular telephone, or a public telephone, and

whether the telephone number of the incoming telephone call is hidden.

10. The game server according to claim 7 , wherein the incoming communications history data further includes at least one of

telephone number of the caller of the incoming telephone call,

whether the incoming telephone call came from an overseas telephone, a cellular telephone, or a public telephone, and

whether the telephone number of the incoming telephone call is hidden.

11. The method for executing a game according to claim 8 , wherein the incoming communications history data further includes at least one of:

telephone number of the caller of the incoming telephone call,

whether the incoming telephone call came from an overseas telephone, a cellular telephone, or a public telephone, and

whether the telephone number of an incoming telephone call is hidden.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 23, 2009
From: ARUZE CORPORATION (ARUZE KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
To: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023691/0877 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2004
From: SATO, KAZUNOBU
To: ARUZE CORP.
Reel/Frame 015392/0581 →