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US 12,350,580 · App. 18/480,759 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Medium, game event processing system, and method

Inventor: Youichiro Miyake (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
A63F13/216A63F13/44A63F13/45A63F13/69A63F13/847
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Patent No.
US 12,350,580
App. No.
18/480,759
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an information processing apparatus, position information is obtained with respect to each of a plurality of players, a group made up of the plurality of players is created, and event data of a game event that can be played by the group, the event data including one or a plurality of individual conditions to be satisfied by a player, is generated based on the position information of the players.

Claims (33)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program that, when executed, causes a processor to execute:

obtaining position information of a plurality of players;

creating a group of the plurality of players based on the position information; and

generating event data to the group by using data for event data generation selected based on a first degree of coincidence between attribute information of the event data and attribute information of the group, the event data corresponding to an event that includes a plurality of sub-events to be assigned as tasks to the players of the group; and

assigning the sub-events of the event that corresponds to the generated event data to respective players of the group based on a second degree of coincidence between attribute information of the sub-events and attribute information of the respective players.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the event data includes one or more individual conditions of the sub-events to be satisfied by the respective players of the group.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein the event data includes combinations of the one or more individual conditions, and the combinations are different among the respective players of the group.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein the one or more individual conditions include a designated location.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 4 , wherein the one or more individual conditions include a designated item at the designated location.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 4 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to further execute changing the designated location based on an event elapsed time or an event remaining time and present position information of the respective players of the group.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein the one or more individual conditions include a designated rendezvous point.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute detecting achievement of the one or more individual conditions.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute, when the one or more individual conditions are not satisfied within a predetermined time, changing at least one of the one or more individual conditions and another individual condition.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein the event data further includes one or more group conditions to be satisfied by the group.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 10 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute detecting achievement of the one or more group conditions and the one or more individual conditions.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute, when the one or more individual conditions are not satisfied within a predetermined time, changing at least one of the one or more group conditions, the one or more individual conditions, and another individual condition.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute obtaining information on a region associated with a position indicated by the position information.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute changing contents of the event data based on an event elapsed time or an event remaining time and present position information of the respective players of the group.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the processor to execute selecting players to be included in the group based on the position information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein using the data for event data generation includes selecting data for event data generation among a plurality of data for event data generation to generate the event data having the attribute information of a higher degree of coincidence with the attribution information of the group.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the data for event data generation includes at least one of an individual condition, a group condition, and a content.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the attribute information of the event data or the attribute information of the group includes a positional relationship among the players of the group.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program that, when executed on a terminal apparatus used by a player of a group including a plurality of players, causes the terminal apparatus to execute:

obtaining position information of the terminal apparatus as position information of the player; and

notifying one or more actions to be taken by respective players of the group to satisfy one or more individual conditions included in event data, wherein the event data corresponds to an event that includes a plurality of sub-events to be assigned as tasks to the players of the group, the sub-events include the one or more actions, the event data is generated to the group by using data for event data generation selected based on a degree of coincidence between attribute information of the event data and attribute information of the group, and the sub-events of the event that corresponds to the generated event data are assigned to the respective players of the group based on a second degree of coincidence between attribute information of the sub-events and attribute information of the respective players.

20. An event processing system, comprising:

a terminal apparatus configured to be used by a player; and

an information processing apparatus configured to manage a group of a plurality of players, wherein

the event processing system comprises a processor to execute:

obtaining position information of the plurality of players;

creating the group of the plurality of players based on the position information; and

generating event data to the group by using data for event data generation selected based on a first degree of coincidence between attribute information of the event data and attribute information of the group, the event data corresponding to an event that includes a plurality of sub-events to be assigned as tasks to the players of the group; and

assigning the sub-events of the event that corresponds to the generated event data to respective players of the group based on a second degree of coincidence between attribute information of the sub-events and attribute information of the respective players.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2023
From: MIYAKE, YOUICHIRO
To: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065121/0716 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-185396 · Nov 5, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17453708 · Nov 5, 2021
Related Publication 20240082696A1 · Mar 14, 2024
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