IP Library Granted Patent US 12,337,243
Granted Patent B2
US 12,337,243 · App. 17/808,757 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Information storage medium, information processing device, and method for controlling information processing device

Inventors: Wataru Konishi (Tokyo, JP); Takashi Fujita (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
A63F13/795A63F13/86
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Patent No.
US 12,337,243
App. No.
17/808,757
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a program, an information processing device, and a method for controlling the information processing device that are capable of improving an interface environment for a game in which players fight a battle against each other. Provided is a watching function that allows setting of a watching right concerning a battle between players belonging to a battle group in response to a request from the terminal of a player serving as an organizer and that allows the battle between the players to be watched according to the setting content about the watching right. A watching right setting unit can set a watching right with which a battle between players belonging to the battle group cannot be watched at a terminal of a player who is neither the organizer nor the players fighting the battle but can be watched through the terminal of the player registered as an organizer.

Claims (36)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium storing a program that is executable by a computer, the program comprising instructions to perform a method comprising:

generating, in response to a request from a first terminal of a first player serving as an organizer, a battle group in which said first player is registered as the organizer;

registering, in response to requests from a plurality of terminals of a plurality of players different from the organizer, said plurality of players in the battle group;

displaying, using a graphical user interface on the first terminal, a competition information setting screen configured to receive a plurality of different inputs from the organizer using an input unit for a plurality of settings of a computer game,

wherein the plurality of different inputs comprise a first input for changing a watch setting of a second player among the plurality of players for the computer game;

granting, in response to receiving the first input from the first terminal of the first player serving as the organizer and using a server, a watching right to the second player concerning a battle between the plurality of players belonging to the battle group,

wherein the watching right enables a watch application on a second terminal among the plurality of terminals to view the computer game;

executing, using the server, the computer game among the plurality of players in the battle group fighting the battle against each other player among the plurality of players; and

providing a watching function using the watch application that allows the battle between the plurality of players to be watched by the second player according to the watching right,

wherein the watch setting is further changed to disable watching of the computer game by the second terminal of the second player and enable watching through the first terminal of the first player registered as the organizer.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1 ,

wherein information concerning game media used by a third player serving as an opponent is not disclosed at the plurality of terminals of the plurality of players fighting the battle, and

wherein the watching function provides that the battle between the plurality of players can be watched at the second terminal of the second player having the watching right,

said second terminal disclosing the information concerning the game media not disclosed to the plurality of players fighting the battle against each other.

3. An information processing device, comprising:

a computer processor; and

a memory connected to the computer processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to perform a method comprising:

generating, in response to a request from a first terminal of a first player serving as an organizer, a battle group in which said first player is registered as the organizer;

registering, in response to requests from a plurality of terminals of a plurality of players different from the organizer, said plurality of players in the battle group;

displaying, using a graphical user interface on the first terminal, a competition information setting screen configured to receive a plurality of different inputs from the organizer using an input unit for a plurality of settings of a computer game,

wherein the plurality of different inputs comprise a first input for changing a watch setting of a second player among the plurality of players for the computer game;

granting, in response to receiving the first input from the first terminal of the first player serving as the organizer and using a server, a watching right to the second player concerning a battle between the plurality of players belonging to the battle group,

wherein the watching right enables a watch application on a second terminal among the plurality of terminals to view the computer game;

executing, using a server, the computer game among the plurality of players in the battle group fighting the battle against each other player among the plurality of players; and

providing a watching function using the watch application that allows the battle between the plurality of players to be watched by the second player according to the watching right,

wherein the watch setting is further changed to disable watching of the computer game by the second terminal of the second player and enable watching through the first terminal of the first player registered as the organizer.

4. A method comprising:

generating, in response to a request from a first terminal of a first player serving as an organizer, a battle group in which said first player is registered as the organizer;

registering, in response to requests from a plurality of terminals of a plurality of players different from the organizer, said plurality of players in the battle group;

displaying, using a graphical user interface on the first terminal, a competition information setting screen configured to receive a plurality of different inputs from the organizer using an input unit for a plurality of settings of a computer game,

wherein the plurality of different inputs comprise a first input for changing a watch setting of a second player among the plurality of players for the computer game;

granting, in response to receiving the first input from the first terminal of the first player serving as the organizer and using a server, a watching right to the second player concerning a battle between the plurality of players belonging to the battle group,

wherein the watching right enables a watch application on a second terminal among the plurality of terminals to view the computer game;

executing, using a server, the computer game among the plurality of players in the battle group fighting the battle against each other player among the plurality of players; and

providing a watching function using the watch application that allows the battle between the plurality of players to be watched by the second player according to the watching right,

wherein the watch setting is further changed to disable watching of the computer game by the second terminal of the second player and enable watching through the first terminal of the first player registered as the organizer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 28, 2025
From: KONISHI, WATARU; FUJITA, TAKASHI
To: CYGAMES, INC.
Reel/Frame 071240/0768 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-236098 · Dec 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2020047110 · Dec 17, 2020
Related Publication 20220314127A1 · Oct 6, 2022
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