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US 10,500,501 B2Granted
Information-processing device, information-processing system, information-processing method, and storage medium
AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinpei Kiwada, Takahiro Kawahara, Kenichi Takemoto, Xizhou Xu
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Abstract
In an exemplary game device, a requesting unit requests establishment of a friendship using one of plural methods, the friendship being a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users. A display control unit causes a display unit to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested by the requesting unit, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established.
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An information-processing device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information-processing device to:
- request establishment of a friendship, as a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users, using one of plural methods;
- cause a display to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established;
- and
- cause the display to further display a list having a plurality of friend requests, each displayed friend request in the plurality of friend requests including at least a user identification, wherein
- each method from the plural methods obtains information for establishing the friendship using different techniques depending upon the method selected, and
- one or more displayed friend requests including a request method displayed in association with the displayed user identification, the request method stored in a database in association with the user identification and indicative of a method by use of which establishment of the friendship has been requested.
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An information-processing system, comprising:
- at least one server;
- and
- at least one information-processing device in communication with the at least one server, the at least one information-processing device having processing circuitry including at least a processor and a memory, the processing circuitry configured to:
- request establishment of a friendship, as a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users, using one of plural methods;
- cause a display to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established;
- and
- cause the display to further display a list having a plurality of friend requests, each displayed friend request in the plurality of friend requests including at least a user identification, wherein
- each method from the plural methods obtains information for establishing the friendship using different techniques depending upon the method selected, and
- one or more displayed friend requests including a request method displayed in association with the displayed user identification, the request method stored in a database in association with the user identification and indicative of a method by use of which establishment of the friendship has been requested.
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An information-processing method carried out by an information-processing device, the method comprising:
- requesting establishment of a friendship, as a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users, using one of plural methods;
- causing a display to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established;
- and
- causing the display to further display a list having a plurality of friend requests including, each displayed friend request in the plurality of friend requests including at least a user identification, wherein
- each method from the plural methods obtains information for establishing the friendship using different techniques depending upon the method selected, and
- one or more displayed friend requests including a request method displayed in association with the displayed user identification, the request method stored in a database in association with the user identification and indicative of a method by use of which establishment of the friendship has been requested.
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A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
- requesting establishment of a friendship, as a relationship established based on a mutual agreement between users, using one of plural methods;
- causing a display to display one of a request method by which establishment of the friendship has been requested, and an establishing method by which the friendship has been established;
- and
- causing the display to further display a list having a plurality of friend requests, each displayed friend request in the plurality of friend requests including at least a user identification, wherein
- each method from the plural methods obtains information for establishing the friendship using different techniques depending upon the method selected, and
- one or more displayed friend requests including a request method displayed in association with the displayed user identification, the request method stored in a database in association with the user identification and indicative of a method by use of which establishment of the friendship has been requested.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.