# US 11,439,905 B2 · Information processing device and program

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- Number: US 11,439,905 B2
- Document ID: US11439905B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/755,422
- Filed: 2018-09-14
- Published: 2020-10-08
- Granted: 2022-09-13
- Earliest claimed: 2017-10-12
- Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
- Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
- Inventors: Takahiro Otomo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11439905B2

## CPC

- A63F 13/5375: for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
- A63F 13/30: Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
- A63F 13/35: Details of game servers
- A63F 13/533: for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
- A63F 13/69: by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
- A63F 13/79: involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
- A63F 13/825: Fostering virtual characters
- A63F 2300/575: for trading virtual items
- A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

## Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An information processing device, comprising:
a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade are set in association with each other;
a user information storage unit that stores user information in which the content acquired by the user is set as possessed content, and acquirable content that has been reserved by the user without having been acquired is set as reserved content;
a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the content that becomes the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate the content that will be the trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and
a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.

### Claim 2

A non-transitory computer-readable recording storage medium storing a program for causing a computer comprising a processor and a memory,
wherein said program causes the computer to function as:
a trade information storage means for storing trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade are set in association with each other;
a user information storage means for storing user information in which the content acquired by the user is set as possessed content, and acquirable content that has been reserved by the user without having been acquired is set as reserved content;
a selection means for selecting reserved content that is the same as the content that becomes the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate the content that will be the trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and
a notification means for notifying the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.