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US 12,589,314 B2Granted
Recording medium and information processing device that guide user to utilize plural functions
AssigneeSega Corporation
InventorTakahiro Otomo
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Abstract
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that guide a user using a function to use another function among plural functions given by an information processing device, the instructions causing a computer to execute: giving preferential treatment to the user playing a first game depending on a first usage charge in the first game; acquiring usage information indicating a second usage charge in a second game; giving a predetermined license to the user, regardless of the first usage charge, under a condition that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than a certain amount; and giving the preferential treatment, in the first game, to the user who has given the predetermined license.
Claims9
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions causing an information processing device to execute:
- communicating with a terminal device belonging to a game player via a network;
- causing the terminal device to execute a first game and a second game;
- monitoring and accumulating a first usage charge spent by the game player in the first game within a specific period of time;
- giving preferential treatment in the first game to the game player depending on the first usage charge;
- storing, in a storage, category information indicating usage information of the second game and a corresponding rank, for each category of preferential license;
- causing the terminal device to capture an image of a screen on which a rank of the game player is displayed, with an internal camera during the second game;
- analyzing the captured image to identify a rank set to the game player playing the second game;
- upon identifying that the identified rank is included in any category in the category information, identifying that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than a certain amount;
- giving a predetermined license in the first game to the game player, regardless of the first usage charge, under a condition that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than the certain amount;
- with respect to the game player who has not been given the predetermined license, setting a rank corresponding to a highest attainment amount to the game player by confirming whether the first usage charge exceeds each of different attainment amounts in order from lowest to highest attainment amounts;
- with respect to the game player who has been given the predetermined license, setting a rank corresponding to the predetermined license, or in a case where the first usage charge exceeds an attainment amount of a higher rank than the rank corresponding to the predetermined license, setting the higher rank;
- giving the preferential treatment in the first game, to the game player who has been given the predetermined license;
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- causing a display input device of the terminal device to display a notification indicating the predetermined license and the preferential treatment given to the game player in the first game correspondingly to the predetermined license, the notification timely reflecting the first usage charge having been spent until a present time and further indicating a remaining usage charge necessary for rank-up.
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An information processing device comprising:
- a storage;
- and
- a control device that executes:
- communicating with a terminal device belonging to a game player via a network,
- causing the terminal device to execute a first game and a second game,
- giving preferential treatment in the first game to the game player depending on the first usage charge,
- reading out, from the storage, usage information indicating a second usage charge spent by the game player in a second game,
- storing, in a storage, category information indicating usage information of the second game and a corresponding rank, for each category of preferential license,
- causing the terminal device to capture an image of a screen on which a rank of the game player is displayed, with an internal camera during the second game,
- analyzing the captured image to identify a rank set to the game player playing the second game,
- upon identifying that the identified rank is included in any category in the category information, identifying that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than a certain amount,
- giving a predetermined license in the first game to the game player, regardless of the first usage charge, under a condition that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than the certain amount,
- with respect to the game player who has not been given the predetermined license, setting a rank corresponding to a highest attainment amount to the game player by confirming whether the first usage charge exceeds each of different attainment amounts in order from lowest to highest attainment amounts,
- with respect to the game player who has been given the predetermined license, setting a rank corresponding to the predetermined license, or in a case where the first usage charge exceeds an attainment amount of a higher rank than the rank corresponding to the predetermined license, setting the higher rank,
- giving the preferential treatment in the first game, to the game player who has been given the predetermined license, and
- causing a display input device of the terminal device to display a notification indicating the predetermined license and the preferential treatment given to the game player in the first game correspondingly to the predetermined license, the notification timely reflecting the first usage charge having been spent until a present time and further indicating a remaining usage charge necessary for rank-up.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.