User-name switching method on network game
AssigneeSquare, Inc.
InventorsYasumi Matsuno, Kazutoyo Maehiro
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Abstract
A terminal receives service provided by a server while using any one of a group of user-names stored in the server for each user and while using a character associated with the user-name. When a character currently in use is switched to another character according to a user instruction, the terminal compares a user-name associated with the switched character with a user-name currently in use. When the compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use, the terminal switches the user-name on the terminal side to a user-name associated with the switched character, and transmits information, indicating the user-name associated with the switched character, to the server.
Claims13
A user-name switching method in which a terminal connected to a server switches a user-name when receiving service provided by said server while using one of a plurality of user-names stored in said server for each user and while using a character associated with said user-name, said user-name switching method comprising:
- switching the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction;
- comparing a user-name associated with the switched character with the user-name currently being used to receive said service;
- switching the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to the user-name associated with said switched character when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- transmitting information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use.
A terminal, which receives service provided by a server while using one of a plurality of user-names stored in said server for each user and while using a character associated with said user-name, said terminal comprising:
- a character switching system that switches the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction;
- a comparator that compares a user-name associated with the character switched by said character switching system with the user-name currently being used to receive said service;
- a user-name switching system that switches the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to a user-name associated with said switched character when said user-name compared by said comparator is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- a transmitter that transmits information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said user-name compared by said comparator is different from the user-name currently in use.
A terminal, which receives service provided by a server while using one of a plurality of user-names stored in said server for each user and while using a character associated with said user-name, said terminal comprising:
- storage that stores a program for causing the terminal to switch the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction, compare a user-name associated with the switched character with the user-name currently being used to receive said service, switch the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to a user-name associated with said switched character when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use, and transmit information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- a processor that executes the program stored in said storage.
A user-name switching system comprising:
- a server that stores a plurality of user-names;
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- a terminal connected to said server, said terminal receiving service provided by said server while using one of a plurality of user-names stored in said server and while using a character associated with said user-name,
- wherein said terminal executes a program stored in storage so as to switch the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction;
- compare a user-name associated with the switched character with the user-name currently being used receive said service;
- switch the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to a user-name associated with said switched character;
- and transmit information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- said server switches the user-name currently in use among the plurality of user-names stored according to information indicating the user-name sent from said terminal.
A computer-readable storage medium having a program recorded thereon to control a terminal connected to a server to receive service provided by said server while using one a plurality of user-names stored in said server for each user and while using a character associated with said user-name, said program comprising:
- switching the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction;
- comparing a user-name associated with the switched character with the user-name currently being used to receive said service;
- switching the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to a user-name associated with said switched character when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- transmitting information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use.
A program, the code of which is converted into a signal and superimposed on a carrier wave, and which controls a terminal connected to a server to receive service provided by said server while using one of a plurality of user-names stored in said server for each user and while using a character associated with said user-name, said program comprising:
- switching the character currently in use to another character according to a user instruction;
- comparing a user-name associated with the switched character with the user-name currently being used to receive said service;
- switching the user-name, which is held by said terminal and is currently used, to a user-name associated with said switched character when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use;
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- transmitting information, indicating the user-name associated with said switched character, to said server when said compared user-name is different from the user-name currently in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.