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AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorsKazushi Yoshida, Akihito Nagata, Shinichiro Mikami, Juichi Takahashi, Christopher Jimison, Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen, David Peter Goodenough
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A virtual space management system includes: a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space; and a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of the plurality of space management servers and a user terminal. Each space management server executes a process relating to a transition in which a position in the virtual space associated with the user terminal transitions from inside a partial space managed by another space management server to inside a partial space managed by the local space management server. The communication control server maintains communication connection with the user terminal during execution of the process relating to the transition, and changes a transmission destination of data received from the user terminal to the local space management server managing the partial space to which the transition has been made according to the transition.
A virtual space management system, comprising:
A virtual space management system, comprising:
A communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space, and a user terminal,
A control method for a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space, and a user terminal, the control method comprising:
A computer readable information recording medium, storing a program for causing a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space, and a user terminal, to function as connection destination management means for maintaining, upon transition of a position in the virtual space associated with the user terminal from inside a partial space which is managed by a space management server to inside a partial space which is managed by another space management server, communication connection with the user terminal while the other space management server is executing a process relating to the transition, and changing a transmission destination of data received from the user terminal to the other space management server according to the transition.
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