Touch based association of multiple computing devices

• US 10,095,404 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2015
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
• Inventors: Narita, Ken, Morishita, Kazuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Miah, Razu A
• Application Number:
  US14/944,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20160378329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

To provide a server device with which the burden of processing can be reduced during generation of relationship information among multiple terminal devices. The server device can include a communication unit for communicating with a first terminal device having a first touch panel, and with a second terminal device having a second touch panel; and a controller for determining whether an interval of time that is identified on the basis of first operation information received from the first terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the second terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range, and for generating prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination.

Claims

1. A server device, comprising:

a communication circuit configured to communicate with a first terminal device having a first touch panel associated with a first user, said communication circuit further configured to communicate with a second terminal device having a second touch panel associated with a second user different from the first user; and

a hardware processor configured to;

receive a first operation information via the communication circuit corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel;

receive second operation information via the communication circuit corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel;

determine whether an interval of time that is identified based on the received first operation information and the received second operation information falls within a prescribed range, and

generate a prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination,

wherein the prescribed relationship information comprises information that indicates a relationship between the first terminal device and the second terminal device, or between the first user operating the first terminal device and the second user operating the second terminal device; and

wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to a first speed at which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to a second speed at which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the first speed with the second speed and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.

2. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the prescribed relationship information is information that relates to authentication of the second user operating the second terminal device, by the first user operating the first terminal device.

3. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the first terminal device and the second terminal device run a prescribed application which comprises multiple sessions, and in which the sessions can be advanced by the first user and the second user in tandem, and

the prescribed relationship information is information for allowing the second user to join the session advancing on the first terminal device, in order for the second user to advance the session in tandem with the first user.

4. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the prescribed relationship information is information relating to the positional relationship between the first terminal device and the second terminal device.

5. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to the direction in which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to the direction in which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the direction in which the first swipe operation was performed and the direction in which the second swipe operation was performed, and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.

6. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to the position at which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to the position at which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the position at which the first swipe operation was performed and the position at which the second swipe operation was performed, and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.

7. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the first swipe operation and the second swipe operation are both operations performed by the first user.

8. A terminal device, comprising:

a first touch panel associated with a first user;

a communication circuit configured to communicate with another terminal device having a second touch panel associated with a second user different from the first user; and

a hardware processor configured to;

determine whether an interval of time that is identified based on first operation information corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the other terminal device via the communication circuit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range, and

generate a prescribed relationship information on based on the determination,

wherein the prescribed relationship information comprises information that indicates a relationship between the first terminal device and the second terminal device, or between the first user operating the first terminal device and the second user operating the second terminal device; and

wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to a first speed at which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to a second speed at which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the first speed with the second speed and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium in which a computer is stored, the computer program causing a computer to:

communicate with a first terminal device having a first touch panel associated with a first user, and with a second terminal device having a second touch panel associated with a second user different from the first user; and

determine whether an interval of time that is identified based on a first operation information received from the first terminal device via a communication circuit and corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the second terminal device via the communication circuit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range, and

generate prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination,

wherein the prescribed relationship information comprises information that indicates a relationship between the first terminal device and the second terminal device, or between the first user operating the first terminal device and the second user operating the second terminal device; and

wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to a first speed at which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to a second speed at which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the first speed with the second speed and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.

10. A method for generating prescribed relationship information in a server device that is connected, via a communication circuit, to a first terminal device having a first touch panel associate with a first user, and to a second terminal device having a second touch panel associated with a second user different from the first user, wherein the method comprises:

determining, at the server device, whether an interval of time that is identified on the basis of first operation information received from the first terminal device via the communication circuit and corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the second terminal device via the communication circuit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range; and

generating the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination,

wherein the prescribed relationship information comprises information that indicates a relationship between the first terminal device and the second terminal device, or between the first user operating the first terminal device and the second user operating the second terminal device; and

wherein the first operation information comprises information relating to a first speed at which the first swipe operation was performed, the second operation information comprises information relating to a second speed at which the second swipe operation was performed, and the controller compares the first speed with the second speed and generates the prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the comparison.