Storage medium, information-processing device, information-processing system, and notification method

• US 10,250,604 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2015
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimizu, Takao
• Primary Examiner(s): Macilwinen, John M
• Application Number:
  US14/718,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,412 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/22 Traffic shaping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

An example information-processing device, when accepting a login from a user (SA1), executes a first processing (SA2). The first processing is, for example, execution of a game. The example information-processing device, when receiving, for example, a signal for having a chat (SA3), determines whether a destination user of the signal is a logged-in user (SA4). The example information-processing device, when the destination user is not a logged-in user, notifies the logged-in user of the receipt of the signal by displaying an icon (SA6). When doing so, the example information-processing device displays information on the destination user, without displaying a source user of the signal.

Claims

1. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

accepting a login from a first user;

detecting receipt of a chat request from a second user different from the first user,

upon detecting receipt of the chat request, in response to matching of a destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in, displaying a first screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the first screen including a button for starting a chat with the second user, and in response to the destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in not being matched, displaying a second screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the second screen not including the button for starting a chat with the second user.

2. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the second screen notifies the first user of information identifying the destination of the received chat request.

3. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 2, wherein

the second screen shows information associated with the destination of the received chat request.

4. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 3, wherein

the second screen shows an image of an avatar corresponding to the destination of the received chat request.

5. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the second screen notifies the first user of the chat request, while preventing the first user from identifying the second user.

6. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the first screen includes a dialogue box for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the dialogue box including the button for starting a chat with the second user, the dialogue box being placed on top of a game screen.

7. An information-processing device, comprising a computer processor configured to:

accept a login from a first user;

detect receipt of a chat request from a second user different from the first user;

upon detecting receipt of the chat request, in response to matching of a destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in, displaying a first screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the first screen including a button for starting a chat with the second user, and in response to the destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in not being matched, displaying a second screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the second screen not including the button for starting a chat with the second user.

8. An information-processing system, comprising a computer processor configured to:

accept a login from a first user;

detect receipt of a chat request from a second user different from the first user;

upon detecting receipt of the chat request, in response to matching of a destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in, displaying a first screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the first screen including a button for starting a chat with the second user, and in response to the destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in not being matched, displaying a second screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the second screen not including the button for starting a chat with the second user.

9. A notification method, comprising:

accepting a login from a first user at an information processing system comprising a computer processor;

detecting receipt of a chat request from a second user different from the first user;

upon detecting receipt of the chat request, in response to matching of a destination of the received chat request data and the first user who is logged in, displaying a first screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the first screen including a button for starting a chat with the second user, and in response to the destination of the received chat request and the first user who is logged in not being matched, displaying a second screen for notifying the receipt of the chat request, the second screen not including the button for starting a chat with the second user.