Ranking display method for game machine
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1. A ranking display method for a game machine wherein a server is connected to a communication line, score ranking information of said game machine is provided to a client accessing to said server through said communication line, said server comprising steps of:
- accepting a score of the game machine and an electronic mail address in said server;
storing the accepted score and electronic mail address in said server;
adding the received score into the ranking information;
detecting a score making a change in ranking by the addition; and
transmitting a message showing occurrence of a change by electronic mail to an a mail address shown by the electronic mail address corresponding to the score making the change in ranking;
wherein said transmitting comprises a step for selecting a mail address from the stored mail addresses corresponding to the detected score to obtain at least one electronic mail address to be used in said transmitting and said message is not transmitted to the mail addresses in which the corresponding scores stored do not make the change in ranking.
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Abstract
Ranking display method for a game machine wherein, when a score along with an E mail address is inputted from a personal computer, a server stores the inputted score and E mail address, and when there is a change in ranking of score, the server transmits a message by E mail to the corresponding personal computer.
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16 Claims
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1. A ranking display method for a game machine wherein a server is connected to a communication line, score ranking information of said game machine is provided to a client accessing to said server through said communication line, said server comprising steps of:
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accepting a score of the game machine and an electronic mail address in said server;
storing the accepted score and electronic mail address in said server;
adding the received score into the ranking information;
detecting a score making a change in ranking by the addition; and
transmitting a message showing occurrence of a change by electronic mail to an a mail address shown by the electronic mail address corresponding to the score making the change in ranking;
wherein said transmitting comprises a step for selecting a mail address from the stored mail addresses corresponding to the detected score to obtain at least one electronic mail address to be used in said transmitting and said message is not transmitted to the mail addresses in which the corresponding scores stored do not make the change in ranking. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11)
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6. A ranking display method for a game machine, wherein a server is connected to a communication line, score ranking information of said game machine is provided to a client accessing to said server through said communication, said server comprising steps of:
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accepting a score of said game machine and an electronic mail address from said client; and
when at least one of said score, said electronic email address, and a player name is received from the client encrypted, performing an overlapping determination as to whether or not the same information as said player'"'"'s name is internally stored, if presence of overlapping is determined, the score corresponding to the internally stored player name or the accepted score, whichever greater, is stored internally, whereby a plurality of scores are not allowed for a player of the same name. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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12. A ranking display method for a game machine wherein a server is connected to a communication line, score ranking information of said game machine is provided to a client accessing to said server through said communication line, said server comprising steps of:
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accepting a plurality of scores and a plurality of electronic mail addresses, each of the plurality of electronic mail addresses corresponding to one of the plurality of scores;
storing the accepted plurality of scores and plurality of electronic mail addresses in the server;
ranking each of the accepted scores;
accepting a new score and corresponding electronic mail address;
ranking the new score relative to the ranked plurality of scores;
identifying the scores whose rank has changed as a result of the ranking of the new score; and
transmitting, by electronic mail, a message showing occurrence of a change in ranking, the message being transmitted only to those electronic mail addresses corresponding to scores whose rank has changed as a result of the ranking of the new score. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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