Server enabled user data exchange between information processing devices

• US 9,094,465 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Masato Kuwahara, Yutaka Murakami
• Inventors: Kuwahara, Masato, Murakami, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER, BRANDON J
• Application Number:
  US14/284,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 432 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4566, 455 411- 412, 455517-519, 455418-420, 370/338, 370/328
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2871 Implementation details of single intermediate entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers

Abstract

A server device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, from each of a plurality of information-processing devices, location information showing a respective location of each information-processing device; a setting unit configured to set a condition showing that one information-processing device is close to another information-processing device, based on a predetermined parameter; a determining unit configured to determine whether a first information-processing device and a second information-processing device from among the plurality of information-processing devices satisfy the condition based on the location information received by the receiving unit; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information determined at the determining unit to the first information-processing device and the second information-processing device, in a case that the determining unit determines that the first information-processing device and the second information-processing device satisfy the condition.

Claims

1. A server device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive first data from a first information-processing device, wherein the first data is provided from the first information-processing device to another information-processing device via the server device;

a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a first identification information showing an identification of an access point to which the first information-processing device connected;

a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a second identification information showing an identification of an access point to which a second information-processing device connected; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit to the second information-processing device the first data received from the first information-processing device, if the first identification information and the second identification information satisfy a predetermined condition.

2. The server device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving unit is further configured to receive second data from the second information-processing device, wherein the second data is provided from the first information-processing device to another information-processing device, and

the transmitting unit is further configured to transmit to the first information-processing device the second data received from the second information-processing device, if the first identification information and the second identification information satisfy the predetermined condition.

3. The server device according to claim 1, wherein

the first data is used in a game program.

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

receiving first data from a first information-processing device, wherein the first data is provided from the first information-processing device to another information-processing device via a server;

obtaining a first identification information showing an identification of an access point to which the first information-processing device connected;

obtaining a second identification information showing an identification of an access point to which a second information-processing device connected; and

transmitting to the second information-processing device the first data received from the first information-processing device, if the first identification information and the second identification information satisfy a predetermined condition.

5. A method comprising:

receiving first data from a first information-processing device, wherein the first data is provided from the first information-processing device to another information-processing device via a server;

obtaining a first identification information showing an identification of an access point to which the first information-processing device connected;

obtaining a second identification information showing an identification of an access point to which a second information-processing device connected; and

transmitting to the second information-processing device the first data received from the first information-processing device, if the first identification information and the second identification information satisfy a predetermined condition.

6. An information-processing system comprising:

a receiver configured to receive first data from a first information-processing device, wherein the first data is provided from the first information-processing device to another information-processing device via a server;

a processor configured to;

obtain a first identification information showing an identification of an access point to which the first information-processing device connected;

obtain a second identification information showing an identification of an access point to which a second information-processing device connected; and

a transmitter configured to transmit to the second information-processing device the first data received from the first information-processing device, if the first identification information and the second identification information satisfy a predetermined condition.