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Game system, game system control method, and recording medium

US8465369B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 19, 2011
Grant dateJun 18, 2013
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Expiry dateJul 4, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F2300/636
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A network game system includes a substitution management portion that, when a mid-competition player requests to substitute that player's game operations to a spectator, performs management of a substitution process in which the terminal device of that player is set as a spectating terminal, and the terminal device of the spectator is set as a competing terminal, wherein the spectator who has been substituted for that player by the substitution management portion executes the game operations of that player by operating the terminal device of the spectator.

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