Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-03
2006-10-03
Coburn, Corbett B. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
C463S040000, C463S041000, C709S206000, C709S207000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07115035
ABSTRACT:
Multiple video game apparatuses are connected to a game server apparatus. This network game progresses when players of the respective video game apparatuses exchange messages via the game server apparatus. When a predetermined event is generated by processing in the game server apparatus, a specific message is transmitted to each video game apparatus. In a chat window provided on a display screen of each video game apparatus, the message sent from the game server apparatus is scrolled and displayed from the bottom to the top. When the specific message reaches an uppermost portion of the chat window, a lock window is set and the specific message is displayed therein. The specific message in the lock window is not erased by the reception of a next message.
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Coburn Corbett B.
Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
Pandya Sunit
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