Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Nguyen, Kim (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
active
06997809
ABSTRACT:
This invention is intended to provide an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which, on the basis of a first script for executing the processing for playing a game, a second script for causing the opponent of the game to execute the processing is generated as well as data indicative of game progress status and the generated second script and data are stored in an electronic mail to be sent to the opponent of the game. Consequently, the game players can proceed with a game via a network without always being connected thereto.
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Matsuda Kouichi
Ueno Hiroshi
Watanabe Yasuhiro
Nguyen Kim
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
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