Fujitsu Corporation

Tadayuki Tahara

Misao Kikuchi

Hisayoshi Hayasaka

Yasushi Kitagawa

Kiyotaka Yago

Yoshinori Saito

Kenji Noma

Kunimasa Imasono

Kenji Kawasaki

Makiko Furuno

Masura Watanabe

Makoto Urano

Shuji Oba

A network service system capable of providing economical services comprises a plurality of host computers connected to a network for providing services through the network and an information processing terminal connected to the network. The information processing terminal identifies a service identifier, provided in a storage medium for network service, for identifying a type of a network service when the storage medium is attached, connects the line to the host computer which corresponds to the identified service identifier and receives the network service from the line-connected host computer.

Game machine having a communication terminal for playing games over a

After an opponent is determined by a search made in a communication character service, there may be effected transition to an action game service under control of the host computer, or a fight may be performed between terminal apparatuses that directly communicate with each other with temporary disconnection to the host computer. By preparing morphing intermediate moving images, the transition from communication character service to the action game service can be effected without causing an incongruous feeling.

Network game system having communication characters for conversation

Network service system and communication unit for game machine and game

A communication protocol used in a communication utilizing a window system, wherein a transmitting window number, a receiving window number, a transmitting sequence number and a receiving sequence number are provided as items in a message. The transmitting side and receiving side respectively count up the number of times of transmission and reception of messages transmitted and received and also give or provide the counted value to or in a message as the transmitting window number or receiving window number. In addition, transmitting window number is counted up when a number of messages transmitted or received has exceeded the window width, and thereby a number of times of transmission and reception of messages is controlled in units of the window number.

Communication protocol system

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tadayuki Tahara