Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Nakata

Kosuke Yabuki

Yusuke Shiraiwa

Jun Ito

Shigetoshi Kitayama

Tokihiko Toyoda

Katsuhito Nishimura

Tomohiro Nishino

Ryoma Aoki

Tooru Ooe

Hiroki Sotoike

Yuki Mizuguchi

Atsushi Asakura

Hirohito Yoshimoto

Haruki Tojo

Takaki Takayama

Satoshi Nakayama

Ryo Yamaguchi

Keigo Nakano

Manabu Okajima

Takumi Masuda

Masashi Mifune

Keiko Kinoshita

Megumi Kurarta

Yukihiko Itoh

A communication system includes a group setting means, a first communication means, and a second communication means. The group setting means sets groups such that each of devices belongs to one of first-type groups, and to one of second-type groups. The first communication means enables, in each of the first-type groups, each of devices belonging to a first-type group to send its own data to other devices belonging to the same first-type group as the device. The second communication means enables, in each of the second-type groups, each of devices belonging to a second-type group to send its own data and data received from other devices belonging to a same first-type group as the device, to other devices belonging to the same second-type group as the device.

Communication system, communication device, storage medium, and communication method

A game system, which is an example of a matching system, includes a game serverand a plurality of game devicesthat are connected to the game serverover a network. The game systemincludes a related player presenting sectionfor presenting, to a participating player who is attempting to join a game and for whom matchmaking is to be performed in any of matching rooms that are matching ranges, a related player related to the participating player, a matching room identification sectionfor identifying a matching room that is associated with the related player presented by the related player presenting section, and a matching processorfor performing matchmaking in the matching room identified by the matching room identification section

Matching system, information processing apparatus, server, matching method, and storage medium storing matching program

An example communication system, including: a plurality of devices that form a mesh-type network, each of the plurality of devices performing communication from a source device to a destination device, directly or by relaying via one or more other devices, and at least one of the plurality of devices including a selecting unit, that selects a communication route from the source device to the destination device according to a first restriction with regard to a relay value indicative of the number of communication routes that each device is able to relay.

An information processing apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which can share, with another apparatus, information regarding data which should not be provided to a user, are provided. The number of times of reporting of data including a contents, which should not be provided to the user, from each game apparatus included in a system, is counted on the basis of information assigned to the data. When the counted value becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, the information is added and registered to identification information. The identification information is transmitted from a server of the system to each information processing apparatus, and used in each information processing apparatus.

Computer-readable storage medium having stored information processing program therein, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

An example information processing device may include an operation part and a sound input part. The information processing device may further include at least one processor configured to receive an operation performed with respect to the operation part and receive sound input to the sound input part. The at least one processor may further be configured to perform information processing based on the sound input to a sound input part and, when the operation performed with respect to the operation part is received, substantially invalidate the sound input to the sound input part.

Recording medium, information processing device, information processing system and information processing method

A game apparatus receives signals from a plurality of game apparatuses. When the game apparatus has received signals from the plurality of game apparatuses, the game apparatus sorts the signals by apparatus and calculates an average RSSI value of the signals for each of the respective apparatuses. The game apparatus further calculates an average value of the calculated average RSSI values of the respective apparatuses. Then, the game apparatus determines a single icon to be displayed based on the calculated average value and causes the icon to be displayed on a screen.

Computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processor, information processing system, and information processing method

A game apparatusis configured to communicate with a server and at least one other game apparatusvia access points. The game apparatusregisters, as a communication partner, another specific game apparatusamong the at least one other game apparatusThe game apparatusautomatically and repeatedly searches for a connectable access point among the access points. When a connectable access point has been found, the game apparatusautomatically connects to the server via the connectable access point. When the game apparatushas connected to the server by using server connection means, the game apparatusautomatically receives, from the server, management information which indicates a communication connection status of the other specific game apparatusregistered as the communication partner.

Communication system, information processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium having a program stored therein, and information processing method

Provided is a communication system which includes a plurality of game apparatuses. Each game apparatus performs short-range wireless communication with another game apparatus among the plurality of game apparatuses. Through the short-range wireless communication, the game apparatus receives identification information of the other game apparatus (other-apparatus identification information) from the other game apparatus. The game apparatus detects the communication status of the short-range wireless communication with the other game apparatus. Based on the detection result, the game apparatus determines whether or not to register the other game apparatus which is associated with the received other-apparatus identification information. When determining to register the other game apparatus, the information processing apparatus registers the other game apparatus and performs communication with the registered other game apparatus.

Communication system, information processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium having program stored therein, and information processing method

Ghost data used for reproducing a game process executed by user operations are transmitted from game apparatuses to a data management apparatus. The data management apparatus stores the received ghost data, according to a definition of a database in which score sections are defined based on a value represented by score data, and a maximum registration allowable number of users for which the ghost data are registered is defined for each of the score sections, or is defined so as to be the same among the score sections. The data management apparatus transmits, when a ghost data distribution request is received, the ghost data for at least one user for which the ghost data is registered so as to be associated with one of the score sections, the scores section being associated with the score data included in the ghost data distribution request, to the one of the game apparatuses.

Data management apparatus and data distribution system

A distribution chart representing a distribution of accomplishment times included in a plurality of pieces of result data is generated based on the plurality of pieces of result data including the accomplishment times of a racing game. Icons for identifying the plurality of pieces of result data are displayed on the distribution chart. When one of the icons displayed on the distribution chart is selected by a user, a process associated with the result data represented by the one of the icons having been selected is executed. Therefore, the distribution chart which includes a plurality of pieces of data as elements and is based on a predetermined index is displayed, and an interactive operation using the distribution chart can be realized.

Computer-readable storage medium having distribution chart display program stored therein, information processing apparatus, and distribution chart display system

Ghost data used for reproducing a game process having been executed in accordance with operations performed by users are transmitted, as necessary, from a plurality of game apparatuses to a data management apparatus. The data management apparatus stores the ghost data received from the plurality of game apparatuses, in accordance with a definition of a database in which a plurality of score sections are defined based on a value represented by score data, and a maximum registration allowable number of users for which the ghost data are registered is defined for each of the plurality of score sections, or is defined so as to be the same among the plurality of score sections. The data management apparatus transmits, when a ghost data distribution request is received from a one of the plurality of game apparatuses, the ghost data for at least one user for which the ghost data is registered so as to be associated with one of the plurality of score sections, the one of the plurality of scores sections being associated with the score data included in the ghost data distribution request, to the one of the plurality of game apparatuses. Thus, it is possible to limit the total capacity for storing the ghost data in a server to a predetermined range of capacity, and allow each player to obtain the ghost data in accordance with a skill of the player.

After a star peer-to-peer network is constructed, a network game is started. While the network game is executed, a mesh peer-to-peer network is gradually constructed by establishing connections between client terminals which have been connected to the star peer-to-peer network. After the network game is started, while the mesh peer-to-peer network is constructed, client terminals which have established connections therebetween transmit and receive game data to and from each other without passing via a host terminal, and client terminals which have not established connections therebetween yet transmit and receive game data to and from each other via the host terminal. Thus, a game network system can be realized, in which a time during which players wait for the network game to start is short and in which processing burdens are not concentrated on a specific user terminal.

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Kyoto, Japan

Tetsuya Nakata