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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2012
Kazushi Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Akao, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazushi Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Akao, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A front end server receives a request to start executing a game on at least one game server, the at least one game server being capable of executing at least one game, having an upper limit set to a total of amounts of resources that can be secured in executing at least one game, and executing a game as an object of execution when an amount of resources associated with the game as the object of execution can be secured. A management server starts a new game server when an amount of resources associated with the game according to the execution start request exceeds an amount of remaining resources that can be secured in each game server already started or being started at a time of receiving the execution start request. The management server makes one of the game servers execute the game according to the execution start request.