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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2009
Kazushi Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihito Nagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Mikami, Chiba, JP;
Juichi Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Christopher Jimison, Foster City, CA (US);
Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Peter Goodenough, Hayward, CA (US);
Kazushi Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihito Nagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Mikami, Chiba, JP;
Juichi Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Christopher Jimison, Foster City, CA (US);
Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Peter Goodenough, Hayward, CA (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A virtual space management system includes: a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space; and a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of the plurality of space management servers and a user terminal. Each space management server executes a process relating to a transition in which a position in the virtual space associated with the user terminal transitions from inside a partial space managed by another space management server to inside a partial space managed by the local space management server. The communication control server maintains communication connection with the user terminal during execution of the process relating to the transition, and changes a transmission destination of data received from the user terminal to the local space management server managing the partial space to which the transition has been made according to the transition.