Patent ID: 11931648
Assignee: SQUARE ENIX LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 13:
14. A server configured to control progress of a video game in response to a user operation, the server comprising:
a creating function configured to create a plurality of parties, each of the plurality of parties being composed of a predetermined number or less of users that plays the video game;
an arranging function configured to arrange a first plurality of users in a first party that carries out a first play request for a first content of a plurality of contents in the video game in a first frame corresponding to the first content while maintaining an association among the plurality of users belonging to the first party;
a supplementing function configured to determine whether a number of users in the first party is less than the predetermined number, the supplementing function being configured to supplement an insufficient number of users to the first party in a case where the number of users in the first party is less than the predetermined number; and
a selecting function configured to select an attribute lacking in the first party on a basis of attributes of the first plurality of users and a supplement condition set to the first content,
wherein the supplementing function is configured to supplement a user of the attribute lacking in the first party,
the supplementing function refers to a storage to supplement the user, the storage storing, in association with each of the first plurality of users, the first content and a degree of progress of the first content by the first plurality of users, the storage further storing, in association with the user, a selection of whether participation in a middle of the first content by the user is allowed or not allowed, and
the supplementing function causes the user, which is supplemented by the supplementing function and in response to the selection indicating that participation in the middle of the first content by the user is allowed, to progress the first content from a middle part of the degree of progress amongst the first plurality of users in the first party.