Patent ID: 9498723
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A server device for executing a game and managing game rewards to be given to a plurality of users playing the game, comprising: a storage unit for storing, for each of the plurality of users, a data package and a plurality of modified packages, wherein the data package includes identifiers of a plurality of game rewards and reward giving-status information indicating which game rewards have been given to a user, and wherein each of the modified packages includes data indicating how to modify the plurality of game rewards, and wherein each modified package includes a package rarity level derived from rarity scores of the game rewards therein; a communication unit for communicating with a plurality of user devices of the plurality of users; a grouping unit for grouping the plurality of users into one or more groups; an event proceeding unit for causing a first plurality of users belonging to the same group to jointly participate in one or more events proceeding in the game; a package giving unit for giving a modified package to the first plurality of users in the one or more events; a first generating unit for generating information for displaying a reward list of the plurality of game rewards on a user device, the reward list indicating whether or not any of the plurality of game rewards has been given to the user; a rewarding unit for selecting at least one of the plurality of game rewards displayed in the reward list, the rewarding unit further updating the reward giving-status information corresponding to the selected game reward, in response to a reward request from a user device of any of the first plurality of users; a second generating unit for generating information for displaying a modified-package list of the plurality of modified packages and images of game rewards in the modified-package list on the user device in response to an update request from the user device, the modified-package list indicating how the plurality of game rewards are modified by applying each of the modified packages, wherein said generated information for displaying includes information for displaying said images of game rewards according to rarity scores of said game rewards, wherein the modified-package list is to be displayed according to the package rarity levels of the plurality of modified packages therein; and a package updating unit for updating the data package by adding to or deleting from the data package an identifier corresponding to a game reward indicated by a modified package selected by any of the first plurality of users, wherein the rewarding unit transmits an updated reward list to the first plurality of users to be displayed according to the updated data package, and awards at least one of the plurality of game rewards displayed in the updated reward list to any of the first plurality of users.