Patent ID: 8280960
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game system comprising: plural communication groups, each having been allocated different communication paths from one another and each including plural game terminals sharing the communication path allocated to the respective communication groups; and a server device that forms a player group of game terminals which will play a multiple-player game in a unit of a group by selecting, from among the plural game terminals of the plural communication groups, one game terminal as a parent node requiring a larger amount of bandwidth during a game and at least two game terminals as child nodes each requiring a smaller amount of bandwidth, each of the plural game terminals of the plural communication groups comprising: an inputter that receives an instruction input by a player; a grouping request transmitter that generates, upon a predetermined instruction being input via the inputter, a grouping request for requesting the forming of the player group and that transmits the grouping request to the server device; a player group data receiver that receives player group data indicating the configuration of the player group; and a controller that determines, on the basis of the player group data, whether the game terminal has been selected as a parent node and that controls communication during the game based on a result of the determination; the grouping request transmitter comprising: an entitlement determiner that determines, upon receiving the predetermined instruction, whether the game terminal can exercise entitlement to function as a parent node; and a generator that generates, in a case in which the entitlement determiner has determined that the exercise of the entitlement is possible, the grouping request containing ability data indicating that the game terminal has an ability to be selected as a parent node and that otherwise generates the grouping request not containing the ability data; the server device comprising: