Ranking display method for a game machine wherein, when a score along with an E mail address is inputted from a personal computer, a server stores the inputted score and E mail address, and when there is a change in ranking of score, the server transmits a message by E mail to the corresponding personal computer.

Ranking display method for game machine

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the useless traffic in an internet, to eliminate the useless operations at the client side and to prevent the confusion at the WWW server side by detecting the updating of data of a WWW server and sending the electronic mails to the users who are previously registered. SOLUTION: The data file of a WWW server 1 is stored in a register disk 3, and a user of the client side notifies the server 1 of his own mail address. A user register part 11 stores the notified electronic mail addresses of users. A file monitoring part 13 always monitors the data file stored in the disk 3 and checks whether the data file is updated. If the data file is updated the part 13 notifies an updating notification part 12 of the updating of the data file. The part 12 acquires the electronic mail address of every user from the part 11 and sends an outline of the updated file data.

Www updating notification system

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the necessity for a game player to get access each time by transmitting a message of the effect by an E-mail only when order is changed in a ranking display method of a game device for accepting and running an application of a score from the game player by using a home page of INTERNET SOLUTION: A game player plays a game by a game device 4 to get access to a home page on a server 1 by using a personal computer 2 when acquiring a password-printed printing result The server 1 transfers a ranking registering program to the personal computer 2 when registration from the personal computer 2 is indicated The personal computer 2 practices this program to accept input of a name, a password and an E-mail address so as to practice ranking renewal processing When ranking is changed by ranking registration of the other game player, a message according to the change content is transmitted to a ranking resistrar from the server 1 by an E-mail COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO

Ranking display method of game device

PURPOSE: To provide a shared document management system by enabling users to acquire the latest accurate information on shared documents at all times and then giving the respective users every facility. CONSTITUTION: This system is equipped with a storage device 1 which stores and manages the shared documents, a means 2 which stores 1st information indicating correspondence relation between update levels corresponding to the frequencies of access to the respective shared documents and the users, and a control means 3 which performs control regarding shared document management. Then, this system has a means 3A which decides whether or not there is a 2nd user which has accessed a shared document before a 1st user when the user performs access for updating the shared document, and a means 3B which reports information UD indicating there was the document updating by the 1st user, to the 2nd user when there is the 2nd user. COPYRIGHT: (C)1995,JPO

Shared document management system

PURPOSE: To recognize the arrival of a document even before a document management program is started by making a server computer report the document arrival to the corresponding client by means of an independent electric mail CONSTITUTION: This method/system consists of plural client computers 200 and a single server computer 100 When the document registered by the user of a certain computer 200 is circulated or distributed to the users of other computers 200, an information extraction means 110 of the computer 100 uses the change of a document circulation/distribution management table contained in the computer 100 as a trigger to extract the information necessary to inform the clients of the circulation/distribution of the document Then, an electronic mail sentence preparation means 120 prepares the mail sentences from the extracted information, and a transmission means 130 sends an electronic main to inform the corresponding user of the circulation/distribution of the document

Document arrival reporting method and system therefor

PURPOSE: To notify a user of the update fact and content using a mail function at the time of updating data CONSTITUTION: A data edition part 31 performing edition against data stored in a data storage device 11 and a message transmission part (mail transmission part 35) transmitting an arbitrary message through a network 10 and a data management device 12 are provided When the data is updated in the data edition part 31, the prescribed update generation message is prepared by extracting the update part while comparing the data before and after update to be transmitted to the work station for the other user The user operating based on the data stored in the data storage device can recognize the update of the data executed by a work station on the spot COPYRIGHT: (C)1992,JPO&Japio

Data management device

PURPOSE:To improve the use efficiency of a memory space and the throughput of the system. CONSTITUTION:A threshold value comparison module 22 actuates an unnecessary object collection module 23 when the number of used entries in a reference count table 21 exceeds a preset threshold value. An unnecessary object collection module 23 scans the used entries in the reference count table 12 and collects objects in addresses registered in entries whose referred numbers are '0'.

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Garbage collection system