US 12,080,131 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
Kosuke Kuriyama, Tokyo (JP); Masanori Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP); and Nobutaka Komaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to mixi, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by mixi, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/696,861.
Application 17/696,861 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/008048, filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-043191 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0207964 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G06Q 50/34 (2012.01)
CPC G07F 17/3288 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/34 (2013.01); G07F 17/3211 (2013.01); G07F 17/323 (2013.01); G07F 17/3276 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus for accepting a bet for each competition in which the bet is placed on a betting target, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to execute a process including
executing, according to an instruction of a first player, a first player's bet placed on a first betting target for a first competition based on a first betting target designated by a second player for the first competition,
in response to the first player's bet for the first competition being a win, executing the first player's bet placed on a second betting target for a second competition that takes place after the first competition, based on a second betting target designated by the second player for the second competition, by storing (i) the second betting target for the second competition in association with an identification of the first player and (ii) the second betting target designated by the second player for the second competition in the memory, and
in response to the first player's bet for the first competition being not a win, not executing the first player's bet for the second competition based on the second betting target designated by the second player for the second competition.