Data delivery system, data delivery server and video game device

• US 20020187835A1
• Filed: 06/06/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Norio, Namba, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,201,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/71 using secure communication between game devices and game servers, e.g. by encrypting game data or authenticating players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/77 involving data related to game devices or game servers, e.g. configuration data, software version or amount of memory
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/95 Storage media specially adapted for storing game information, e.g. video game cartridges

Abstract

In a data delivery system utilizing a network 400, a data delivery server 100 receives a recording medium specifying information stored in a recording medium 300 from a video game device 200, generates and administers an authentication information and a password used to permit the delivery of an event information to the video game device 200 while relating them to the video game device 200, transmits the generated authentication information and password to the video game device 200, and delivers the event information to the video game device 200 upon receiving the password as a response from the video game device 200. The video game device 200 includes a password storage means for receiving the authentication information and the password from the data delivery server 100 and saving the password.

Claims

1. A data delivery system in which a video game device having a function of executing a program stored in a recording medium detachably mountable in a main game unit by mounting the recording medium in the main game unit and a data delivery server for delivering event information are connected with each other via a network, wherein

said data delivery server comprising:

user registration request receiving means for receiving at least a recording medium specifying information stored in the recording medium from the video game device,

authentication information administering means for generating and administering authentication information and a password used to permit the delivery of the event information to the video game device based on the received recording medium specifying information while relating them to the video game device,

authentication information presenting means for transmitting the generated authentication information and the password to the video game device, and

delivering means for delivering the event information to the video game device upon the receipt of the password as a response from the video game device, and

said video game device comprising;

user registration request transmitting means for reading the recording medium specifying information stored in the recording medium and transmitting the same to the data delivery server, and

password storage means for receiving the authentication information and the password from the data delivery server and saving the password.

2. A data delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the video game device comprises input receiving means for receiving an input of the password received from the data delivery server, and the password storage means saves the password received by the input receiving means.

3. A data delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the authentication information includes the recording medium specifying information and identification information peculiar to the video game device.

4. A data delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the authentication information administering means includes provisional registering means for temporarily registering the password, and regular registering means for registering as a certified user upon the receipt of the password from the video game device.

5. A data delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the authentication information administering means includes delivery condition administering means for administering a delivery condition concerning the delivery of the event information while relating it to the authentication information, and the delivering means prohibits the delivery of the event information to the video game device if the delivery request from the video game device does not satisfy the delivery condition administered by the delivery condition administering means.

6. A data delivery system according to claim 5, wherein the delivery condition includes at least one of a data amount to be delivered, the number of data deliveries, a data delivery number, and a validity term of the data delivery.

7. A data delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the event information includes an event content and guide information concerning the event content.

8. A data delivery system according to claim 7, wherein the data delivery server includes selection instruction receiving means for receiving a selection instruction for selecting at least one of the event content and the guide information from the video game device, and the delivering means delivers at least one of the event content and the guide information corresponding to the selection instruction to the video game device.

9. A data delivery server for delivering an event information via a network to a video game device having a function of executing a program stored in a recording medium detachably mountable in a main game unit by mounting the recording medium in the main game unit, comprising:

user registration request receiving means for receiving at least a recording medium specifying information stored in the recording medium from the video game device,

authentication information administering means for generating and administering authentication information and a password used to permit the delivery of the event information to the video game device based on the received recording medium specifying information while relating them to the video game device,

authentication information presenting means for transmitting the generated authentication information and the password to the video game device, and

delivering means for delivering the event information to the video game device upon the receipt of the password as a response from the video game device.

10. A video game device having a function of executing a program stored in a recording medium detachably mountable in a main game unit by mounting the recording medium in the main game unit and adapted to receive event information from a data delivery server for delivering the event information via a network, comprising:

user registration request transmitting means for reading a recording medium specifying information stored in the recording medium and transmitting the same to the data delivery server,

authentication information receiving means for receiving authentication information and a password generated to permit the delivery of the event information based on the recording medium specifying information in the data delivery server from the data delivery server,

password storage means for saving the password, and

delivery request transmitting means for reading the password from the password storage means and transmitting the same to the data delivery server as a delivery request for the event information.