Center Device
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Abstract
To provide a center device for accommodating a variety of situations which may occur when a home-use game machine, or the like, is used, in which a plurality of users use their own controller devices such as an input device. A center device communicates between a plurality of controller devices, receives an instructing operation carried out by the user of each controller device, and executes processing according to the instructing operation. The center device selects at least one of the controller devices as a controller device to be authenticated from among the plurality of controller devices by utilizing communication with each of the plurality of controller devices, and conducts authentication processing relative to each of the controller devices while communicating with each of the selected controller device.
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7 Claims
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4. A center device having wired and radio communication interfaces, for communicating with a plurality of controller devices in either a wired or radio manner to receive an instruction operation from a user of each controller device, and for carrying out a process based on the instruction operation, the plurality of controller devices each having unique wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information, comprising:
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a device for obtaining, when each of the plurality of controller devices is connected in a wired manner, the wired communication interface identification information and the radio communication interface identification information of the controller device; a device for storing the obtained wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information of each controller device so as to be associated with each other; and a device for continuing, when a communication interface used in communication between the controller device and the center device is changed from the wired communication interface to the radio communication interface or the radio communication interface to the wired communication interface, the communication with the controller device, using communication interface identification information after the change which is stored so as to be associated with communication interface identification information before the change.
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5. A method for controlling a center device, using the center device having wired and radio communication interfaces, for communicating with a plurality of controller devices in either a wired or radio manner to receive an instruction operation from a user of each controller device, and for carrying out a process based on the instruction operation, the plurality of controller devices each having unique wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information, the method comprising:
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obtaining, when each of the plurality of controller devices is connected in a wired manner, the wired communication interface identification information and the radio communication interface identification information of the controller device; storing the obtained wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information of each controller device so as to be associated with each other; and continuing, when a communication interface used in communication between the controller device and the center device is changed from the wired communication interface to the radio communication interface or the radio communication interface to the wired communication interface, the communication with the controller device, using communication interface identification information after the change which is stored so as to be associated with communication interface identification information before the change.
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6. A system, comprising:
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at least one controller device having wired and radio communication interfaces and unique wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information; and a center device for communicating with the controller device in either a wired or radio manner to receive an instruction operation from a user of each controller device, and for carrying out a process based on the instruction operation, wherein the center device comprises a device for obtaining, when each of the plurality of controller devices is connected in a wired manner, the wired communication interface identification information and the radio communication interface identification information of the controller device; a device for storing the obtained wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information of each controller device so as to be associated with each other; and a device for continuing, when a communication interface used in communication between the controller device and the center device is changed from the wired communication interface to the radio communication interface or the radio communication interface to the wired communication interface, the communication with the controller device, using communication interface identification information after the change which is stored so as to be associated with communication interface identification information before the change.
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7. A controller device comprising:
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wired and radio communication interfaces; a device for storing unique wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information; and a device for communication with a center device via a selected one of said wired communication interface or said radio communication interface, wherein by outputting said wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information to said center device in order to store the wired communication interface identification information and radio communication interface identification information in the center device, and when communicating via said wired communication interface, the controller device is identified with said wired communication interface identification information, and when communicating via said radio communication interface, the controller device is identified with said radio communication interface identification information.
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