COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140325017A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: NIITANI, Ryusuke, SHIOTANI, Masahiro, NONAKA, Toyokazu, HOSOKAWA, Takehiko, KAWAMOTO, Kouichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,721,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

An example computer-readable storage medium stores an information processing program, and this information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus 10A to function as a close proximity communication unit 13 and an information processing unit 12. The close proximity communication unit 13 receives communication history data indicating a history of communication of application data by an information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication from the information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication. The information processing unit 12 performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the close proximity communication unit 13 as a parameter.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program, wherein the information processing program causes a computer of a first information processing apparatus to function as:

a communication unit for receiving communication history data indicating a history, of a second information processing apparatus, of communication of predetermined communication data performed with an information processing apparatus other than the second information processing apparatus using wireless communication from the second information processing apparatus using wireless communication; and

an information processing unit for performing predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the communication unit as a parameter.

2. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication history data is data indicating a history, of the second information processing apparatus, of reception of the communication data.

3. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication history data is data indicating the number of counterparts of the communication.

4. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing unit performs, using first data that can be used by a first application program and the communication history data received by the communication unit, predetermined information processing of the first application program.

5. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the communication unit further receives first data that can be used by a first application program from the second information processing apparatus, and

wherein the information processing unit performs, using the first data that is stored in the first information processing apparatus and that can be used by the first application program, the first data received by the communication unit, and the communication history data received by the communication unit, predetermined information processing of the first application program.

6. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 4, wherein the information processing unit updates the first data stored in the first information processing apparatus by the communication history data, as the information processing.

7. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing unit executes a game that takes the communication history data as a parameter, as the information processing.

8. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the communication unit receives, using wireless communication, the communication data from the second information processing apparatus together with the communication history data, and

wherein the information processing unit performs, using the communication data, information processing different from the predetermined information processing.

9. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program, wherein the information processing program causes a computer of a first information processing apparatus for performing wireless communication with a second information processing apparatus including a data storage unit, a communication unit and an information processing unit to function as:

the data storage unit, the communication unit and the information processing unit,

wherein the data storage unit stores communication history data indicating a history of wireless communication of predetermined communication data performed by the communication unit with another information processing apparatus,

wherein the communication unit transmits/receives the communication history data to/from another information processing apparatus using wireless communication, and

wherein the information processing unit performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the communication unit as a parameter.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a communication unit for receiving communication history data indicating a history, of another information processing apparatus, of wireless communication of predetermined communication data performed with an information processing apparatus other than the other information processing apparatus from the other information processing apparatus using wireless communication; and

an information processing unit for performing predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the communication unit as a parameter.

11. An information processing system including a plurality of information processing apparatuses,

wherein the plurality of information processing apparatuses each include a data storage unit, a communication unit and an information processing unit,

wherein the data storage unit stores communication history data indicating a history of wireless communication of predetermined communication data performed by the communication unit with another information processing apparatus,

wherein the communication unit transmits/receives the communication history data to/from another information processing apparatus using wireless communication, and

wherein the information processing unit performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data of another information processing apparatus received by the communication unit as a parameter.

12. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving communication history data indicating a history, of another information processing apparatus, of wireless communication of predetermined communication data performed with an information processing apparatus other than the other information processing apparatus from the other information processing apparatus using wireless communication; and

performing predetermined information processing with the communication history data which has been received as a parameter.