INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150031461A1
• Filed: 04/24/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ambarella Incorporated, Nintendo Company Limited, Pokeman Company, Pokemon
• Original Assignee: Ambarella Incorporated, Nintendo Company Limited, Pokemon
• Inventors: MOMOSE, HIROSHI, ANDO, KAORI, ARAKI, HIDEAKI, ITO, TAKAYUKI, TAGA, NAYUTA, HATTA, YOSHIHIRO
• Granted Patent: US 10,052,553 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/327 using wireless networks, e.g. Wi-Fi® or piconet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/73 Authorising game programs or game devices, e.g. checking authenticity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/825 Fostering virtual characters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/95 Storage media specially adapted for storing game information, e.g. video game cartridges

Abstract

An example system includes: a contactless communication part that performs contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function; a data writing part that writes data to the data storage medium by the contactless communication part; a storage part that stores the data written by the data writing part; and a corruption determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted or not. When the corruption determination part determines that the data is corrupted, the data writing part writes the data stored in the storage part, to the data storage medium.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a contactless communication part that performs contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function;

a data writing part that writes data to the data storage medium by the contactless communication part;

a storage part that stores the data to be written by the data writing part; and

a corruption determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted or not,

wherein when the corruption determination part determines that the data is corrupted, the data writing part writes the data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the contactless communication part is capable of performing contactless communication with a plurality of different data storage media,

the storage part stores data corresponding to each of the data storage media so that the data can be identified, and

when the corruption determination part determines that data stored in a data storage medium is corrupted, the data writing part obtains the data corresponding to the data storage medium from the storage part and writes the data to the data storage medium.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a storage determination part that determines, when the corruption determination part determines that the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted, whether the data is stored in the storage part or not,

wherein when the storage determination part determines that the data is stored in the storage part, the data writing part writes the data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, comprising an initialization part that initializes the data storage medium when the storage determination part determines that the data is not stored in the storage part.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, comprising:

a corruption notification part that provides notification of data corruption when the storage determination part determines that the data is not stored in the storage part; and

a selection accepting part that accepts a selection of whether or not initialization to be performed by the initialization part.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a corruption notification part that provides notification of data corruption when the storage determination part determines that the data is not stored in the storage part; and

a selection accepting part that accepts a selection of whether or not data stored in the storage part is to be written to the data storage medium by the data writing part.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a data reading part that reads the data stored in the data storage medium by the contactless communication part; and

an information processor that performs information processing by using the data read by the data reading part and updates the data,

wherein the data writing part writes the data updated by the information processor to the data storage medium.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the corruption determination part makes the determination when the data reading part reads the data.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the data storage medium stores first data updated by the information processor and second data other than the first data,

the corruption determination part performs determination of corruption of the first data after performing determination of corruption of the second data and determining that the second data is not corrupted, and

when the corruption determination part determines that the first data is corrupted or that the second data is corrupted, the data writing part writes the first data and the second data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium.

10. An information processing system comprising:

a contactless communication part that performs contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function;

a data writing part that writes data to the data storage medium by the contactless communication part;

a storage part that stores the data to be written by the data writing part; and

a corruption determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted or not,

wherein when the corruption determination part determines that the data is corrupted, the data writing part writes the data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium.

11. An information processing method comprising:

performing contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function and writing data to the data storage medium;

performing processing of storing data to be written to a storage part;

determining whether the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted or not; and

writing the data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium when it is determined that the data is corrupted.

12. A non-transitory recording medium recording a computer program that causes a computer to operate as:

a data writing part that performs contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function and writes data to the data storage medium;

a storage processing part that performs processing of storing the data to be written by the data writing part, to a storage part;

a corruption determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium is corrupted or not; and

a data rewriting part that writes the data stored in the storage part to the data storage medium when the corruption determination part determines that the data is corrupted.