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

• US 20150038238A1
• Filed: 04/21/2014
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ambarella Incorporated, Nintendo Company Limited, 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 10,118,096 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/49 Saving the game status; Pausing or ending the game
• 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 data determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part have a predetermined relationship with each other or not. When the data determination part determines that both of the data do not have the predetermined relationship with each other, the data writing part overwrites the data stored in the data storage medium with the data stored in the storage part.

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 data determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part have a predetermined relationship with each other or not,

wherein when the data determination part determines that both of the data do not have the predetermined relationship with each other, the data writing part overwrites the data stored in the data storage medium with the data stored in the storage part.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the data determination part performs the determination by regarding a case that the data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part coincide with each other as the predetermined relationship.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a writing identification information generating part that generates writing identification information to identify data writing by the data writing part,

wherein the storage part stores the writing identification information generated by the writing identification information generating part,

the data writing part writes data including the writing identification information generated by the writing identification information generating part, to the data storage medium, and

the data determination part performs the determination by at least regarding a case that the writing identification information stored in the data storage medium and the writing identification information stored in the storage part coincide with each other as the predetermined relationship.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the writing identification information is a count value which increases every time the data writing part performs data writing, and

the data determination part performs the determination by regarding a case that the count value stored in the data storage medium is not more than the count value stored in the storage part as the predetermined relationship.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, comprising an information processor that performs information processing and generates progress information related to progress of the information processing,

wherein the storage part stores data including progress information identification information for identifying the progress information,

the data writing part writes the data including the progress information identification information to the data storage medium, and

the data determination part performs the determination by at least regarding a case that the writing identification information stored in the data storage medium and the writing identification information stored in the storage part coincide with each other when the progress information identification information included in the data stored in the data storage medium and the progress information identification information included in the data stored in the storage part coincide with each other as the predetermined relationship.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the storage part stores the progress information including the progress information identification information, and

the data determination part performs the determination by at least regarding a case that the writing identification information stored in the data storage medium and the writing identification information stored in the storage part coincide with each other when the progress information identification information included in the data stored in the data storage medium, the progress information identification information included in the data stored in the storage part and the progress information identification information included in the progress information stored in the storage part coincide with one another as the predetermined relationship.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the progress information includes numerical information that increases or decreases according to the information processing, and

the information processor performs information processing of updating the data stored in the data storage medium with a decrease of the numerical information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, comprising a data reading part that reads the data stored in the data storage medium by the contactless communication part,

wherein the information processor performs the information processing based on the data read by the data reading part and updates the data, and

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

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the data determination part performs the determination when the data reading part performs the data reading.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the data storage medium is capable of storing a plurality of pieces of data, and

the data determination part determines whether any of the pieces of data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part have the predetermined relationship with each other or not.

11. 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 data determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part have a predetermined relationship with each other or not,

wherein when the data determination part determines that both of the data do not have the predetermined relationship with each other, the data writing part overwrites the data stored in the data storage medium with the data stored in the storage part.

12. 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 and the data stored in the storage part have a predetermined relationship with each other or not; and

when determining that both of the data do not have the predetermined relationship with each other, overwriting the data stored in the data storage medium with the data stored in the storage part.

13. 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 data determination part that determines whether the data stored in the data storage medium and the data stored in the storage part have a predetermined relationship with each other or not, and

a data overwriting part that overwrites the data stored in the data storage medium with the data stored in the storage part when the data determination part determines that both of the data do not have the predetermined relationship with each other.