Information processing device

• US 8,700,748 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2011
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwaya, Akiko
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, KHANH Q
• Application Number:
  US13/117,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/220, 709/228, 709/232, 709/201, 705/7.19, 705/7.14
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

A setting unit sets a date and a time to start a module. A start-control unit starts the module when the date and the time that were set arrive. The setting unit sets a subsequent date and a subsequent time to start the module in accordance with a situation occurring before or after the module is started by the start-control unit. The setting unit does not set the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the module, if a condition to execute the module is not fulfilled after the module is started by the start-control unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a setting unit configured to set a date and a time to start a download module configured to download a file from a predetermined server, the download module operating to communicate with a predetermined server over a network so as to obtain a software file via an automatic download from the predetermined server over the network without user involvement; and

a start-control unit configured to start the download module when the date and the time that were set arrive, wherein the setting unit sets a subsequent date and a subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with a situation occurring before or after the download module is started by the start-control unit, wherein;

the setting unit sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with an interval of a first predetermined number of days, when a power supply of the information processing device is in an on-state when the download module is started by the start-control unit; and

the setting unit sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with an interval of a second predetermined number of days, when the power supply of the information processing device is in an off-state when the download module is started by the start-control unit.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit determines whether to set the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with a situation occurring before or after the download module is started by the start-control unit.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit does not set the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module, if a condition to execute the download module is not fulfilled after the download module is started by the start-control unit.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein:

the condition to execute the download module is fulfilled when the fact is registered in a server, that the information processing device is permitted to use a predetermined service by executing the download module, and

the information processing device further comprises a determination result acquisition unit configured to acquire from the server a result of a determination of the condition to execute the download module.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module at a date after an interval of a set of first predetermined days, when a power supply of the information processing device is in an on-state before the download module is started by the start-control unit.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein comprises:

a determination unit configured to determine a file to be downloaded from the server;

a download execution unit configured to download the file determined by the determination unit; and

an installation processing unit configured to install the downloaded file,

wherein the download execution unit interrupts the download process if the download process is not completed within a predetermined period of time from when the download module had started, or the installation processing unit interrupts the installation process if the installation process is not completed within a predetermined period of time from when the download process had started, and

wherein the setting unit sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module at a date after an interval of a set of the first predetermined days.

7. A computer program embedded in a non-transitory recording medium, comprising:

a first module configured to set a date and a time to start a download module configured to download a file, the download module operating to communicate with a predetermined server over a network so as to obtain a software file via an automatic download from the predetermined server to an information processing device over the network without user involvement; and

a second module configured to start the download module when the date and time that were set arrive, wherein

the first module sets a subsequent date and a subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with a situation occurring before or after the download module is started,

the first module sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with an interval of a first predetermined number of days, when a power supply of the information processing device is in an on-state when the download module is started by the second module; and

the first module sets the subsequent date and the subsequent time to start the download module in accordance with an interval of a second predetermined number of days, when the power supply of the information processing device is in an off-state when the download module is started by the second module.

8. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon the computer program according to claim 7.