Information processing system, information processing device, storage medium storing information processing program, information processing method, and storage device

• US 9,806,770 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimohata, Yasuyuki, Hyodo, Kimiharu, Yoshida, Ryuichi, Abe, Goro, Yamasoto, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Nwugo, Ojiako
• Application Number:
  US14/701,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20150317100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 340 51- 58, 340 101- 105, 3405721-5729, 711163, 711164
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/78 to assure secure storage of data address-based protection against unauthorised use of memory G06F12/14; record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0622 in relation to access
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation

Abstract

An example of information processing system includes a storage device; and an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device. The storage device includes a storage unit storing application data usable in a predetermined application program and shared data usable in an application program regardless of whether the application program is the predetermined application program. The information processing system receives an instruction regarding data read and/or data write from/to the storage device from an application program to be executed by the information processing device. Under the condition that the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the application data is passed to the predetermined application program. Regardless of whether the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the shared data is passed to the application program that issued the instruction.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a storage device; and

an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device;

wherein;

the storage device stores shared data which relates to an object appearing in a predetermined application program and which is usable in an application program regardless of whether the application program is the predetermined application program; and

at least one processor included in the information processing device executes;

a first process of, for executing the predetermined application program, outputting information relating to the object to an output device using the shared data read from the storage device; and

a second process of, for executing an application program different from the predetermined application program, outputting information relating to the object to the output device using the shared data read from the storage device, the second process being different from the first process.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor further executes:

determining, when near field communication is possible between the information processing device and a storage device, whether the storage device is a permitted storage device, an access to which by an application program to be executed by the information processing device is permitted; and

under the condition that the storage device with which the near field communication is possible for the information processing device is a permitted storage device, permitting the application program to be executed by the information processing device to use the shared data.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the processor executes a process of displaying the object on a display device as the first process; and

the processor executes, as the second process, a process of displaying the object on the display device, the process being different from the first process.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor executes, as the second process, a process of displaying the object in a different display state from the display state in which the object is displayed in the first process.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when executing a game application program different from the predetermined application program, the processor executes, as the second process, a process that does not influence progress of the game.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the storage device has an external appearance representing, three-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, an object represented by the shared data.

7. An information processing system, comprising:

a storage device; and

an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device;

wherein

the storage device;

has an external appearance representing, three-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, an object that appears in a virtual space generated by executing a predetermined application program by the information processing device, and

stores first identification information relating to the object and second identification information relating to a group to which the object belongs; and

at least one processor included in the information processing device executes a predetermined process using the first identification information read from the storage device and executes the predetermined process using the second identification information read from the storage device.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the processor executes:

determining, while executing an application program, whether the first identification information read from the storage device represents a value registered in the application program that is being executed;

determining whether the second identification information read from the storage device represents a value registered in the application program that is being executed; and

in the case where at least one of the first identification information and the second identification information read from the storage device represents a value registered in the application program that is being executed, executing the predetermined process in the application program.

9. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein:

the predetermined process is a process on the object;

in the case where the first identification information read from the storage device represents a value registered in the application program that is being executed, the processor specifies the object using the first identification information; and

in the case where the first identification information read from the storage device does not represent a value registered in the application program that is being executed and the second identification information read from the storage device represents a value registered in the application program that is being executed, the processor specifies the object using the second identification information.

10. A storage device for performing near field communication with an information processing device;

wherein the storage device;

has an external appearance representing, three-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, an object which appears in a virtual space generated by executing a predetermined application program by the information processing device; and

stores application data usable in the predetermined application program and shared data usable in an application program regardless of whether the application program is the predetermined application program.