Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Content data holding system, storage medium, content data holding server, and data management method
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Application No.: US16671429Application Date: 2019-11-01
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Publication No.: US11998838B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Takanori Sowa , Nobuyuki Ohta , Takahiro Ohnishi , Hiroki Togashi , Akira Kinashi
- Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd. , The Pokémon Company
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.,The Pokémon Company
- Current Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.,The Pokémon Company
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto; JP Tokyo
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderbye, P.C.
- Priority: JP 19098574 2019.05.27
- Main IPC: A63F13/00
- IPC: A63F13/00 ; A63F13/35 ; A63F13/73 ; A63F13/77 ; A63F13/79

Abstract:
A server includes a content storage medium configured to store content data of content usable in different types of games up to a first upper number, and a management information storage medium configured to store valid period information of a right to use an extended function concerning the content data The server, in case that a right to use an extended function is valid, sends the content data to an information-processing device or receives the content data from the information-processing device, and stores the content data in the content storage medium up to a second upper number larger than the first upper number. The server, in case that the right is invalid, performs at least one of transmission of the content data to the information-processing device and reception of the content data from the information-processing device, in a restricted manner as compared with a case where the right is valid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200376372A1 CONTENT DATA HOLDING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, CONTENT DATA HOLDING SERVER, AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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