US 11,998,838 B2
Content data holding system, storage medium, content data holding server, and data management method
Takanori Sowa, Tokyo (JP); Nobuyuki Ohta, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Ohnishi, Tokyo (JP); Hiroki Togashi, Tokyo (JP); and Akira Kinashi, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP); and The Pokémon Company, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP); and The Pokémon Company, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/671,429.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-098574 (JP), filed on May 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0376372 A1, Dec. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/73 (2014.01); A63F 13/77 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/35 (2014.09) [A63F 13/73 (2014.09); A63F 13/77 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 2300/206 (2013.01); A63F 2300/403 (2013.01); A63F 2300/407 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A content data holding system comprising:
at least one first server; and
at least one second server different from the at least one first server and configured to communicate with the at least one first server, wherein
the at least one first server comprises:
a content storage medium configured to store content data of content usable in different types of games up to a first upper number of content data;
a management information storage medium configured to store valid period information of a right to use an extended function concerning the content data; and
a processor configured to run a management program of the content data, and the at least one second server is configured to:
receive and store content data transmitted by a first information processing device;
transmit content data requested by the first information processing device to the first information processing device;
perform at least one of transmitting content data to the at least one first server or receiving content data from the at least one first server, wherein
the management program causes the processor to execute:
determining whether the right is valid based on the valid period information stored in the management information storage medium; and
based on the right being determined to not be valid, performing at least one of transmitting content data to the at least one second server or receiving content data from the at least one second server in a restricted manner as compared with a case in which the right is determined to be valid.