US 12,086,580 B2
Information processing device, delivery server, and function execution method
Takuya Kawasaki, Tokyo (JP); and Masaki Takahashi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/438,957
Filed by SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/012617
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/203392, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-068190 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147339 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01); A63F 13/77 (2014.01); G06F 8/71 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/65 (2013.01) [A63F 13/77 (2014.09); G06F 8/71 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
 
1. An information processing device configured to access a first region for recording software that implements a plurality of functions and a second region for
recording an update file for each of the functions of the software, the information processing
device comprising:
circuitry configured to execute the functions of the software,
and on condition that the update file for a function to be executed is recorded in the second region, the circuitry is configured to execute the update file,
wherein
the first region and the second region are different partitions of a same auxiliary storage device, and
the first region is a user-unwritable region and the second region is a user-writable region,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
download the update file for each of the functions of the software from a delivery server,
on condition that an update file associated with version information regarding the software recorded in the first region exists for download in the delivery server,
download the update file associated with the version information,
install the downloaded update file in the second region,
download an update package for the software, and
uninstall, when installing the update package in the first region, any update file recorded in the second region.