Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Noriyuki Murata

Fumio Tsuyama

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Yasuhiko Yokote

The workload is heavy in the development of an application program that controls the task distribution in consideration of the variety of the execution environment. In a system where the processing is distributed to SPUs serving as plural processing entities so as to execute the computer program, the data processing is broken into plural units of processing by referring to the script code in which the content of the data processing is written, and the units of processing are assigned to the plural SPUs. Then, the whole computer program is executed when the SPUs execute the assigned process.

System and method for distributing data processes among resources

A plurality of metadata relating to digital contents is presented to a user as a package. A media capsule provision server which comprises a media capsule structure information database for storing metadata relating to the digital contents, contents list structure information, a Raw data database, media capsule providing means for packaging the plurality of metadata stored in the database, media capsule distribution processing means for distributing the media capsule to a user, and a media capsule destination information database for managing the destination information is provided.

Metadata distribution management system, apparatus, and method, and computer program therefore

An information image utilization system and so forth by which it is possible to particularly set the access right and so forth relating to utilization of an apparatus information image and utilization of an apparatus through the apparatus information image to perform authentication. A client () issues a request for provision of ownership information of an apparatus information image (indicating an apparatus possessed by a user of the client ()) to an information image management server (). The information image management server () extracts user IDs of owners of the apparatus information image and attribute information of copy information image data corresponding to the owners from an apparatus information image management table, and transmits the user IDs and the attribute information to the client (). On the other hand, if an instruction to change the attribute information or to delete the copy information image or the like is transmitted from the client (), then the information image management server () updates contents of the apparatus information image management table and updates contents of a folder management table.

Using an information image to perform a predetermined action

A content information image and an information image utilizing system with an access right and an authentication function. In the information image utilizing system (), copy information image data including identifying information (serial ID, master ID, provider ID, version information, and the like) and attribute information (ownership condition, time limit information, and the like) of the content information image is placed in an information image managing server (), enabling an information image providing unit to grasp and manage an owner of the information image. Use of the content information image is limited to a client () satisfying the identifying information and the attribute information retained by the content information image.

Distributing an information image

There is provided an information image utilizing system for setting in detail access rights with respect to performing communications and sending and receiving information through a user information image, which specifies a communication destination user or the like and performs communications and sending and receiving information, and performing authentication based on such access rights. A client () requests an information image managing server () to provide ownership information of a user information image of its own. The information image managing server () extracts user IDs of owners of the user information image and attribute information of copy information image data corresponding to those owners from an information image managing table. The server () sends the user IDs and the attribute information to the client (). When an instruction to change the attribute information or delete the copy information image is sent from the client (), the information image managing server () updates the contents of the information image managing table. The information image managing server () sends the updated contents to a folder managing server () to update the contents of a folder managing table.

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Tokyo, Japan

Noriyuki Murata