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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11547936 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2019

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenichi Imai, Tokyo, JP;

Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroshi Saito, Tokyo, JP;

Toshimasa Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;

Satoshi Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Matthew B. Dernier, Esq.

Primary Examiner:

Wei Y Zhen

Assistant Examiner:

Amir Soltanzadeh

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2018.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04L 67/06 (2022.01); A63F 13/48 (2014.01); A63F 13/86 (2014.01); A63F 13/323 (2014.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); A63F 13/61 (2014.01); A63F 13/71 (2014.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/48 (2014.09); A63F 13/323 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/61 (2014.09); A63F 13/71 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/86 (2014.09); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); H04L 67/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/4781 (2013.01); H04N 21/47815 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.09); A63F 2300/209 (2013.01); A63F 2300/552 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5533 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5566 (2013.01); A63F 2300/572 (2013.01); A63F 2300/6009 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus provide for downloading application software from a server, including: downloading the application software from the server, where a first application software file contains only a portion of the application software, and a second application software file contains more than the portion of the application software; executing the application software and generating application images based thereon, where execution of the first application software file contains enough of the application software to execute a limited amount of the application software; and displaying the application images on a display screen based on the execution of the application software, where the acquisition unit begins downloading the second application software file in a background process after downloading the first application software file and at least partially during the execution of the first application software file.

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