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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2010
Yasuharu Seki, Chiba, JP;
Yoshitaka Onuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Konno, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus is described which includes a list fetching section for fetching, from outside, a list of disabled contents information indicating disabling execution of an application program, when the contents data is subjected to a contents data reproducing/copying process for at least reproducing or copying the contents data. When it is determined that a type and/or a version of the application program identified by referring to the starting file corresponds to a type and/or a version of any disabled application program described in the list of disabled contents information, the starting file is not distributed to the application program.