公开(公告)号：US11547936B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16521747

申请日：2019-07-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Kenichi Imai ,  Shigeru Enomoto ,  Hiroshi Saito ,  Toshimasa Aoki ,  Satoshi Hashimoto

IPC: G06F8/61 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04L67/06 ,  A63F13/48 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/323 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/79 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04W88/02 ,  A63F13/61 ,  A63F13/71 ,  A63F13/355

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.