Patent ID: 9682323
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A first information processing apparatus of a first user comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, over a network, image data in which game play of a game is recorded or image data of the game play of the game currently being played by a second user of a further client information processing apparatus, and to acquire information over the network from the further client information processing apparatus for identifying software of the game; a display processing unit configured to display an image of the game play using the acquired image data and to display an image for acquiring the software of the game while the image of the game play is being displayed or after completion of the display of the image of the game play; a reception unit configured to receive an input operation from the first user in the image for acquiring the software of the game; a request generation unit configured to generate, based on the received operation from the first user and using the acquired information for identifying the software of the game, a request for accessing a screen image for acquiring the software of the game; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated request for accessing the screen image from the first client information processing apparatus to a network server, wherein the request is used for facilitating a download of the software of the game from the network server to a destination, where the destination is a second client information processing apparatus of the first user.