Patent ID: 8968094
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: A63F,H04L,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A power management apparatus comprising: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance; a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance; a database storing the managed appliance information; and a game service providing unit providing, to the electronic appliance, a service using game contents whose theme is power, wherein the game service providing unit includes wherein the control unit is operable to initialize the game contents by combining the setting of the same constructed b the real world constructing unit and the setting of the game constructed by the virtual world constructing unit, and wherein position information indicating a location of the electronic appliance is described in the database, and wherein the real world constructing unit is operable to arrange an object corresponding to the electronic appliance registered as the managed appliance in a game stage based on the position information.