Patent ID: 7739659
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An executability determining method for enabling/disabling an application program, in an information processing apparatus, for processing contents data comprising the steps of: determining an application program, for performing contents data reproducing/copying processing of said contents data, by referring to a starting file, said starting file being transmitted from outside the information processing apparatus in correspondence with said contents data; fetching a list of disabled contents information indicating at least one type or version of an application program with execution thereof disabled in the contents data reproducing/copying processing; and verifying whether a type or a version of said application program corresponds with one of the at least one type or version of an application program indicated in said disabled contents information; wherein, when it is determined as a result of the verifying that the type or the version of said application program identified by referring to said starting file corresponds to one of the at least one type or version of an application program described in the list of said disabled contents information, said starting file is not distributed to said application program and contents data is not processed by said application program.