Patent ID: 8342960
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An information processor comprising: a related identification information retaining unit, which stores identification information of a title series of one or more games, relating the identification information of a game to the identification information of another game that was previously released in the title series; a program storage unit, which stores an application program; a data storage unit, which stores, in a memory, user save data of a previously-activated application program, by using identification information of the previously-activated application program as a directory name or a file name for the user save data; an operation input receiving unit for receiving an operation input from a user to select an application program to be executed; an execution unit for reading the selected application program from the program storage unit and executing the read application program, and for monitoring a request from the user to acquire user save data while the application program is being executed; a title identification information acquisition unit, which acquires identification information of the game whose application program is being executed by the execution unit; a related title acquisition unit, which acquires, from the related identification information retaining unit, the identification information of another application program of the title series to which the game of the executed application program belongs, upon the request from the user to acquire previously-stored user save data while the application program is being executed; an identification unit, which identifies the previously-stored user save data stored in the data storage unit based on the identification information acquired by the related title acquisition unit; a notification unit, which, when the identification unit identifies the previously-stored user save data as being of the title series to which the executed application program belongs, notifies the user of information on the identified user save data, via a display unit or an audio output unit; and a storage control unit, which, when the operation input receiving unit receives the operation input from the user to select the user save data after the notification unit notifies the user of the information, replicates the selected user save data in the data storage unit by using the identification information of the application title of the application program that is being executed for the directory name or the file name.