Patent ID: 8527553

Claim:
A data management apparatus for collecting data generated by a plurality of information terminals, and transmitting, in accordance with a request from one of the plurality of information terminals, necessary data to the one of the plurality of information terminals, the data management apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive, from one of the plurality of information terminals, both ghost data used for reproducing a game process having been executed in accordance with an operation performed by a user of the one of the plurality of information terminals, and data based on score data, the score data representing an index indicating a skill of a game based on the ghost data and the data based on the score data being score-related data, and a database processing section configured to register, in accordance with a definition of a database in which a plurality of score sections are defined based on a value represented by the score data, the ghost data received from the one of the plurality of information terminals into one of the score sections in the database, the one of the score sections corresponding to the score-related data received together with the ghost data.