Patent ID: 8918604

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: one or more processors operable to: read an application program recorded on an optical disc, wherein the optical disc comprises: a current version of the application program serving as content, a first root certificate that is issued to the current version of the application program, and a second root certificate that is issued to another version of the application program recorded on another optical disc, the another optical disc including the second root certificate, wherein the second root certificate is issued to the another version of the application program before the first root certificate is issued to the current version of the application program; create, in a memory, a first folder for storing data to be processed by the current version of the application program, the first folder being associated with the first root certificate; and copy, based on determining whether the second root certificate is recorded on the optical disc, a communication record stored in a second folder to the first folder when the second folder exists in the memory, the second folder being associated with the second root certificate, wherein data stored in the second folder that corresponds to the another version is merged with the data stored in the first folder that corresponds to the current version based on the communication record copied to the first folder.