Information Processing Device
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorsTsutomu Gamou, Hiroyuki Obinata, Naoki Tanaka
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus include: providing a computer having a program execution module for carrying out a process according to a program; providing an execution control module, connected to the program execution module; carrying out mutual authentication, within the execution control module, with respect to the program execution module; carrying out a process for authentication relative to an object program for execution by the program execution module; and preventing the program execution module from executing the object program until the object program is successfully authenticated.
Claims5
An information processing device, comprising:
- a program execution module for carrying out a process according to a program;
- and
- an execution control module connected to the program execution module and operable to:
- (i) carry out mutual authentication with respect to the program execution module, (ii) carry out a process for authentication relative to an object program for execution by the program execution module, and (iii) prevent the program execution module from executing the object program until the object program is successfully authenticated.
A program execution control method, comprising:
- providing a computer having a program execution module for carrying out a process according to a program;
- providing an execution control module, connected to the program execution module;
- carrying out mutual authentication, within the execution control module, with respect to the program execution module;
- carrying out a process for authentication relative to an object program for execution by the program execution module;
- and
- preventing the program execution module from executing the object program until the object program is successfully authenticated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.