Information processor
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsAkihiko NISHIOKA, Toshiyuki SHIMADA
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Abstract
An information processor according to the present invention is designed to operate in accordance with a right to use a content that is stored on a first storage medium. The first storage medium has a write-once area on which right-to-use information is writable a limited number of times, and a data area on which data of the content is stored. The information processor includes: a second storage medium; a right-to-use information generating section, which generates right-to-use information indicating whether the first storage medium or the second storage medium holds the right to use the content; and a drive device that writes the right-to-use information on the write-once area.
Claims10
An information processor for operating in accordance with a right to use a content that is stored on a first storage medium,
- wherein the first storage medium has:
- a write-once area on which right-to-use information is writable a limited number of times;
- and
- a data area on which data of the content is stored, and wherein the information processor comprises:
- a second storage medium;
- a right-to-use information generating section, which generates right-to-use information indicating whether the first storage medium or the second storage medium holds the right to use the content;
- and
- a drive device that writes the right-to-use information on the write-once area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.