Power management apparatus, and method of providing game contents

摘要

There is provided a power management apparatus including a game service providing unit providing, to an electronic appliance, a service using game contents whose theme is power. The game service providing unit includes a game control unit controlling execution of the game contents, a real world constructing unit constructing a setting of a game reflecting a real-world environment, based on managed appliance information stored in a database, and a virtual world constructing unit constructing a setting of the game reflecting a virtual environment, based on a setting set in advance in the game contents. The game control unit is operable to initialize the game contents by combining the setting of the game constructed by the real world constructing unit and the setting of the game constructed by the virtual world constructing unit.

主权项

1. A power management apparatus comprising:
a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance; a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance; a database storing the managed appliance information; and a game service providing unit providing, to the electronic appliance, a service using game contents whose theme is power, wherein the game service providing unit includes
a game controlling execution of the game contents,a real world constructing unit constructing a setting of a game reflecting a real-world environment, based on the managed appliance information stored in the database, anda virtual world constructing unit constructing a setting of the game reflecting a virtual environment based on a setting set in advance in the game contents, and wherein the control unit is operable to initialize the game contents by combining the setting of the same constructed b the real world constructing unit and the setting of the game constructed by the virtual world constructing unit, and wherein position information indicating a location of the electronic appliance is described in the database, and wherein the real world constructing unit is operable to arrange an object corresponding to the electronic appliance registered as the managed appliance in a game stage based on the position information.