Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Munetoshi Eguchi

Tomohiro Suzuki

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Tomoya Ogawa

Fumikage Uchida

Yuji Tamura

Hiroyasu Nishimura

Nao Moromizato

Masayuki Yasukaga

Kenji Okuyama

Hiroaki Yago

If a defect flag stored in a CFwhile a BIOS is being booted, an information processing deviceboots a second program stored in an external deviceconnected to a connection section, and if the defect flag is not detected, the information processing deviceconfirms whether or not the first program is bootable. If the first program is confirmed to be bootable, the first program is booted and if not, the defect flag is set in the CFand the power of the information processing apparatusis turned off.

Information processing apparatus and program

An image processing apparatus comprises a memory; a store control section to divide and store image data in plural vacant memory regions in the memory; and an image administrating information registering section to register each divided image data divided by the store control section by correlating position information of each divided image data in the image data before dividing the image data with storing position information of each divided image data indicating a storing memory region.

Image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus including: a first recording medium which stores a first program; a connection section which is capable of connecting to a second recording medium outside of the information processing apparatus; an instruction input section to input, while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state, an instruction for booting a second program stored in the second recording medium that is connected to the connection section on booting of the BIOS; and a controller which, performs a check when booting of a BIOS, if the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state; in case when the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input is confirmed, the control section boots the second program; and in case when it is not confirmed, the control section boots the first program.

A data processing apparatus which saves data in a volatile memory into a nonvolatile memory when power is off, the data processing apparatus including:

Data processing apparatus and program

An information processing apparatus including: a first recording medium which stores a first program; a connection section which is capable of connecting with a second recording medium from outside; and a controller which determines, during BIOS boot-up operation, whether or not the connection section is connected with the second recording medium which stores predetermined authentication information, and if connected, boots a second program stored in the second recording medium, while if not connected, boots the first program stored in the first recording medium.

A memory apparatus including: a cache control section to control a cache memory for an auxiliary storage apparatus; a volatile memory; and a nonvolatile memory, wherein the cache memory for the auxiliary storage apparatus is configured to have a volatile cache memory provided in the volatile memory and a nonvolatile cache memory provided in the nonvolatile memory, and wherein the cache control section accesses the nonvolatile cache memory using a write back method.

Memory apparatus, cache control method, and cache control program

An information processing apparatus including: a nonvolatile memory; a volatile system memory in which predetermined data stored in the nonvolatile memory is developed; a control section to save the predetermined data stored in the system memory in the nonvolatile memory when a start of power-off operation is detected; and a storage section that stores a first timing information representing a time point of terminating the operation of saving the predetermined data in the nonvolatile memory, and a second timing information representing a power-off time point, wherein the control section compares the first timing information stored in the storage section with the second timing information, subsequent to the next operation of turning on of the power.

Verifying the validity of data saved at power down by comparing the time of save to time of power-off upon start up

An image processing apparatus comprises an input section which inputs a user identification information; and a registration section which registers an image data in association with the user identification information.

Image processing apparatus and image processing system

A memory administrating method of administrating a memory divided into plural regions each of which consists of consecutive memory addresses, where the method includes the steps of: providing each region of the plural regions with usage information; and when releasing a release target region currently in use, determining usage of the release target region based on the usage information of at least one of neighboring regions positioned before and after the release target region.

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Hachioji, Japan

Munetoshi Eguchi