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Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshiharu Ito, Toride, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 11/1417 (2013.01);
Abstract

It is an object of the present disclosure to improve robustness against an unintended alteration in data in a volatile memory. An information processing apparatus has a storage unit storing two or more boot programs; a determination unit configured to determine the validity of each of the boot programs; an information generation unit configured to generate volatile information; and a selection unit configured to extract the volatile information at random, selects one of the boot programs on a basis of the extracted volatile information, and in a case where the determination unit determines that the selected boot program is not valid and that another one of the boot programs is valid, perform a process of overwriting the selected boot program with the another boot program.


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