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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshihisa Tadokoro, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
Abstract
An information processing method includes a first step of detecting, upon reception of an instruction to start a first program, if a second program which uses a resource to be used by the first program is already being executed, and a second step of terminating the execution of the second program and for starting the first program when it has been detected that the second program is being executed.