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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2003
Applicant:
Kotaro Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kotaro Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka-Shi, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer program for a controlling apparatus intended to control an image forming apparatus, executes a procedure of confirming each program running on the controlling apparatus. The computer program executes procedure of judging a program, which is not included in a preset list of programs that can be run to control the image forming apparatus among programs whose running states have been confirmed, as an illegal program resulting from computer virus infection. The illegal program is automatically deleted or isolated.