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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsNobuyuki Nitta, Ryuuichi Satoh
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An information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus in response to completion of a specific software activation process in the controller, transmits an activation completion notification to the operation device and the operation device in response to receiving the activation completion notification, updates a timeout period of a timer started after activation of software of the operation device to a shorter period of time and restart the timer, and in a case data communication is not established on the communication path within the updated timeout period, detects a malfunction and notifies the controller of the malfunction, and the controller performs a recovery process.
An information processing apparatus comprising a controller and an operation device communicably connected to each other through a communication path,
An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus comprising a controller and an operation device, the method comprising:
A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors on an information processing apparatus comprising a controller and an operation device, causes the processors to perform an information processing method, including:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.