Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKohji Oshikiri, Masaru Nakamura, Toshiaki Watanabe, Haruo Shida
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus in which an input module, an output module, a process module, and a memory have a plurality of ports and are connected by a packet switch having independent paths for data transmission, a path controlling part determines a process path based on data information from the input module and each data transmission ability required to paths within the image forming apparatus, and conducts a selection control to select a data transmission path in response to data transmission delay time for each process path and a data type of data to be transmitted.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus in which an input module, an output module, a process module, and a memory have a plurality of ports and are connected by a packet switch having independent paths for data transmission, said image forming apparatus comprising a path controlling part determining a process path based on data information from the input module and each data transmission ability required to paths within the image forming apparatus, and conducting a selection control to select a data transmission path in response to data transmission delay time for each process path and a data type of data to be transmitted.
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