Information processing apparatus and control method for this information processing apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorTadaaki Kinoshita
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a obtaining circuit to obtain control information necessary for an operation requested through a communication with the external device upon the occurrence of one of requests to write the information to the first recording medium and to read the information from the first recording medium by use of the second recording medium, and a controller which performs one of writing of the information to the first and second recording media and reading of the information from the first and second recording media, based on the control information.
Claims9
An information processing apparatus which performs at least one of an operation of directly writing and reading arbitrary information to and from a first recording medium, an operation of temporarily retaining information to be written to the first recording medium in a second recording medium and then writing the information to the first recording medium, and an operation of temporarily retaining information read from the first recording medium in the second recording medium and then reading the information from the second recording medium, in response to a request from an external device, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a obtaining circuit to obtain control information necessary for an operation requested through a communication with the external device upon the occurrence of one of requests to write the information to the first recording medium and read the information from the first recording medium by use of the second recording medium;
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- a controller which performs one of writing of the information to the first and second recording media, and reading of the information from the first and second recording media, based on the control information.
A control method for an information processing apparatus which performs at least one of an operation of directly writing and reading arbitrary information in and from a first recording medium, an operation of temporarily retaining information to be written to the first recording medium in a second recording medium and then writing the information to the first recording medium, and an operation of temporarily retaining information read from the first recording medium in the second recording medium and then reading the information from the second recording medium, in response to a request from an external device, the method comprising:
- obtaining control information necessary for an operation requested through a communication with the external device upon the occurrence of one of requests to write the information to the first recording medium and read the information from the first recording medium by use of the second recording medium;
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- performing one of writing of the information to the first and the second recording media and reading of the information from the first and the second recording media, based on the control information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.