Information processing apparatus capable of enabling selection of user data erase method, data processing method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro KOGA, Jun HAMAGUCHI
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Abstract
A mechanism which makes it possible to automatically and appropriately select an erase method of erasing user data in a shorter time such that the user data can by no means be reproduced, according to the type of a connected nonvolatile storage device. An information processing apparatus determines an erase method of erasing an erase area of the nonvolatile storage device according to a management table generated based on attribute information acquired from the nonvolatile storage device. Then, the image forming apparatus erases information stored in the erase area according to the determined erase method.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus to which different types of nonvolatile storage devices can be connected, comprising:
- a determination unit configured to determine an erase method of erasing an erase area of the nonvolatile storage device which the information processing apparatus is instructed to erase, according to attribute information acquired from the nonvolatile storage device;
- and
- an erasure unit configured to erase information stored in the erase area according to the erase method determined by said determination unit.
A data processing method executed by an information processing apparatus to which different types of nonvolatile storage devices can be connected, comprising:
- determining an erase method of erasing an erase area of the nonvolatile storage device which the information processing apparatus is instructed to erase, according to attribute information acquired from the nonvolatile storage device;
- and
- erasing information stored in the erase area according to the determined erase method.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program for causing a computer to execute a data processing method executed by an information processing apparatus to which different types of nonvolatile storage devices can be connected,
- wherein the data processing method comprises:
- determining an erase method of erasing an erase area of the nonvolatile storage device which the information processing apparatus is instructed to erase, according to attribute information acquired from the nonvolatile storage device;
- and
- erasing information stored in the erase area according to the determined erase method.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.