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US 6,480,916 B1Granted
Information processing method and system for composite appliance
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJunichi Shishizuka, Yasuhisa Ishizawa, Satoshi Nagata, Atsushi Date, Ken Onodera
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Abstract
A generated job is divided in units of pages, and devices for executing processes for the respective pages are assigned. While the processing results of the devices for pages as processing units complement each other so as not to decrease the communication or data transfer speed by controlling the use of a plurality of buses, data are written and read in parallel.
Claims10
An information processing method for a composite appliance, comprising:
- a division step of dividing a job into constituent elements;
- a device management step of managing assignment of a device for each of the divided elements;
- and
- a bus control step of controlling use of a plurality of buses in order to perform processes of the devices corresponding to the divided elements in parallel.
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An information processing system for a composite appliance, comprising:
- division means for dividing a job into constituent elements;
- device management means for managing assignment of a device for each of the divided elements;
- and
- bus control means for controlling use of a plurality of buses in order to perform processes of the devices corresponding to the divided elements in parallel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.