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US 8,078,635 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshinari Higuchi, Masaki Mikamo
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a communication connection section that is communicably connected to an external apparatus; a first storage section that stores a predetermined program to be executed by the external apparatus, and for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited; a second storage section to which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited; and a write section that reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section when the information processing apparatus is communicably connected to the external apparatus by the communication connection section and writes the read out program in the second storage section.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a communication connection section that is communicably connected to an external apparatus;
- a first storage section that stores a predetermined program to be executed by the external apparatus, and for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited;
- a second storage section to which read/write operation from the external apparatus is permitted;
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- a write section, including a processor, that reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section when the information processing apparatus is communicably connected to the external apparatus by the communication connection section and writes the read out program in the second storage section such that the external apparatus executes the program in the second storage section by communicating with the second storage section through the communication connection section;
- wherein in the case where the predetermined program is stored in the second storage section, the write section reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section and overwrites the predetermined program stored in the second storage section with the read out program;
- wherein even when an overwrite inhibition attribute that inhibits the predetermined program from being overwritten is set for the predetermined program stored in the second storage section, the write section overwrites the predetermined program with the program stored in the first storage section.
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An information processing method comprising:
- establishing a communication connection to an external apparatus;
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- reading out, using a processor, a predetermined program stored in a first storage section for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited and writing the read out program in a second storage section to which read/write operation from the external apparatus is permitted;
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- receiving communications from the external apparatus as the external apparatus executes the program in the second storage section;
- wherein in the case where the predetermined program is stored in the second storage section, the write section reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section and overwrites the predetermined program stored in the second storage section with the read out program;
- wherein even when an overwrite inhibition attribute that inhibits the predetermined program from being overwritten is set for the predetermined program stored in the second storage section, the write section overwrites the predetermined program with the program stored in the first storage section.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a program that causes a computer to execute a method comprising:
- establishing a communication connection to an external apparatus;
- reading out, using a processor, a predetermined program stored in a first storage section for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited and writing the read out program in a second storage section to which read/write operation from the external apparatus is permitted;
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- receiving communications from the external apparatus as the external apparatus executes the program in the second storage section;
- wherein in the case where the predetermined program is stored in the second storage section, the write section reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section and overwrites the predetermined program stored in the second storage section with the read out program;
- wherein even when an overwrite inhibition attribute that inhibits the predetermined program from being overwritten is set for the predetermined program stored in the second storage section, the write section overwrites the predetermined program with the program stored in the first storage section.
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An information processing system comprising:
- an information processing apparatus including
- a communication connection section that is communicably connected to an external apparatus;
- a first storage section that stores a predetermined program to be executed by the external apparatus, and for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited;
- a second storage section to which read/write operation from the external apparatus is permitted;
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- a write section, including a processor, that reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section when the information processing apparatus is communicably connected to the external apparatus by the communication connection section and writes the read out program in the second storage section;
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- the external apparatus configured to execute the program in the second storage section of the information processing apparatus by communicating with the second storage section through the communication connection section of the information processing apparatus;
- wherein in the case where the predetermined program is stored in the second storage section, the write section reads out the predetermined program stored in the first storage section and overwrites the predetermined program stored in the second storage section with the read out program;
- wherein even when an overwrite inhibition attribute that inhibits the predetermined program from being overwritten is set for the predetermined program stored in the second storage section, the write section overwrites the predetermined program with the program stored in the first storage section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.