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US08427659B2 Information processing apparatus which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device, method of controlling same, recording medium and printer which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device 有权
可以选择性地操作为存储装置或打印机装置的信息处理装置,其控制方法,可以选择性地作为存储装置或打印机装置操作的记录介质和打印机

  • Patent Title: Information processing apparatus which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device, method of controlling same, recording medium and printer which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device
  • Patent Title (中): 可以选择性地操作为存储装置或打印机装置的信息处理装置,其控制方法,可以选择性地作为存储装置或打印机装置操作的记录介质和打印机
  • Application No.: US12603105
    Application Date: 2009-10-21
  • Publication No.: US08427659B2
    Publication Date: 2013-04-23
  • Inventor: Ryusuke Okuhara
  • Applicant: Ryusuke Okuhara
  • Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
  • Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
  • Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
  • Priority: JP2008-291495 20081113
  • Main IPC: G06F3/12
  • IPC: G06F3/12 G06K15/00
Information processing apparatus which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device, method of controlling same, recording medium and printer which can selectively operate as storage device or printer device
Abstract:
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a memory storing a first descriptor indicating that the information processing apparatus operates as a storage device, a second descriptor indicating that the information processing apparatus operates as another device different from the storage device, and a driver which is used by the host apparatus in order to control the information processing apparatus as the other device in accordance with a given standard; a communication unit which, at the start of communication with the host apparatus, transmits the first descriptor to the host apparatus and communicates with the host apparatus in such a manner that the host apparatus is capable of accessing the driver; and a changing unit for changing the descriptor that the communication unit transmits to the host apparatus to the second descriptor after the driver has been accessed from the host apparatus.
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