MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20100205149A1
• Filed: 03/12/2009
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sekiya, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/402,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205149A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/640
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1435 using file system or storage system metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process

Abstract

A data memory of an IC card serving as a mobile electronic apparatus stores a record file which stores record data. The data memory has a record area which stores the record data and a data saving area which stores backup data to the record data stored in the record area. When a CPU of the IC card receives a command which requests record data in the record file to be rewritten from an IC card processing apparatus through a communication control unit and an interface, the CPU stores the record data stored in the record area as backup data in the data saving area. The CPU of the IC card rewrites the record data stored in the record area after the backup data is stored in the data saving area.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic apparatus which performs a process according to a command given by an external apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit which stores a record file which stores a plurality of record data;

a data saving process unit which stores record data before rewriting of the record data requested to be rewritten in the record file as backup data, in the case where a command requesting the record data in the record file to be rewritten is given from the external apparatus; and

a rewriting process unit which rewrites the record data according to the command, after the record data before rewriting is stored as backup data by the data saving process unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the record file has a record area which stores record data and a data saving area which stores backup data to the record data stored in the record area,

the data saving process unit stores the record data stored in the record area as backup data in the data saving area, in the case where a command which requests the record data in the record file to be rewritten is given from the external apparatus, and

the rewriting process unit rewrites the record data stored in the record area after the data saving process unit stores the backup data in the data saving area.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the record file is a data file of a format which sequentially stores a plurality of record data in a record area,

the data saving process unit stores the record data before rewriting as backup data in an unused area of the record area in the record file, in the case where a command which requests the record data in the record file to be rewritten is given from the external apparatus, and

the rewriting process unit rewrites the record data stored in the record area of the record file, after the record data before rewriting is stored as backup data by the data saving process unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reading process unit which reads backup data to the record data designated by the command, in the case where a command which requests backup data to the record data in the record file to be read is given from the external apparatus.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data saving process unit adds generation information representing an order of saving to each of the backup data and stores the backup data.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a reading process unit which reads backup data to the record data designated by the command, in the case where a command which requests backup data to the record data in the record file to be read is given from the external apparatus.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data saving process unit deletes the oldest backup data specified by the generation information added to each of the backup data, in the case where existing backup data is deleted with storage of the backup data to the record data.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data saving process unit deletes the oldest backup data of the backup data to the record data, in the case where the number of existing backup data to the record data to be stored as backup data reaches an upper limit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reading process unit sequentially reads the backup data corresponding to the record data according to the information representing the order of saving, in the case where a command which requests backup data to specific record data in the record file to be read is given from the external apparatus in succession.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reading process unit reads all the backup data corresponding to the record data, in the case where a command which requests all backup data to specific record data in the record file to be read is given from the external apparatus.

11. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reading process unit reads all the backup data stored in the record file, in the case where a command which requests all the backup data in the record file to be read is given from the external apparatus.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rewriting process unit performs a recovering process which writes the backup data stored by the data saving process unit as the record data, in the case where rewriting of the record data fails.

13. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reading process unit performs a recovering process which writes the backup data to the record data as the record data, in the case where reading of the record data fails.

14. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the reading process unit performs a backup process which reads the backup data to the record data as the record data, in the case where reading of the record data fails.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the backup process outputs a response representing that the backup data is read in place of the record data because reading of the record data is abnormal together with the read backup data, in the case where backup data to the record data is read in place of the record data.

16. A data management method in a mobile electronic apparatus, comprising:

storing record file which stores a plurality of record data in a storage unit;

storing record data before rewriting of the record data requested to be rewritten in the storage unit as backup data, in the case where a command which requests the record data in the record file to be rewritten is given from an external apparatus; and

rewriting the record data according to the command, after the record data before rewriting is stored as backup data.