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Information processing apparatus and driver execution control method

  • US 20110302444A1
  • Filed: 03/30/2011
  • Published: 12/08/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information processing apparatus connected with a plurality of devices and configured to execute driver programs associated with the respective devices to control the devices, comprising:

  • a process monitor configured to monitor status of processes executed in accordance with monitored driver programs, respectively, which are to be monitored among the driver programs;

    an error processor configured to operate when error is detected by the process monitor during execution of the process in accordance with any one of the monitored driver programs, to register, in a nonvolatile memory, driver information indicating the driver program with respect to which the error has been detected; and

    an execution controller configured to call and execute the driver programs associated with the respective devices, wherein when the information processing apparatus is restarted, the execution controller looks up the nonvolatile memory and skips execution of the driver program indicated by the driver information registered in the nonvolatile memory.

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