INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150331790A1
• Filed: 05/12/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kishi, Kazuya, Okihara, Kenichi, Tagashira, Nobuhiro, Matsui, Keisuke
• Application Number:
  US14/710,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20150331790A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0253 Garbage collection, i.e. reclamation of unreferenced memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/214 Solid state disk
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/7201 Logical to physical mapping or translation of blocks or pages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/7202 Allocation control and policies
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/7205 Cleaning, compaction, garbage collection, erase control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1274 Deleting of print job

Abstract

In a non-volatile memory such as a NAND flash memory, notification of an area that is no longer needed is provided by a TRIM command, and deletion of the unneeded area is executed by garbage collection. The TRIM command and execution of the garbage collection are detected, and notification thereof is provided, whereby the user can confirm that the data on a solid state drive is invalidated.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a job;

a storage unit including a non-volatile memory configured to hold data relating to the job;

a processing unit configured to execute processing specified by the job using the data held in the non-volatile memory;

an output unit configured to issue to the storage unit a deletion request for deleting from the non-volatile memory the data relating to the job processed by the processing unit;

an acquisition unit configured to make an inquiry to the storage unit about a data deletion status of the non-volatile memory and acquire status information indicating the data deletion status from the storage unit; and

a notification unit configured to provide, based on the status information, notification indicating that the data relating to the job is deleted from the non-volatile memory.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a judgment unit configured to determine, based on the data deletion status, whether the data relating to the job is deleted from the non-volatile memory.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the judgment unit determines whether the data relating to the job is deleted from the non-volatile memory based on a first table that holds information indicating a correspondence between a job received by the reception unit and a file corresponding to the job and a second table that holds information indicating a correspondence between the file and a page in the non-volatile memory.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, based on the first table, the judgment unit calculates progress of deletion processing on the data relating to the job.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit outputs as the deletion request an instruction for executing garbage collection.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the status information indicates whether data held in each page corresponding to a file corresponding to the job is deleted.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the non-volatile memory is a solid state drive (SSD).

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deletion request is a TRIM command according to an Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standard.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inquiry is a command for acquiring Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) information.

10. An information processing method comprising:

receiving a job;

holding data relating to the job in a non-volatile memory;

executing processing specified by the job using the data held in the non-volatile memory;

issuing a deletion request for deleting from the non-volatile memory the data relating to the job processed in the processing;

inquiring about a data deletion status of the non-volatile memory and acquiring the data deletion status; and

providing, based on the acquired data deletion status, notification indicating that the data relating to the job is deleted from the non-volatile memory.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute computer executable instructions for an information processing method, the information processing method comprising:

receiving a job;

holding data relating to the job in a non-volatile memory;

executing processing specified by the job using the data held in the non-volatile memory;

issuing a deletion request for deleting from the non-volatile memory the data relating to the job processed in the processing;

inquiring about a data deletion status of the non-volatile memory and acquiring the data deletion status; and

providing, based on the acquired data deletion status, notification indicating that the data relating to the job is deleted from the non-volatile memory.