INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM

• US 20180232263A1
• Filed: 10/18/2016
• Published: 08/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Yasutomo
• Granted Patent: US 10,459,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1273 Print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/46 Multiprogramming arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

In the present invention, an information processing apparatus having an application platform comprises a unit that, when an event occurs within information processing apparatus, obtains log information of the event via the platform and record the log information to a log file; a unit that, via an interface for an application of a first type that operates on the platform, when the application of the first type performs a writing of application information, records the written application information to a log file; and a unit that collects a log file that an application of a second type, that operates on the platform, manages.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus having a platform that is an operation environment of an application, the information processing apparatus comprising:

first recording means for, as a function of a log management application that operates on the platform, when an event occurs within information processing apparatus, obtaining log information of the event via the platform and record the log information to a log file;

second recording means for, as a function of the log management application, via an interface for an application of a first type that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, when the application of the first type performs a writing of application information, recording the written application information to a log file; and

collection means for, as a function of the log management application, collecting a log file that an application of a second type, that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, manages.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising output means for outputting in one batch the log files recorded by the first recording means and the second recording means and the log file collected by the collection means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the collection means deletes a duplicate portion that was previously outputted by the output means from a collected log file and then outputs the log file.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the collection means identifies, from a collected log file, the duplicate portion that was previously outputted by the output means based on an end and a size of the duplicate portion that was previously output.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the collection means uses a time managed by the information processing apparatus itself to change a file name of a collected log file.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first recording means records the log information of the event to a log file obtained via the platform at a timing of at least either an event occurrence, an activation of the information processing apparatus, or a file output process.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first recording means includes means for obtaining setting information of the information processing apparatus, and also records obtained setting information as the log file.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first recording means records to the log file application information written by the application of the first type which has a predetermined authority.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the collection means collects a log file that the application of the second type, which has a predetermined authority, manages.

10. A method of processing information by a log management application operating on a platform that an information processing apparatus has, the method comprising:

when an event occurs within the information processing apparatus, obtaining log information of the event via the platform and recording the log information to a log file;

via an interface for an application of a first type that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, when the application of the first type performs a writing of application information, recording the written application information to a log file; and

collecting a log file that an application of a second type, that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, manages.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium recording a program for causing, by a computer having a platform that is an operation environment of an application, an information processing method according to a log management application operating on the platform to be executed, the method comprising:

when an event occurs within the information processing apparatus, obtaining log information of the event via the platform and recording the log information to a log file;

via an interface for an application of a first type that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, when the application of the first type performs a writing of application information, recording the written application information to a log file; and

collecting a log file that an application of a second type, that operates on the platform and is different to the log management application, manages.