System for recording processing operations of one processing apparatus and reflecting contents of the operations which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting

• US 5,894,585 A
• Filed: 02/24/1995
• Issued: 04/13/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Sunao, Sasaki, Akitomo
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Anderson I.
• Application Number:
  US08/393,909
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.03, 395/200.05, 395/850, 395/200, 395/500, 395/700, 364/400, 364/900
• US Class Current: 710/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2064 while ensuring consistency
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2082 Data synchronisation

Abstract

In an information processing method of causing a plurality of information processing apparatuses to process information, the contents of a processing operation for data are stored in an information processing apparatus main body, the stored contents of the processing operation are recorded in a portable recording medium, and the data in another information processing apparatus is processed in accordance with the contents of the processing operation recorded in the recording medium.

Claims

1. An information processing method of causing a plurality of information processing apparatuses to process information, comprising the steps of:

recording contents of a processing operation for data in recording means in one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses;

recording the recorded contents of the processing operation together with identification information identifying the one information processing apparatus in a portable recording medium; and

reflecting the recorded contents of the processing operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses in accordance with the contents of the processing operation and the identification information recorded in the portable recording medium, wherein said reflecting step includes reflecting the recorded contents of the processing operation which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of reading an identification code of each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of recording the identification code of each information processing apparatus together with the contents of the processing operation for the data.

4. A method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of registering an identification code of an information processing apparatus to be used.

5. A method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of deleting the recorded contents of the processing operation on the basis of an identification code of a registered information processing apparatus, and the identification code of each information processing apparatus which is recorded together with the contents of the processing operation for the data.

6. An information processing method in processing information by using a plurality of independent information processing apparatuses having respective information storages, comprising the steps:

recording, in recording means, editing information representing results of an editing operation including one of a modification, an addition, and a deletion of the information stored in any one of the plurality of information storages together with identification information identifying one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses having the one information storage; and

reflecting the results of the editing operation of the information in the information storage of each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses in accordance with the editing information and the identification information stored in the recording means, wherein said reflecting step reflects the results of the editing operation which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein the recording means is a portable recording medium.

8. An information processing apparatus of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, comprising:

first recording means, arranged in a main body of one of the information processing apparatuses, for recording contents of a processing operation performed on data;

a portable recording medium for recording the contents of the processing operation recorded in said first recording means together with identification information identifying the one information processing apparatus; and

operating means for reflecting the recorded contents of the processing operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses in accordance with the contents of the processing operation recorded in said portable recording medium, wherein the reflecting includes reflecting the recorded contents of the processing operation which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

9. An apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising means for reading an identification code of each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising second recording means for recording the identification code of each information processing apparatus together with the contents of the processing operation for the data.

11. An apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising means for registering an identification code of an information processing apparatus to be used.

12. An apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising means for deleting the recorded contents of the processing operation on the basis of an identification code of the information processing apparatus which is registered in said registering means, and the identification code of each information processing apparatus which is recorded in said second recording means.

13. An information processing apparatus for use as part of a plurality of such information processing apparatuses, comprising:

a plurality of independent information storages capable of storing identical information;

means for recording editing information representing results of an editing operation including one of a modification, an addition, and a deletion of information stored in any of said plurality of information storages together with identification information identifying one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses having the one information storage; and

means for reflecting the results of the editing operation of the information in the information storage of each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses in accordance with the editing information and the identification information stored in the recording means, wherein the reflecting includes reflecting the results of the editing operation which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting operation in each of the rest of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said recording means is a portable recording medium.