Information processing apparatus, information processing system, message control method, and program product, storage medium

• US 9,037,744 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishibashi, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Zele, Krista
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESAI, MARGISHI V
• Application Number:
  US11/477,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,245 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/217, 709/232, 713/172, 710/48
• US Class Current: 709/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/177 Initialisation or configuration control processor initialisation G06F9/4405
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/545 where tasks reside in different layers, e.g. user- and kernel-space

Abstract

An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, which are capable of controlling an operating system message. The operating system message, generated by an operating system, is obtained. When a destination application, which has requested or may request for the operating system message is found, the operating system is converted to an application message readable to or executable by the destination application. The application message may be sent to the destination application.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a processor configured to execute a plurality of applications under control of an operating system, wherein the operating system is configured to communicate with the plurality of applications; and

a storage device configured to store a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, perform a plurality of functions including;

monitoring a plurality of operating system messages generated by the operating system for the plurality of applications;

storing, in a storage, an entry table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, an operation system process identifier for identifying an operating system process of the operating system that generates the operating system message, and a destination application identifier for identifying a destination application of the plurality of applications that has requested the operating system process to generate the operating system message;

storing a conversion table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, the operating system process identifier, an operating system message status, and an application message including executable code executable by an application, in association with one another;

searching through the storage using a specific operating system process identifier obtained by the monitoring to obtain a destination application identifier associated with the specific operating system process identifier;

searching through the conversion table to obtain an application message associated with the specific operating system process identifier, wherein the obtained application message includes the executable code, which causes the destination application to perform a process; and

causing the obtained application message, instead of the operating system message, to be sent to the destination application.

2. The information processing system of claim 1, wherein the destination application identifier identifies a specific process of the destination application that is waiting for the operating system message to be sent from the operating system process.

3. A message control method performed by a processor, the method comprising:

monitoring a plurality of operating system messages generated by the operating system for the plurality of applications;

storing, in a storage, an entry table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, an operation system process identifier for identifying an operating system process of the operating system that generates the operating system message, and a destination application identifier for identifying a destination application of the plurality of applications that has requested the operating system process to generate the operating system message;

storing a conversion table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, the operating system process identifier, an operating system message status, and an application message including executable code executable by an application, in association with one another;

searching through the storage using a specific operating system process identifier obtained by the monitoring to obtain a destination application identifier associated with the specific operating system process identifier;

searching through the conversion table to obtain an application message associated with the specific operating system process identifier, wherein the obtained application message includes the executable code, which causes the destination application to perform a process; and

causing the obtained application message, instead of the operating system message, to be sent to the destination application.

4. The message control method of claim 3, wherein the destination application identifier identifies a specific process of the destination application that is waiting for the operating system message to be sent from the operating system process.

5. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a computer program which, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform a message control method comprising:

monitoring a plurality of operating system messages generated by the operating system for the plurality of applications;

storing, in a storage, an entry table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, an operation system process identifier for identifying an operating system process of the operating system that generates the operating system message, and a destination application identifier for identifying a destination application of the plurality of applications that has requested the operating system process to generate the operating system message;

storing a conversion table that stores, for each of the plurality of operating system messages, the operating system process identifier, an operating system message status, and an application message including executable code executable by an application, in association with one another;

searching through the storage using a specific operating system process identifier obtained by the monitoring to obtain a destination application identifier associated with the specific operating system process identifier;

searching through the conversion table to obtain an application message associated with the specific operating system process identifier, wherein the obtained application message includes the executable code, which causes the destination application to perform a process; and

causing the obtained application message, instead of the operating system message, to be sent to the destination application.

6. The recording medium of claim 5, wherein the destination application identifier identifies a specific process of the destination application that is waiting for the operating system message to be sent from the operating system process.