Information processing apparatus and information processing system

• US 9,063,810 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Ikawa, Taku, Sugiura, Yuuko, Hirokawa, Tomoya, Han, Xiaofeng
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRANCO, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US13/816,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20130139142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,415 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/12 Digital output to print unit , e.g. line printer, chain printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores combination information relevant to combinations of different types of first programs that can be installed in a device, the combination information including memory consumption amounts of the combinations; a receiving unit that receives an install target first program and device information relevant to the device; and a determining unit that determines validity of installing the install target first program in the device by determining, by referring to the combination information, a predicted memory consumption amount corresponding to a first combination including the install target first program and an existing first program that is installed in the device and indicated in the device information, and by comparing the predicted memory consumption amount with a device memory consumption amount of the device indicated in the device information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a coexistence condition storage memory unit configured to store combination information for each combination of first programs that can be installed in a device, the combination information including memory consumption information indicating an amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing the combination of the first programs;

an install information receiving unit configured to receive an install target first program selected as an install target and device information relevant to the device selected as an install destination of the install target first program; and

a validity determining unit configured to determine, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, a predicted amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing a first combination of the install target first program and an existing first program that is already installed in the device and indicated in the device information, and determine validity of installing the install target first program by comparing the predicted amount of memory with an amount of available memory of the device selected as the install destination indicated in the device information,

wherein the device information includes a version of the existing first program that is already installed in the device.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes versions of the combination of the first programs, and

the validity determining unit determines whether the version of the existing first program included in the device information corresponds to one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination, and when the version of the existing first program does not correspond to any one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination, the validity determining unit generates update report information for reporting that the existing first program needs to be updated.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes a list of second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs,

the device information includes a list of existing second programs that are already installed in the device, and

the validity determining unit determines, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, a target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination, and when the target second program is not included in the list of existing second programs in the device information, the validity determining unit generates install report information for reporting that the target second program needs to be installed in the device.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit includes, in addition to the list of the second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs, versions of the second programs, and

the validity determining unit determines, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, the target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination as well as a target version of the target second program, and when the target second program corresponding to the target version is not included in the list of existing second programs in the device information, the validity determining unit generates the install report information for reporting that the target second program corresponding to the target version needs to be installed in the device.

5. An information processing system, comprising:

an information processing apparatus; and

a device, wherein

the information processing apparatus includes

a coexistence condition storage memory unit configured to store combination information for each combination of first programs that can be installed in the device, the combination information including memory consumption information indicating an amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing the combination of the first programs;

an install information receiving unit configured to receive an install target first program selected as an install target and device information relevant to the device selected as an install destination of the install target first program, the device information being acquired from the device selected as the install destination; and

a validity determining unit configured to determine, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, a predicted amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing a first combination of the install target first program and an existing first program that is already installed in the device and indicated in the device information, and determine validity of installing the install target first program by comparing the predicted amount of memory with an amount of available memory of the device selected as the install destination indicated in the device information,

wherein the device information includes a version of the existing first program that is already installed in the device.

6. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes versions of the combination of the first programs, and

the validity determining unit determines whether the version of the existing first program included in the device information corresponds to one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination, and when the version of the existing first program does not correspond to any one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination, the validity determining unit generates update report information for reporting that the existing first program needs to be updated.

7. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes a list of second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs,

the device information includes a list of existing second programs that are already installed in the device, and

the validity determining unit determines, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, a target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination, and when the target second program is not included in the list of existing second programs in the device information, the validity determining unit generates install report information for reporting that the target second program needs to be installed in the device.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit includes, in addition to the list of the second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs, versions of the second programs, and

the validity determining unit determines, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, the target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination as well as a target version of the target second program, and when the target second program corresponding to the target version is not included in the list of existing second programs in the device information, the validity determining unit generates the install report information for reporting that the target second program corresponding to the target version needs to be installed in the device.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored therein, wherein the program instructs a processor of a computer to execute a method comprising:

receiving an install target first program selected as an install target and device information relevant to a device selected as an install destination of the install target first program;

determining, by referring to a coexistence condition storage memory unit, a predicted amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing a first combination of the install target first program and an existing first program that is already installed in the device and indicated in the device information, the coexistence condition storage memory unit storing combination information for each combination of first programs that can be installed in the device, and the combination information including memory consumption information indicating an amount of memory that is consumed by simultaneously executing the combination of the first programs; and

determining validity of installing the install target program by comparing the predicted amount of memory with an amount of available memory of the device selected as the install destination indicated in the device information,

wherein the device information includes a version of the existing first program that is already installed in the device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein,

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes versions of the combinations of the first programs, and

the method further comprises:

determining whether the version of the existing first program included in the device information corresponds to one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination, and

generating update report information for reporting that the existing first program needs to be updated when the version of the existing first program is determined as not corresponding to any one of the versions included in the combination information corresponding to the first combination.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein

the device information includes a list of existing second programs that are already installed in the device,

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit also includes a list of second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs, and

the method further comprises:

determining, by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, a target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination, and

generating install report information for reporting that the target second program needs to be installed in the device when the target second program is determined as not being included in the list of existing second programs in the device information.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein

the combination information stored in the coexistence condition storage memory unit includes, in addition to the list of the second programs that are used by the combination of the first programs, versions of the second programs,

in the determining the target second program that is to be used by the install target first program included in the first combination, a target version of the target second program is also determined by referring to the coexistence condition storage memory unit, and

the install report information for reporting that the target second program corresponding to the target version needs to be installed in the device is generated when the target second program corresponding to the target version is determined as not being included in the list of existing second programs in the device information.