Cooperative Processing Error Handling via Data Deletion
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Solution Overview
Problem
In cooperative processing systems involving multiple apparatuses, errors during joint processes can lead to data accumulation and memory occupation, posing security risks and processing loads, especially when image forming apparatuses communicate with external equipment over networks.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for detecting errors in cooperative processing systems, which include an error detection part to identify errors and a discard controller to delete data related to the cooperative process from affected apparatuses, ensuring data is removed from both the originating and connected apparatuses when an error occurs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data is retained in intermediate storage during cooperative processing, then processing continuity is maintained, but memory occupation increases and security risks arise when errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing error detection mechanisms and data deletion protocols before errors actually occur. The system proactively monitors processing status and prepares deletion routines in advance, so when an error is detected, the pre-prepared deletion mechanism immediately activates to remove intermediate data, preventing security risks and memory occupation issues before they can manifest
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by creating a closed-loop control system that continuously monitors cooperative processing status between apparatuses. When an error is detected in the processing chain, the feedback mechanism triggers automatic deletion of intermediate data from both the originating apparatus and the apparatus where data was temporarily stored, ensuring that harmful data accumulation is prevented through real-time monitoring and response
2Object-affected harmful factors
If error detection and data deletion mechanisms are implemented across multiple apparatuses, then security and memory management improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a multi-functional error handling mechanism that simultaneously performs detection, notification, and deletion operations across different apparatuses. The same control logic is reused in both the apparatus that generates intermediate data and the apparatus that stores it temporarily, allowing a single standardized protocol to handle security and memory management concerns across the entire cooperative processing system without requiring apparatus-specific complex implementations
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AI summary
A cooperative processing method for a cooperative processing system which has a plurality of processing apparatuses includes:detecting an error of a process of a cooperative process in an apparatus of the cooperative processing system; anddeleting data which relate to the cooperative process from the apparatus or other apparatus which relates to the cooperative process.