Image Forming Apparatus Dynamic Virus Quarantine Trigger
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming apparatuses, such as multifunction peripherals, perform virus scans ineffectively as they do not consider the dynamic changes in security settings or user operations, leading to unnecessary or delayed virus scans.
Innovation Solution
An image forming apparatus with a processor that implements virus quarantine based on dynamic security settings, including user-defined settings and automatic updates, ensuring timely and targeted virus scans according to the apparatus's state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If virus scanning is performed at designated times only, then the system operates with predictable timing, but virus detection may be delayed when security settings change
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors changes in security settings and automatically triggers virus scanning when such changes are detected. This feedback mechanism ensures that virus detection timing adapts dynamically to security configuration changes, resolving the contradiction between fixed scheduling and timely detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The virus scanning system transitions from static designated-time scheduling to dynamic event-driven scheduling. Scanning is triggered by security setting changes, making the system adaptive to real-time conditions and ensuring timely detection without relying on predetermined schedules.
2Reliability
If virus scanning is performed frequently, then virus detection capability is enhanced, but system performance and usability are hindered
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous or overly frequent scanning, the system employs periodic scanning triggered by specific events (security setting changes). This approach maintains strong virus detection capability while avoiding unnecessary scans that would degrade system performance and usability.
Solution Approach 2:
The scanning frequency and timing parameters are changed from fixed periodic intervals to event-based triggers. This parameter change optimizes the balance between detection capability and system performance by scanning only when security configurations change.
3Device complexity
If virus scanning is performed without considering security settings, then the scanning process is simple, but unnecessary scans are performed wasting resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary monitoring of security setting changes before triggering virus scans. This preliminary action prevents unnecessary scans by ensuring that scanning is only initiated when actually needed, thereby conserving system resources while maintaining simple scanning control logic.
Data Source
AI summary
An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit that performs setting of a system, an image formation section that forms an image according to the setting, and a processing unit that performs a process for a quarantine against a virus. The setting unit performs setting concerning security. The processing unit implements the quarantine against a virus if the setting concerning security has been changed.