INFORMATION PROCESSOR, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure appropriate security while sufficiently obtaining the effect of high-speed processing by utilizing a grid computing technique in the case of applying the load distribution system of grid computing to an information processor such as a printer or a composite function printer connected to a computer network.

SOLUTION: At the time of receiving a job (S101), a task manager (TM) requests the object equipment of distributed processing which is included in the job and corresponds to a security level indicating the importance of data included in the job to a dynamic job scheduler (DJS) (S102). The DJS notifies the TM of the object equipment (S112) and the TM transmits a division job to the object equipment (S104). Thus, the problem that there is the risk that information is eavesdropped on the equipment or the network for performing the distributed processing of the job though a printing job often includes secret information is solved.

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