JPH1153175A - Data processor, data processing method of the same and storage medium in which program readable by computer is stored - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively performing an installation processing of different software resources required by every information processor from one data processor. SOLUTION: The data processor is constituted so that data processing resources information is obtained from respective information processors PC1 to PC3, discriminated by a CPU which is not shown on the drawing of a pre- installation master 1 to discriminate software to be installed, one corresponding software is read from a storage means based on a discrimination result and installation of the read software to the respective information processors PC1 to PC3 is executed by a software selection and installation means 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a data processing device, a data processing method of the data processing device, and a storage medium storing a computer-readable program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, information processing apparatuses such as personal computers and word processors (hereinafter referred to collectively as P
C), for example, a personal computer is shipped with software such as an operating system, device drivers, and applications installed before shipment (this is called software pre-installation). You can use it as soon as you buy a PC.

The software to be pre-installed is
It is necessary to change according to the system configuration of the PC. For example, the attached peripheral device may differ depending on the model of the PC.

For example, the PC-A has a sound function and an SCS.
It is assumed that the I-device is mounted, the PC-B is equipped with a sound function and a modem device, and the SCSI device is not mounted. In these PCs, in addition to software such as an operating system and applications common to both, sound and SCSI device drivers and software (applications) for using them are installed in the PC-A. It is necessary to install device drivers and applications for sound and modem in PC-B.

[0005] Also, application software to be installed may differ depending on the type of PC.

For example, in PC-A, only a word processor should be installed, and in PC-B, a word processor and a spreadsheet program should be installed.

As described above, a P having a plurality of system configurations
In the case of performing the pre-installation on the C group, conventionally, a software group to be pre-installed (hereinafter, referred to as a pre-install master) is individually prepared for each PC. Therefore, there are preinstalled masters as many as the number of PC models.

[0008]

Therefore, the following (1)
(3).

(1) Since a pre-install master must be created for each PC model, it takes time to create.

(2) In order to confirm that the pre-installation has been performed correctly, when actually installing
Since a different pre-installation master must be used for each model, there is a risk of using the wrong pre-installation master.

(3) Since a pre-installed master must be prepared for each PC model, it is necessary to store the pre-installed masters by the number of PC models.

Further, a large amount of storage space is required (for example, storing one pre-installed master on a magneto-optical disk increases the required media capacity and the number of media).

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to allocate software resources required in accordance with peripheral device resources or software resources provided in each information processing apparatus. By identifying and transferring the data processing resource information obtained from each data processing device,
Provided are a data processing apparatus capable of efficiently installing required software resources different for each information processing apparatus from one data processing apparatus, a data processing method of the data processing apparatus, and a storage medium storing a computer-readable program. It is in.

[0014]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium. A storage unit that stores a plurality of different pieces of software; a determination unit that obtains data processing resource information from each information processing apparatus and determines software to be installed; and a storage unit that stores the software based on a determination result of the determination unit. Control means for reading out any corresponding software and executing installation on each information processing apparatus.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the software includes software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the software is predetermined application software operable on each information processing apparatus.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in a data processing method of a data processing device capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing devices via a predetermined communication medium, data processing resource information is acquired from each information processing device. A determination step of determining software to be installed, and an installation step of reading out any software stored based on the determination result and executing installation on each information processing apparatus.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the installing step, software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus are installed.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage medium storing a computer-readable program capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium. A determination step of acquiring processing resource information to determine software to be installed, and an installation step of reading out any software stored based on the determination result and performing installation on each information processing apparatus. And a computer readable program stored in a storage medium.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the installing step, software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus are installed.

[0021]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a data processing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
.. Corresponds to a system that can communicate with PC3. The peripheral devices mounted on these information processing devices PC1 to PC3 include those common to all models, such as a floppy disk device and a hard disk device, and those different for each model. In the embodiment, the information processing device PC1 includes a sound device 13 and a SCSI device 14 as peripheral devices that are different for each model.
2 is equipped with a sound device 13 and a modem device 15, and the information processing device PC3 is equipped with a modem device 15.

Further, each of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3
Has its own system configuration information stored in the ROM 11, and there is a system configuration information notifying unit 12 that reads out its own system configuration information from the ROM 11 in response to an inquiry from another person and notifies the content thereof.

The preinstall master 1 has common software (operating system, software for peripheral devices commonly installed in all models) independent of the models of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3. 4 and software corresponding to all of the peripheral devices different for each model, that is, sound software 7, SCSI software 6, and modem software 5.

These software programs are independent of each other and can be installed independently. The pre-install master 1 includes information processing devices PC1 to PC
A system configuration information inquiry unit 2 for inquiring the system configuration to C3; and a software selection installation unit 3 for installing a corresponding one of the software groups included in the pre-install master 1 based on the notified system configuration information. Exists.

The preinstall master 1 stores software required when the end user first turns on the power supply, into a large-capacity auxiliary storage device (hereinafter simply referred to as a hard disk) such as a hard disk mounted on these information processing devices PC1 to PC3. ) Automatically installed and shipped.

The software necessary for the operation of each PC model includes common software 4 that does not depend on the models of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3, and software corresponding to different peripheral devices for each model. For example, the information processing device PC1
Then, common software 4 and sound software 7,
In the information processing device PC3, the common software 4 and the modem software 5 are used.

In the data processing device configured as described above, that is, in the data processing device (preinstall master 1) capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing devices PC1 to PC3 via a predetermined communication medium, Storage means (hard disk not shown or external storage not shown) for storing a plurality of different types of software to be installed in the devices PC1 to PC3, and data processing resource information obtained from each of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3 and installed Determining means for determining software to be executed (the CPU (not shown) of the preinstall master 1
The control program stored in the OM or another memory resource is executed and determined according to the procedure shown in FIG.
Control means (software selection and installation means 3) for reading any corresponding software from the storage means based on the result of the determination by the determination means and performing installation on each of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3; Therefore, it is possible to efficiently install different software resources required for each of the information processing apparatuses PC1 to PC3 from one data processing apparatus.

The software includes software (common software 4) common to the information processing devices PC1 to PC3 and peripheral device resources (sound device 13, SCSI device 14, modem) of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3. Software specific to the device 15) (sound software 7, SCSI software 6, modem software 5)
And software common to the peripheral device resources of the information processing apparatuses PC1 to PC3 and the information processing apparatuses PC1 to PC3.
To the information processing apparatus PC1 from one pre-install master 1
(1) Software resources in different combinations required for each data processing model of PC3 can be installed without error.

Further, the software includes predetermined application software (word processing software, spreadsheet software, FEP, communication tool (communication software, file management tool software, CD) which can be operated by each of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3. -ROM driver software, power management tool software, etc.), so that the software resources required for the application software of each information processing apparatus can be installed without error.

Hereinafter, the data processing (software resource installation processing) of the data processing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a data processing procedure of the data processing system according to the present invention.
In addition, (1) to (8) indicate each step, and correspond to processing in which software necessary for the operation of the information processing apparatuses PC1 to PC3 of each model is installed from one preinstall master 1.

The preinstall master 1 first installs common software independent of the type of the information processing apparatus PC (1). Next, the system configuration information inquiry means 2 inquires of each of the information processing apparatuses PC1 to PC3 about the system configuration information (2).

Each of the information processing devices PC1 to PC3 is controlled by the system
And reads its own system configuration information from the pre-install master 1. The preinstall master 1 installs software according to the notified system configuration information.

Here, it is determined whether or not the sound device 13 is mounted on the basis of the notified system configuration information (3). If YES, the sound software 7 is installed on a hard disk or the like (not shown) (4), and step ( 5) Proceed to the subsequent steps.

On the other hand, in step (3), the sound device 1
If it is determined that the SCSI device 14 is not mounted, it is determined whether or not the SCSI device 14 is mounted (5).
If S, the SCSI software 6 is installed on a hard disk or the like (not shown) (6), and the process proceeds to step (5) and subsequent steps.

On the other hand, in step (5), the SCSI device 1
If it is determined that the modem device 15 is not mounted, it is determined whether or not the modem device 15 is mounted (7).
If O, the process is terminated, and if it is determined that the modem device 15 is installed, the modem software 5 is installed (8).

Thus, the information processing apparatus P of each model
All the software necessary for the operation of C1 to PC3 is installed from one preinstall master 1.

The software to be installed is
The present invention is not limited to the above, and it is possible to cope with installation of various software to be developed in the future (including application software for executing predetermined data processing) or driver software for controlling hardware resources.

Hereinafter, a characteristic configuration of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

In a data processing method of a data processing device capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium configured as described above, or communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium A storage medium storing a computer-readable program capable of reading data processing resource information from each information processing apparatus and determining software to be installed (steps (3) and (3) in FIG. 2) 5), (7)) and an installation step of reading out any software stored based on the determination result and performing installation on each information processing apparatus (steps (4) and (4) in FIG. 2).
(6), (8)), it is possible to efficiently install different software resources required for each information processing apparatus from one data processing apparatus.

In addition, the installation step installs software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to the peripheral apparatus resources of each information processing apparatus, so that the installation step is common to the peripheral apparatus resources of each information processing apparatus. The software and software unique to the peripheral device resources of each information processing apparatus can be installed from one data processing apparatus without any error in software resources that are different combinations required for each data processing model of each information processing apparatus.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a data processing program readable by the printing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to a memory map shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining a memory map of a storage medium for storing various data processing programs which can be read by the printing system according to the present invention.

Although not shown, information for managing a group of programs stored in the storage medium, such as version information and a creator, is also stored, and information dependent on the OS or the like on the program reading side, such as a program, An icon or the like for identification display may also be stored.

Further, data dependent on various programs is also managed in the directory. In addition, a program for installing various programs on a computer or a program for decompressing a program to be installed when the program to be installed is compressed may be stored.

The functions shown in FIG. 2 in this embodiment may be executed by a host computer by a program installed from the outside. In this case, the present invention is applied even when a group of information including a program is supplied to the output device from a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, a flash memory, or an FD, or from an external storage medium via a network. Things.

As described above, the storage medium storing the program codes of the software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to the system or the apparatus, and the computer (or CPU or MP) of the system or the apparatus is supplied.
It goes without saying that the object of the present invention is also achieved when U) reads out and executes the program code stored in the storage medium.

In this case, the program code read from the storage medium itself realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, C
DR, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, RO
M, EEPROM and the like can be used.

When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also the OS (Operating System) running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. ) And the like perform part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, The CPU provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing,
It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by the processing is also included. That is, a program code corresponding to the process shown in FIG. 2 is stored in an external storage medium or an internal storage resource to be described later, and the ROM of the preinstall master 1 storing the program code is stored.
Alternatively, an embodiment in which the CPU reads out from a storage medium (not shown) and executes the readout is also included in the embodiment of the present invention.

[0052]

As described above, the first embodiment according to the present invention is described.
According to the invention, in a data processing device capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing devices via a predetermined communication medium, storage means for storing a plurality of different types of software to be installed in each information processing device; Determining means for obtaining data processing resource information from the information processing apparatus and determining software to be installed; and reading one of the corresponding software from the storage means based on the determination result of the determining means, and reading the respective information. Since there is a control unit for performing installation on the processing device, it is possible to efficiently install different necessary software resources for each information processing device from one data processing device.

According to the second aspect, the software includes software common to the information processing devices and software unique to the peripheral device resources of the information processing devices. The software common to the device resources and the software specific to the peripheral device resources of each information processing device are incorrectly combined from one data processing device to a different combination of software resources required for each data processing model of each information processing device. Installation process

According to the third aspect, the software is predetermined application software operable on each information processing apparatus. Therefore, software resources required for application software of each information processing apparatus can be installed without error. Can be processed.

According to the fourth to seventh aspects, it is possible to efficiently install different software resources required for each information processing apparatus from one data processing apparatus,
The software common to the peripheral device resources of each information processing device and the software specific to the peripheral device resources of each information processing device are combined from one data processing device to a different combination required for each data processing model of each information processing device. It is possible to obtain the effect that the installation processing can be performed without error for the software resources.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a data processing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a data processing procedure of the data processing system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a memory map of a storage medium that stores various data processing programs that can be read by the printing system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 Pre-install master 2 System configuration information inquiry means 3 Software selection installation means 4 Common software 5 Modem software 6 SCSI software 7 Sound software 11 ROM 12 System configuration information notification means 13 Sound device 14 SCSI device 15 Modem device

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A data processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium, comprising: storage means for storing a plurality of software of different types to be installed in each information processing apparatus; Determining means for acquiring data processing resource information from a processing device and determining software to be installed; and reading out any corresponding software from the storage means based on the determination result of the determining means, and performing respective information processing. Control means for performing installation on the device;
A data processing device comprising: 2. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the software includes software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus. 3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said software is predetermined application software operable on each information processing apparatus. 4. A data processing method for a data processing device capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing devices via a predetermined communication medium, wherein data processing resource information is acquired from each information processing device to determine software to be installed. Data processing of a data processing apparatus, comprising: a determination step of performing reading; and an installation step of reading out any software stored based on the determination result and executing installation on each information processing apparatus. Method. 5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein in the installing step, software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus are installed. Data processing method. 6. A storage medium storing a program readable by a computer capable of communicating with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a predetermined communication medium, acquiring data processing resource information from each information processing apparatus and installing the program. A computer-readable program including: a determination step of determining software to be performed; and an installation step of reading any software stored based on the determination result and performing installation on each information processing apparatus. A storage medium storing a program. 7. The computer according to claim 6, wherein in the installing step, software common to each information processing apparatus and software unique to a peripheral device resource of each information processing apparatus are installed. A storage medium that stores possible programs.