Patent ID: 9449193
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured to store identification information; and a processor configured to control an application which executes authentication processing for authenticating validation of the identification information stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, wherein the processor executes the application to read the identification information from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and to execute the authentication processing for determining whether or not the identification information is authentic, when the identification information is authentic, the processor continues at least some read and write functions of the application, and when the identification information is inauthentic, the processor ends some read and write functions of the application, wherein the nonvolatile semiconductor memory and the application include a plurality of slots, each of the slots has a function and an identification information corresponding to a use mode of the application, and wherein the processor further executes the authentication processing for determining whether or not the identification information of a slot is authentic.