Patent ID: 7600231
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A control method of an application program in an information processing apparatus that operates an operating system, and operates a plurality of application programs including first and second application programs on the operating system in parallel, comprising: running the first application program in a first memory space; running the second application program in a second memory space, which is different from the first memory space; recording a set of application programs in which copying data between the application programs is prohibited; running a monitoring program, which runs along with the first application program in the first memory space; detecting a function call to record the data to a shared memory space; accessing a memory space that is capable of being accessed by either of the first and second application programs from the first application program to the operating system; indicating by a digital watermark that the data is copied from the first application program; running a judgment program on the information processing apparatus to determine that the function call reads data from the shared memory space; inhibiting data from being copied such that the data recorded in the shared memory space does not include the digital watermark; and running a control program on the information processing apparatus to inhibit and modify the function call; detecting a function to read data from the shared memory space, from the second application program to the operating system such that copying data is inhibited; recording identification information for identifying the first application program into the shared memory space, which is a memory space accessible by both the monitoring program and the control program, in response to the detection of a call of the function to record data into the shared memory space by the first application program; and judging that copying the data is inhibited such that a set of the application programs to be identified by the identification information acquired from the control memory space and the second application program is matched with a set of the application programs recorded in a recording section.