Patent ID: 6948072
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing device comprising: information receipt means to receive digital information from an external information storage medium; first judgment means to judge whether said external information storage medium is a medium which is readable and writable; second judgment means which judges whether a predetermined security processing is performed to the digital information to be received; control means to control said information receipt means to refuse a receipt of the digital information when said external information storage medium is judged by said first judgment means as readable and writable and by said second judgment means to determine that the security processing is not performed; and connector means for connecting a removable storage medium which is readable and writable, wherein as to digital information for which it is judged by said second judgment means that encoding processing is performed, said control means decodes the encoded information, and as to digital information which is read from said external information medium for which it is judged by said first judgment means that said external information medium is not readable and writable and for which it is judged by said second judgment means that encoding processing is not performed, said control means encodes the digital information and prompts the information processing device to write the encoded digital information on said removable medium via said connector means.