Service providing system with synchronization of attribute data

Abstract

A service providing system includes a first apparatus that stores first attribute data including status information on the first apparatus and setting information on a function of the first apparatus, updates the first attribute data to contents specified by a modification instruction if the modification instruction of the first attribute data is received from a user, and establishes synchronization via a first connection such that, in a second apparatus storing second attribute data corresponding to the first attribute data, contents of the second attribute data become identical to contents of the updated first attribute data; and the second apparatus that, if a modification instruction of the second attribute data is received from a user, updates the second attribute data to contents specified by the modification instruction of the second attribute data, and establishes synchronization via the first connection such that, in the first apparatus, contents of the first attribute data become identical to contents of the updated second attribute data, wherein if the contents of the first attribute data updated in response to the modification instruction received by the first apparatus are different, before the synchronization, from the contents of the second attribute data updated in response to the modification instruction received by the second apparatus, attribute data to be prioritized is identified by referring to priority information defining which attribute data, the first attribute data or the second attribute data, is to be prioritized, and the first apparatus and the second apparatus establish the synchronization via the first connection such that the first attribute data and the second attribute data are updated to contents of the attribute data to be prioritized.

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