Information processing device for determining whether updating the firmware of an MFP is necessary
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorihiko Asai
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Abstract
A non-transitory computer-readable medium has control instructions to control a computer of an information processing device including a communication interface used to perform communications with an image processing apparatus, and the control instructions cause the computer to perform: determining whether updating of firmware of the image processing apparatus is necessary to execute specific processing in the image processing apparatus; and outputting information based on a result of the determining.
Claims9
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a control application having control instructions to control a computer of an information processing device including a communication interface used to perform communications with a printing apparatus, the computer having a plug-in for the control application, which is different from the control instructions,
- the plug-in supporting a specific image printing, the plug-in being configured to generate specific image data which is corresponding to the specific image printing by a specific printing apparatus and which is to be transmitted to the specific printing apparatus by the control application, and the plug-in outputting information indicative of the specific printing apparatus,
- the control instructions causing the computer to perform:
- receiving the information indicative of the specific printing apparatus from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing;
- determining, based on information received from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing, in a case where it is determined based on the information received from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing that a target printing apparatus is the specific printing apparatus, whether updating of firmware of the target printing apparatus is necessary to execute the specific image printing in the target printing apparatus;
- and
- outputting information based on a result of the determining.
An information processing device comprising:
- a communication interface used to perform communications with a printing apparatus, and
- a controller,
- wherein the controller executes a control application and a plug-in for the control application, the plug-in supporting a specific image printing, the control application having control instructions, when the control application and the plug-in are executed, the controller is configured to perform:
- generating, by the plug-in, specific image data which is corresponding to the specific image printing by a specific printing apparatus and which is to be transmitted to the specific printing apparatus by the control application and outputting, by the plug-in information indicative of the specific printing apparatus;
- receiving the information indicative of the specific printing apparatus from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing;
- determining, based on the information received from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing, by the control application, in a case where it is determined based on the information received from the plug-in supporting the specific image printing that a target printing apparatus is the specific printing apparatus, whether updating of firmware of the target printing apparatus is necessary to execute specific image printing in the target printing apparatus;
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- outputting, by the control application, information based on a result of the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.