Image forming apparatus and method for controlling same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorManabu Fujii
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Abstract
Personal settings for each user and each application are stored in personal setting holding units 311 and 310. When a personal setting is to be exported, synchronous control information indicating whether or not synchronization is to be performed for each personal setting is exported. In the case where the firmware version of an apparatus that is to import the information indicates synchronization of the personal setting, the personal setting is rewritten in accordance with the synchronous control information.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an external apparatus, comprising:
- a storing unit configured to store a personal setting of each program in association with synchronous control information;
- a synchronization management unit configured to synchronize the personal setting stored in the storing unit and a corresponding personal setting held in the external apparatus, in accordance with the synchronous control information associated with the personal setting;
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- an export unit configured to export the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is exported to a distribution destination.
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an external apparatus, the method comprising:
- storing a personal setting of each program in a storing unit in association with synchronous control information;
- synchronizing the personal setting stored in the storing unit and a corresponding personal setting held in the external apparatus, in accordance with the synchronous control information associated with the personal setting;
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- exporting the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is exported to a distribution destination.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to function as an image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an external apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storing unit configured to store a personal setting of each program in association with synchronous control information;
- a synchronization management unit configured to synchronize the personal setting stored in the storing unit and a corresponding personal setting held in the external apparatus, in accordance with the synchronous control information associated with the personal setting;
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- an export unit configured to export the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is exported to a distribution destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.