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US 9,319,538 B2Granted
Management apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshio Fukuda
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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshio Fukuda
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A first image forming apparatus detects a malfunction generated in a functional unit thereof and determines a functional mode that cannot be executed. The first image forming apparatus transmits the functional mode that cannot be executed to a management apparatus. When obtaining the functional mode that cannot be executed, the management apparatus updates a functional mode table. The management apparatus increases a priority of the first image forming apparatus for a functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. Along with this, the management apparatus decreases a priority of a second image forming apparatus that normally operates for the functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. When receiving a job, the management apparatus refers to the updated functional mode table to allocate the job to one of the image forming apparatuses.
A management apparatus connected to a plurality of image processing apparatuses that execute jobs corresponding to a plurality of functional modes relating to image processing and accepting a request for execution of the jobs from an information processing apparatus, the management apparatus comprising:
An image processing apparatus that executes jobs corresponding to a plurality of functional modes relating to image processing, to which a job corresponding to a normal-state functional mode that can be executed by using a functional unit free from a malfunction during a malfunction generated in the image processing apparatus is preferentially allocated by a management apparatus, the image processing apparatus having an error-state function mode which cannot be executed by a functional unit which generates a malfunction, the image processing apparatus comprising:
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