Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiro Mutsuno
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus, upon a restart, does not activate, if an accepted restart instruction is not an instruction by a remote control accepted from an information processing apparatus, an application for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus from the information processing apparatus, and, upon a restart, does activate, if the restart instruction is an instruction by the remote control, the application.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive a restart instruction of the image forming apparatus;
- a memory device configured to store information relating to a remote control by an external apparatus in a case where the restart instruction is received from the external apparatus, and not to store the information in a case where the restart instruction is received from an operation unit provided in the image forming apparatus;
- a restart device configured to restart the image forming apparatus in accordance with the restart instruction;
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- a controller configured to control so as to not activate a remote application for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus from the external apparatus in a case where the information is not stored in the memory device, and so as to activate the remote application in a case where the information is stored in the memory device.
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, the method comprising steps of:
- receiving a restart instruction of the image forming apparatus;
- storing, in a memory device, information relating to a remote control by an external apparatus in a case where the restart instruction is received from the external apparatus;
- not storing, in the memory device, the information in a case where the restart instruction is received from an operation unit provided in the image forming apparatus;
- restarting the image forming apparatus in accordance with the restart instruction;
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- controlling so as to not activate a remote application for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus from the external apparatus in a case where the information is not stored in the memory device, and so as to activate the remote application in a case where the information is stored in the memory device.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that when executed causes a computer to perform a control method of an image forming apparatus, the control method comprising steps of:
- receiving a restart instruction of the image forming apparatus;
- storing, in a memory device, information relating to a remote control by an external apparatus in a case where the restart instruction is received from the external apparatus;
- not storing, in the memory device, the information in a case where the restart instruction is received from an operation unit provided in the image forming apparatus;
- restarting the image forming apparatus in accordance with the restart instruction;
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- controlling so as to not activate a remote application for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus from the external apparatus in a case where the information is not stored in the memory device, and so as to activate the remote application in a case where the information is stored in the memory device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.