Image forming apparatus with personal setting synchronization 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.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an external apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory,
- wherein said at least one processor, when executing instructions stored in the at least one memory, is configured to function as:
- 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, the synchronous control information indicating whether or not the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized with the personal setting held in and to be imported from the external apparatus, and
- an import unit configured to import the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is imported from another information processing apparatus,
- wherein if the synchronous control information imported from the other information processing apparatus indicates that the personal setting is not synchronized and the synchronous control information has not been specified by an application, the import unit rewrites the synchronous control information so as to indicate that the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized.
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, the synchronous control information indicating whether or not the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized with the personal setting held in and to be imported from the external apparatus;
- and
- importing the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is imported from another information processing apparatus,
- wherein if the synchronous control information imported from the other information processing apparatus indicates that the personal setting is not synchronized and the synchronous control information has not been specified by an application, the synchronous control information is rewritten so as to indicate that the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to function as an image forming apparatus which is configured to be connected to an external apparatus and which comprises at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one processor, when executing instructions stored in the at least one memory, being configured to function as:
- 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, the synchronous control information indicating whether or not the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized with the personal setting held in and to be imported from the external apparatus, and
- an import unit configured to import the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is imported from another information processing apparatus,
- wherein if the synchronous control information imported from the other information processing apparatus indicates that the personal setting is not synchronized and the synchronous control information has not been specified by an application, the import unit rewrites the synchronous control information so as to indicate that the personal setting associated with the synchronous control information is synchronized.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.