Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kei Nakabayashi

Takashi Nakamura

Osamu Kizaki

Hiroki Uchibori

Sachiko Takeuchi

Kenji Yamada

In an image forming apparatus, setting information is stored in a storage part for a function which the image forming apparatus operates based on the setting information. An acquisition request of common setting information is sent to an information processing apparatus including the common setting information in common with multiple of the image forming apparatuses connected through a network. The common setting information is received from the information processing apparatus. The common setting information received by the receiving part is set in the setting information stored in the storage part.

Image forming apparatus, information setting system, and information setting method for controlling setting values by requesting setting information through a network

An information apparatus includes an apparatus information obtaining unit that obtains apparatus information from a plurality of apparatuses connected via a network to the information apparatus, an apparatus selection unit that selects a target apparatus from the plurality of apparatuses based on the obtained apparatus information, and a process result obtaining unit that sends a request to the target apparatus to request the target apparatus to perform a process corresponding to the request, and obtains a result of the performed process from the target apparatus.

Information apparatus and information processing system

An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores setting information for operating the image processing apparatus; and an updating control unit that sends a request for obtaining predetermined differentiated setting information, which is a part of a set of setting information stored in a data processing apparatus in a differentiated manner in accordance with a predetermined differentiating criterion, to the data processing apparatus via a network, obtains the predetermined differentiated setting information from the data processing apparatus via the network and controls to update the setting information stored in the storing unit by the obtained predetermined differentiated setting information.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kei Nakabayashi