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Patent No.:

US 10019212 B1

Date of Patent:

Jul. 10, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2015

Printing apparatus that decompresses and updates software installed therein, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Koji Niwa, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Rossi, Kimms, McDowell LLP

Primary Examiner:

Andrew H Lam

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 3/1284 (2013.01); G06F 3/123 (2013.01); G06F 3/1217 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 8/665 (2013.01); G06F 3/126 (2013.01);

Abstract

A printing apparatus that is capable of reducing downtime caused by software update. A printing apparatus downloads update software for updating software installed therein, and updates the installed software using the downloaded update software. The update software is downloaded by background processing. It is determined whether or not predetermined processing is being performed when the update software is decompressed. When it is determined that the predetermined processing is not being performed, the downloaded update software is decompressed by background processing, and the installed software is updated using the decompressed update software.

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