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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2017
Junji Ukegawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Junji Ukegawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a device including an installer configured to install a program in the device, the program belonging to one or more classes of a plurality of classes of functions, and a determining unit configured to determine, for a specific class to which a specific program to be installed belongs, whether a number of programs available in the device reaches an upper limit number corresponding to the specific class in a storage unit configured to store, for each class, an upper limit number of programs to be available, wherein the installer is configured to vary a process related to installation of the specific program depending on a determination result by the determining unit.