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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shota Shimizu, Moriya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A state of following a policy is maintained without troubling a person in the case where an operation setting relating to the policy is added by the update of software for an apparatus that is managed systematically under the policy. In the embodiment, the aspect is described in which the two kinds of generation information (currently being applied and at the time of policy setting) about software are saved and whether the policy adaptation processing is necessary is determined in accordance with the difference therebetween.