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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Hamakawa, Osaka, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A server apparatus determines a configuration of a second processor via the network interface, the second processor being a processor of the client apparatus, determines an environment capable of executing the update program, selects a virtual machine source for generating a virtual machine that virtually realizes the determined environment out of the plurality of different virtual machine sources that the memory stores, generates a virtual machine that virtually realizes the environment by the second processor, by using the selected virtual machine source, generates a package including the generated virtual machine, the firmware, and the update program, and sends the package and a control command for installing the package in the client apparatus to the client apparatus via the network interface to cause the client apparatus to execute the update program by the virtual machine to update the firmware in the external device.