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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Genki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Genki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus executes one or more pieces of firmware. The information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor configured to refer to update procedure information in which a precondition and an environmental condition are set, the precondition being required for updating the firmware and being set for each piece of the firmware in an updating order of updating the respective pieces of firmware, the environmental condition defining a process for preparing an environment for an updated piece of the firmware; determine whether the precondition is satisfied in the updating order, and update the firmware that is an update target, upon determining that the precondition is satisfied; and execute the process according to the environmental condition, after updating the one or more pieces of the firmware.