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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2007
Ryoji Bando, Sakai, JP;
Takatoshi Mochizuki, Kobe, JP;
Ryoji Bando, Sakai, JP;
Takatoshi Mochizuki, Kobe, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multi-functional peripheral (MFP) can communicate with a server storing plural kinds of update programs together with update information including updated states of plural kinds of functions, and includes a flash memory to store an execution program, a function execution portion to execute the execution program and execute at least one of the functions, a performance storage portion, when any of the functions is executed, to store performance information regarding execution of the function in the flash memory, a determination portion to determine, based on the performance information and the update information stored in the server, an update target portion to be updated within the execution program and a target program for use in updating the execution program from among the update programs stored in the server, and an updating portion to update the update target portion of the execution program with the determined target program.