Patent ID: 11934821
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A device management system, having a hardware processor executing computer instructions that manages an electronic apparatus to update a software of the electronic apparatus, the device management system comprising;
an automatic updater for automatically generating a task to update the software of the electronic apparatus, in accordance with an automatic update plan which includes a setting for automatically generating the task and executing the task to the electronic apparatus so that the electronic apparatus updates the software thereof in accordance with the setting included in the automatic update plan, wherein
the automatic update plan specifies the software for the update, and
the automatic updater automatically generates the task at a specific timing in a repeat manner in accordance with the automatic update plan,
wherein the automatic update plan specifies the electronic apparatus of a target of the update by specifying a group to which the electronic apparatus belongs,
the automatic updater automatically generates the task in accordance with the automatic update plan and an automatic update group setting for each group for automatically executing the update, and
the automatic update group setting specifies an automatic update plan used to automatically generate the task, and
wherein, in a case where automatic generation of the task in accordance with an automatic update plan independently selected is specified in the automatic update group setting, when the automatic update plan in which a group of a target of the automatic update group setting is specified is generated, the automatic updater notifies a specific address of the generation of the automatic update plan.