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

Claim 0:
1. A device management system, having a hardware processor executing computer instructions to manage an electronic apparatus to update a software of the electronic apparatus,
wherein the device management system is arranged to:
present, to the electronic apparatus, a plurality of modes to update the software of the electronic apparatus, the plurality of modes being different from each other in at least one of a length of a cycle in which update of the software is fully executed on all electronic apparatuses to be subjected to the update and a rate of the number of electronic apparatuses which are subjected to the update per unit time to the number of all the electronic apparatuses, and
generate a task to update the software of the electronic apparatus in accordance with a selected one of the plurality of modes, for each of all the electronic apparatuses and execute the task to the electronic apparatus so that the electronic apparatus updates the software thereof in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of modes,

wherein the task is generated such that the cycle is repeated, and
wherein the plurality of modes include a first mode, and a second mode in which a length of a first cycle is longer than a length of a cycle of the first mode and a length of each of second and subsequent cycles is the same as the length of the cycle of the first mode.