Patent ID: 11875142
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
acquiring first update data used to update a program and including first version information of the program, from another apparatus connected via a network, the program causing the information processing apparatus to execute a process,
acquiring second update data used to update the program and including second version information of the program from the another apparatus after receiving an instruction to stop operation of the information processing apparatus before stopping the operation of the information processing apparatus, the second version information being a latest version of the program available from the another apparatus,
detect a user's operation of turning a main power of the information processing apparatus off,
determining, in response to detecting the user's operation of turning the main power of the information processing apparatus off, whether the first version information is the same as the second version information, the second version information being a latest version of the program available from the another apparatus whether the first version information is the same as the second version information, and
updating the program based on the first update data in a case where the first version information is the same as the second version information.