Patent ID: 11960782
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. An image forming system having a cloud apparatus and a local apparatus for executing an image forming workflow for a document, and
the cloud apparatus comprising:
a cloud control unit configured to allocate each of tasks of the workflow to the cloud apparatus or the local apparatus, and
an update accumulation unit configured to accumulate update information of a file related to a task allocated to the local apparatus by the cloud control unit; and
the local apparatus comprising:
a client control unit configured to send and receive an execution result of the task allocated by the cloud apparatus and the update information to and from the cloud apparatus, and
a local storage unit that stores the file related to the task that is allocated to the local apparatus and is acquired by the client control unit.