Patent ID: 9274981
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a unit that requests, if one of a plurality of load conditions is satisfied by the image forming apparatus, a cluster of configuration data from a management apparatus which manages configuration data of the image forming apparatus, the one of the plurality of load conditions being satisfied if a trigger of a predetermined state transition is occurred on the image forming apparatus; a network communication device that receives from the management apparatus a cluster of configuration data of a plurality of clusters of configuration data managed by the management apparatus, the received cluster of configuration data being associated with the predetermined state transition of which trigger is occurred; and an overwrite unit that updates configuration data of the image forming apparatus with the cluster of configuration data received by the network communication device, wherein the overwrite unit overwrites a corresponding cluster of configuration data of a plurality of clusters of configuration data of the image forming apparatus by overwriting with the received cluster of the configuration data, the overwritten configuration data being used as configuration data of the image forming apparatus to execute the predetermined state transition of the image forming apparatus.