Patent ID: 9740475
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a network interface unit which is configured to be connected to a host device in which a manager program is stored; a printing unit which performs a printing job; a storage unit which stores information on the image forming apparatus and an agent program which provides information to the manager program; and a control unit which communicates with the host device using a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), wherein if an application, which includes information corresponding to a management object (MO), is newly installed, the control unit updates information on an object identifier ( wherein if a request for information designating an OID included in the updated information is input from the host device, the control unit transmits information corresponding to the designated OID to the host device by executing an application corresponding to the designated OID using the agent program.