Patent ID: 8438561
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An installation method executed by a mediation apparatus connected, via a network, to an image forming apparatus, a management apparatus that manages installation of software in the image forming apparatus, a license server that issues a license key of the software, and a software sever that distributes the software, the installation method comprising: receiving, by a receiving unit, an installation request including an validation date and time when a license of the software is validated from the management apparatus to store the installation request in an installation information storage unit; acquiring, by a license key acquiring unit, the license key by requesting temporary issue thereof from the license server prior to the validation date and time to store the license key in a license key storage unit; acquiring, by a software acquiring unit, the software by requesting distribution thereof from the software server prior to the validation date and time to store the software in a software storage unit; determining, by a license key acquisition determining unit, whether the license key is acquirable from the license server at the time when the validation date and time has passed; and installing, by an installing unit, the software in the image forming apparatus by using the license key stored in the license key storage unit and the software stored in the software storage unit when it is determined that the license key is not acquirable, wherein the acquiring, by the license key acquiring unit, includes acquiring the license key by requesting formal issue thereof from the license server when the license key acquisition determining unit determines that the license key is acquirable, and the installing, by the installing unit, includes installing the software in the image forming apparatus by using the license key thus acquired and the software stored in the software storage unit.