Patent ID: 9092704
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus; and a server apparatus communicable with the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store prohibited combination information about two or more settings regarding the image forming apparatus, the two or more settings being prohibited from being set in combination with each other; a display control unit configured to display a user interface screen on a display unit, based on web page data that is received from a web server in the server apparatus, using a web browser that communicates with the web server; a reception unit configured to receive an input for changing settings, using the user interface screen; a first determination unit configured to determine, based on the prohibited combination information, whether or not the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in a plurality of current settings that include a content of change of settings received by the reception unit; and a storage information control unit configured to, in response to the first determination unit determining that the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in the plurality of current settings, store a statement that the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in the plurality of current settings in predetermined data in a predetermined storage area under control of the web browser, the server apparatus is configured to acquire the predetermined data and comprises a second determination unit configured to determine whether or not the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in the plurality of current settings, based on whether the statement is in the predetermined data transmitted from the web browser, and the display control unit configured to, if the server apparatus has acquired the predetermined data with the statement that the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in the plurality of current settings, update the user interface screen so as to display a warning about the statement that the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in the plurality of current settings.