Patent ID: 8194273
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A program transmission system in which a program is transmitted from a transmission apparatus to an image forming apparatus, the program transmission system comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire operational state information about an operational state in the image forming apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine timing to transmit the program to the image forming apparatus according to the operational state based on the operational state information acquired by the acquisition unit; a transmission unit configured to transmit the program from the transmission apparatus to the image forming apparatus according to the timing determined by the determination unit; and a storage unit configured to store a transmission timing management table in which an identifier for identifying the operational state in the image forming apparatus and transmission timing determination information for determining the timing to transmit the program according to the operational state are associated with each other and registered, wherein the determination unit determines the timing to transmit the program to the image forming apparatus based on the transmission timing determination information that is associated with the identifier for identifying the operational state based on the operational state information acquired by the acquisition unit and registered in the transmission timing management table, wherein the determination unit determines to use predetermined timing as the timing to transmit the program to the image forming apparatus when the identifier for identifying the operational state based on the operational state information acquired by the acquisition unit is not registered in the transmission timing management table.