Patent ID: 8953201
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: a modifying unit that individually modifies a plurality of items of setting information that are stored in the image forming device prior to modification; a specifying unit that specifies an item of the setting information which is not modified by the modifying unit; a communication unit that communicates with an external device; an acquiring unit that acquires reference setting information corresponding to each of the plurality of items of the setting information from the external device via the communication unit; an updating unit that updates the item of the setting information specified by the specifying unit based on the reference setting information acquired by the acquiring unit; and an assigning unit that assigns updatability information indicating updatability of an item of the setting information to an item of the setting information selected in accordance with an user's operation, wherein the updating unit updates the item of the setting information to which the updatability information is assigned by the assigning unit when the setting information is determined to be updatable based on the updatability information and does not update the setting information when the setting information is determined not to be updatable, and wherein the updating unit identifies a group to which an item of the setting information belongs in accordance with group information and updates all of the items of the setting information included in the group when at least one item of the setting information included in the group is specified by the specifying unit as one which is not modified by the modifying unit, or when at least one item of the setting information included in the group is determined to be updatable based on the updatability information.