Patent ID: 8305603
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A job processing apparatus which has a rewritable storage unit for storing software and executes a job by using the software, comprising: a registration unit for registering a job; a specifying unit for specifying a type of software which is used to execute the job registered by said registration unit; a first determination unit for, based on a request to change software, determining whether the software to be changed is the type of the software specified by said specifying unit; and a second determination unit for determining whether there is another job processing apparatus which can execute the software to be changed, a reconstruction unit for, when said second determination unit determines that the software to be changed exists in the job processing apparatus and another job processing apparatus, reconstructing information stored in a software information storage unit in order to execute the software to be changed in said another job processing apparatus; and a change holding unit for, when said second determination unit determines that the software to be changed exists in the job processing apparatus and does not exist in any other job processing apparatus, shifting the request to a holding state, wherein said change holding unit comprises: