Patent ID: 8390856
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04L,H04N,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a communication unit that receives a request that includes a source of the request and a destination of the request; and a controller that moves into and returns from a low electric power condition of which the power consumption of the controller is low, and that controls the communication unit, wherein when the controller is in the low electric power condition, the communication unit returns a reply to the request and detects a duplication between identification information that identifies the source and identification information that identifies the destination based on the request, the controller returns from the low electric power condition and changes the identification information to another identification information when the communication unit detects the duplication between the identification information, the communication unit returns the identification information, which the controller changes, to the source, and a failure in acquisition of the another identification information is displayed when the another identification information is not acquired.