Patent ID: 8699044
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a storage device storing first setting information containing IDs respectively indicating a plurality of settings required for operation control of the information processing apparatus, a first setting value corresponding to each of the IDs, and first discriminating information corresponding to each of the IDs for discriminating whether each of the settings indicated by each of the IDs is of a common setting item or of an apparatus-specific setting item; a user interface that allows a user to perform an input operation; and a controller programmed to execute: an acquisition task that externally acquires second setting information containing the IDs, a second setting value corresponding to each of the IDs, and second discriminating information corresponding to each of the IDs for discriminating whether each of the settings indicated by each of the IDs is of a common setting item or of an apparatus-specific setting item; a storing/reflecting task that, in a case where the second discriminating information corresponding to one of the IDs in the second setting information acquired by said acquisition task discriminates that a setting indicated by the one ID is of a common setting item, stores the second setting value corresponding to the one ID in the storage device to reflect the stored second setting value as the setting information of the information processing apparatus; and a display control task that: wherein the storing/reflecting task stores, in the storage device, the specific setting value input by the user via the input screen to reflect as the setting information of the information processing apparatus, in a case where the second discriminating information corresponding to the another ID in the second setting information acquired by said acquisition task discriminates that the setting indicated by the another ID is of an apparatus-specific setting item.