Patent ID: 8479190

Claim:
A management system having a terminal device and a management server for managing terminal firmware of the terminal device, wherein: the terminal device includes: storing means which stores the firmware to be capable of being updated by a user of the terminal device, and stores version information of the firmware to be incapable of being updated by the user; firmware updating means which updates, on the basis of the version information, the firmware stored in the storing means with newer version firmware transmitted from the management server; and version information updating means which updates the version information stored in the storing means with the version information of the firmware updated by the firmware updating means; and a control unit that controls a transmitting means of the management server, wherein the control unit is configured to transfer the newer version firmware between the terminal device and the management server via the transmitting means, wherein the management server includes: judging means which judges, on the basis of the version information of the terminal firmware transmitted from the terminal device, a need or not to update the firmware; and the transmitting means which transmits the newer version firmware to the terminal device if it is judged by the judging means that the firmware needs to be updated.