Patent Document ID: 20170262240
Application ID: 15450117
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing system comprising: a plurality of image forming apparatuses; and at least one server apparatus, the image forming apparatuses and the server apparatus being mutually connected via a network, the server apparatus including a manager configured to manage load statuses of the plurality of image forming apparatus, each of the image forming apparatuses including a determiner configured to, upon determining that information processing is not to be performed by the image forming apparatus to which the determiner belongs based on a load status of the image forming apparatus to which the determiner belongs, determine whether or not the other image forming apparatuses include an alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing based on load statuses of the other image forming apparatuses acquired from the server apparatus, and a requester configured to, when the other image forming apparatuses include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the alternative image forming apparatus to perform the information processing, but when the other image forming apparatuses do not include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the server apparatus to perform the information processing.