US 11,687,302 B2
Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium
Atsushi Ikeda, Ibaraki (JP); Takeshi Kogure, Ibaraki (JP); and Hiroaki Koike, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/579,178.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-011931 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0236929 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/126 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1205 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus that stores a first software module that causes the image forming apparatus to execute print process at a time set by a user, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to:
transmit a notification to a second software module stored in the image forming apparatus
periodically at each elapse of a predetermined time interval, wherein the second software module determines, in response to the notification, whether the controller activates the first software module based on current time and the predetermined time interval;
receive, from the second software module that has determined that the controller activates the first software module, information indicating a timing at which the controller activates the first software module; and
activate the first software module in accordance with the received information.