US 11,811,995 B2
Mediation device for mediating execution of software updating task, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing mediation program, device management system for generating software updating task, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing device management program
Chika Tsuji, Osaka (JP); Hisakazu Nishiyama, Osaka (JP); Jumpei Takagi, Osaka (JP); and Atsushi Matsumoto, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,787.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-219034 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210287 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 1/00962 (2013.01) [G06F 8/65 (2013.01); H04N 1/00938 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mediation device that mediates between an electronic apparatus and a device management system that generates and stores therein a plurality of tasks for updating software of the electronic apparatus, wherein
the mediation device:
periodically transmits a request for the plurality of tasks for the electronic apparatus managed by the mediation device to the device management system;
receives the plurality of tasks from the device management system;
determines whether first specified tasks not being stored in the mediation device are included in the plurality of tasks received from the device management system;
stores therein the first specified tasks other than second specified tasks stored in the mediation device among the plurality of tasks received from the device management system; and
causes the electronic apparatus managed by the mediation device to update the software in accordance with the first specified tasks and the second specified tasks stored in the mediation device.