US 12,277,355 B2
Communication apparatus that regulates use of a specific function when a program update is not executed, control method, and storage medium
Ryoko Kojima, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/539,421.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-012000 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0256196 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1225 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/121 (2013.01); G06F 3/1234 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication apparatus capable of providing a specific function as a service according to an agreement, the communication apparatus comprising:
one or more processors that, by executing instructions stored in one or more memories, function as:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a server, first information about an update for correcting an error in a program;
an update unit configured to update the program based on the information about the update; and
a regulation unit configured to regulate use of functions in the communication apparatus,
wherein the regulation unit
regulates the use of the specific function in a case where the information about the update acquired by the acquisition unit is first information about an update to correct an error relevant to provision of the service and the update is not executed by the update unit based on the first information, and
does not regulate the use of the specific function in a case where the information about the update acquired by the acquisition unit is second information about an update to correct an error irrelevant to the provision of the service and the update is not executed by the update unit based on the second information.