ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, UPDATING METHOD OF SOFTWARE AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20100199271A1
• Filed: 01/28/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Harada, Takuto
• Application Number:
  US12/695,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20100199271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation

Abstract

An electronic apparatus including a software module includes a setting unit configured to set information indicative of a policy at the time of updating the software module based on an operation by a user, an acquirement unit configured to acquire the software module to be updated and information as an index for determining timing for updating the software module and a determination unit configured to determine the timing for updating the software module by using the information set by the setting unit and the information acquired by the acquirement unit.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus including a software module, comprising:

a setting unit configured to set information indicative of a policy at the time of updating the software module based on an operation by a user;

an acquirement unit configured to acquire the software module to be updated and information as an index for determining timing for updating the software module; and

a determination unit configured to determine the timing for updating the software module by using the information set by the setting unit and the information acquired by the acquirement unit.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquirement unit acquires the software module as well as, as the information indicative of the policy at the time of updating the software module, information relating to a materiality degree of a fault to be treated by updating the software module and information indicating whether or not an operation of the electronic apparatus is to be once stopped in the updating, and

wherein the setting unit sets, as an index for determining the timing for updating the software module, the information relating to the materiality degree of the fault to be treated by the updating and information indicating whether or not the operation of the electronic apparatus is allowed to be once stopped in the updating.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquirement unit counts a use frequency of the software module in the electronic apparatus,

wherein the setting unit further sets the use frequency of the software module to be updated based on an operation by the user, and

wherein the determination unit determines the update timing for updating the software module by using the use frequency set by the setting unit and the use frequency thus counted by the acquirement unit.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the acquirement unit further acquires the software module and information indicative of a software module which is to be updated together with the software module, as information indicative of the policy when the software module is updated, and

wherein the determination unit causes the software module, which is to be concurrently updated, to be updated at the same timing.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines the update timing for updating the software module according to a result of checking the information set by the setting unit against the information acquired by the acquirement unit.

6. A method for updating software which updates a software module installed in an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

setting information indicative of a policy for updating the software module based on an operation by a user;

acquiring the software module to be updated and information that serves as an index for determining an update timing in updating the software module; and

determining the timing for updating the software module by using the set information and the acquired information.

7. A storage medium which stores a computer program, comprising:

causing a computer to execute each of steps of a method for updating software according to claim 6.