An information processing apparatus includes a screen information request receiver, an application identification information specifying unit, a screen information transmitter. The screen information request receiver receives, from a device, a screen information request used to request screen information for providing an application. The screen information includes at least dealer information representing a dealer that sells the device. The application identification information specifying unit specifies application identification information corresponding to the dealer information included in the screen information request based on application correspondence relation information representing a correspondence relation between the dealer information and the application identification information identifying an application available to the device. The screen information transmitter transmits, to the device, the screen information for providing the application identified by the application identification information specified by the application identification information specifying unit as a response to the screen information request received by the screen information request receiver.

An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface through which the image forming apparatus communicates with a server and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to: collect learning data; and determine whether to generate a learning model by the server based on the collected learning data or to generate a learning model by the circuitry based on the collected learning data.

An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a plurality of applications; and circuitry to display on a display, a screen including notification information on a function of a particular application of the plurality of applications, and to activate the particular application in response to an input of a request to execute the function on the screen. The particular application configures the circuitry to execute the function in accordance with guide information defining one or more setting items to be set to execute the function and an order of setting the setting items.

An application apparatus includes a removal controller, a selection controller, and a recovery controller. The removal controller performs, in a case where a removal event occurs, control for storing an operation state of an active application as an original operation state and removing the application from an operation target. The selection controller performs, before causing the removed application to be recovered as the operation target, control for allowing a user to select a specific recovery method from among plural recovery methods including a method for reproducing the original operation state. The recovery controller performs, in accordance with the selected specific recovery method, control for causing an operation of the removed application to be recovered.

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a controller. The storage unit is configured to store a firmware that executes a process relating to a basic function of the image processing apparatus. The controller is configured to execute the firmware. The controller stores an application program that executes a process relating to an additional function different from the basic function in the storage unit according to a first operation received by the firmware, executes the application program according to a second operation received by the firmware, and controls a process relating to the additional function among processes to be executed by the application program according to a third operation received by the firmware.

A mediation device that mediates an image forming apparatus and a device management system that generates an F/W update task serving as a task for updating firmware of the image forming apparatus periodically transmits a request for an F/W update task for the image forming apparatus managed by the mediation device itself to the device management system and executes the F/W update task transmitted from the device management system.

A device management system includes an automatic updater that automatically generates an automatic F/W update task in accordance with an automatic F/W update plan which is a setting for automatically generating the automatic F/W update task as a task for updating firmware of an image forming apparatus. The automatic F/W update plan includes specifying of firmware for update and a mode in which the update is fully executed on all electronic apparatuses of a target of the software update. The automatic updater automatically generates the automatic F/W update task in accordance with the automatic F/W update plan at a specific timing in a repeat manner.

An example server includes a processor to receive a first version configuration value to be applied to a first version of an application from a user terminal, determine at least one device to which the configuration value is to be distributed, and identify an application version installed in the at least one device. The server converts the first version configuration value to a second version configuration value to be applied to a second version of the application by using a conversion rule, when a device in which the second version of the application different from the first version of the application is installed is identified, and transmits a configuration file including the second version configuration value to the device in which the second version of the application is installed. Here, the conversion rule includes relationship information between the first version configuration value and the second version configuration value.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: receive a function purchase instruction of an image forming apparatus and based on receiving the function purchase instruction, provide a mobile terminal with execution information, the execution information being for causing the mobile terminal to download a target application and to execute the target application, the target application being an application software for purchasing a function of the image forming apparatus.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a processor of a first terminal device compatible with a first platform, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the first terminal device to accept selection of an image processing apparatus connected with the first terminal device, accept selection of a function to be set up on the first terminal device from among one or more functions executable by the image processing apparatus, install, into the first terminal device, a first program compatible with the image processing apparatus and the first platform, and output an access information image. The access information image represents access information based on the selected function and an address of a web page representing a site of a supply source for a second program compatible with the image processing apparatus and a second platform.