Device for simulating an image forming apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10650291-B2
Application number	US-201816157768-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2018
Priority date	Oct 11, 2017
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A simulation device comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU) that:
simulates an information processing device on a virtual device,
when a state of the information processing device is out of an admissibility condition, executes a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device in a state where a parameter set in the virtual device is different from a parameter set in the information processing device,
determines the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when a state of the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job satisfies the admissibility condition, and
controls the information processing device and sets the determined change parameter in the information processing device when an environment of the information processing device is identical to an environment at a time when the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

2. The simulation device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the environment identical to the environment in which the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition, is an environment in which a user who instructs the execution of the job executed by the information processing device is using the information processing device.

3. The simulation device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the environment identical to the environment in which the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition is in a time zone that includes a time when the information processing device executes the job.

4. The simulation device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CPU further changes a parameter that determines a condition of assigning a task to a plurality of hardware processors of the information processing device.

5. The simulation device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the CPU changes the parameter and assigns a task to a hardware processor that has a small use rate in the plurality of hardware processors,
wherein the task is assigned to a hardware processor that has a large use rate at a time when the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

6. The simulation device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of hardware processors comprise a graphics processing unit (GPU) that executes image processing, and
the CPU changes a parameter that determines whether or not to assign a task to the GPU.

7. A device setting method of causing a simulation device to execute:
simulating an information processing device on a virtual device;
when a state of the information processing device is out of an admissibility condition, executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device in a state where a parameter set in the virtual device is different from a parameter set in the information processing device;
determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when a state of the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job satisfies the admissibility condition; and
controlling the information processing device and setting the determined change parameter in the information processing device when an environment of the information processing device is identical to an environment at a time when the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

8. A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable device setting program causing a computer controlling a simulation device to perform:
simulating an information processing device on a virtual device;
when a state of the information processing device is out of an admissibility condition, executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device in a state where a parameter set in the virtual device is different from a parameter set in the information processing device;
determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when a state of the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job satisfies the admissibility condition; and
controlling the information processing device and setting the determined change parameter in the information processing device when an environment of the information processing device is identical to an environment at a time when the state of the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Inc

Inventors

• Ito Yasutaka
• Uchida Hisashi
• Kubo Hiroaki
• Nakajima Tomoaki
• Shibuta Yoshiaki
• Soejima Hideaki

Classifications

• H04N1/00244

  with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324) · CPC title

• H04N2201/0094

  Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception · CPC title

• H04N1/00973 Primary

  from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal · CPC title

• G06K15/025 Primary

  Simulating output on another printing arrangement, e.g. proof output (matching two or more picture signal generators or two or more picture reproducers H04N1/6052) · CPC title

• H04N1/00915

  Assigning priority to, or interrupting, a particular operation · CPC title