Device management apparatus, device management system, information management method, information management program and recording medium storing the program therein

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949482-B2
Application number	US-201213462978-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2012
Priority date	Mar 17, 2010
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A device management apparatus connected to one or more devices via a data transmission channel includes an input information holding unit for holding an input information group including one or more pieces of input information, each of which is to be connected to device information of a device; a device search unit for detecting the devices by a search; a device information acquiring unit for acquiring the device information from the devices; a cross-checking unit for cross-checking information items of the input information with those of the device information; and a registering and updating unit for performing data registration/update by, when the cross-checking unit determines that there is a common information item between the input information and the device information, connecting a piece of input information to the device information based on item entries of the common information item, and storing the connected information as registry management information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a first connecting unit configured to connect to at least one of a plurality of devices via a network;
a storing unit configured to store information;
a first storing process unit configured to store a input information group in the storing unit, the input information group including each item value of a plurality of input information items corresponding to at least one of the plural devices;
a receiving unit configured to rece…

Assignees

• Ishihara Hisashi
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ishihara Hisashi

Classifications

• H04L12/12 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02B60/33

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02B60/34

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04L67/125

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0893 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic