Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110004945 | DEVICE MANAGING APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A device managing apparatus for managing software installed in at least one device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a software item to be installed in the device requires license validation; a validation unit configured to perform a license validation operation on the software item for which the determination unit determines that license validation is required, depending on an available license for the software item; and a setting unit configured to set a license issued by the validation unit in the device in which the software item is installed. | 01-06-2011 |
20130179556 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, provided is an information processing device that is capable of communicating with an apparatus through a first communication path and is capable of communicating with an apparatus management device for managing the apparatus through a second communication path. The information processing device includes: a searching unit that searches apparatuses capable of communicating with the information processing device; a registration requesting unit that requests the apparatus capable of communicating with the information processing device through the first communication path among the searched apparatuses to register thereto management information for the apparatus; and a notifying unit that notifies the apparatus management device of the management information based on notification indicating a fact that the management information has been registered from the apparatus. | 07-11-2013 |
20130312118 | DEVICE MANAGING APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A device managing apparatus for managing software installed in at least one device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a software item to be installed in the device requires license validation; a validation unit configured to perform a license validation operation on the software item for which the determination unit determines that license validation is required, depending on an available license for the software item; and a setting unit configured to set a license issued by the validation unit in the device in which the software item is installed. | 11-21-2013 |
20140043144 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management system includes a device management apparatus and a device managed by the device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a positional-information acquiring module configured to acquire positional information on a location of the device; a device-setting information acquiring module configured to acquire device setting information indicative of device setting corresponding to the location indicated in the acquired positional information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the acquired device setting information. The device includes a device control module configured to perform control based on the device setting indicated in the device setting information transmitted from the device management apparatus. | 02-13-2014 |
20140207931 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus includes a device information acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of region information and pieces of model information from devices, respectively. Each piece of region information is about a region where the corresponding device is present. Each piece of model information indicates a model representing a type of the corresponding device. The apparatus also includes a first information generating unit configured to generate first information associating the region indicated by each piece of region information with the model present in the region; and a third information generating unit configured to generate third information associating the models included in the first information with device setting contents, respectively. Each device setting content is defined by second information and is determined in accordance with at least one of the region where the model corresponding to the each device setting content is present and another model present in the region. | 07-24-2014 |
20150077797 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, OBJECT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A management apparatus includes a search part that requests a plurality of communication devices to search for a terminal device to obtain search information from a communication device that detects the terminal device via communication. The search information includes object identifying information for identifying an object to be managed to which the terminal device is attached, location information regarding a location where the object locates, and storage location information indicating a storage location of the object. The terminal device stores the object identifying information and the storage location information. The management apparatus also includes a determination part that determines whether the object is stored at the storage location based on the search information; and an output part that outputs a result of the determination. | 03-19-2015 |
20160044205 | EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND EQUIPMENT - There are included: a processing-result-information-acquiring-unit that acquires, from each equipment, processing result information associating communication device identification information for identifying a communication device being installed corresponding to the equipment and processing request information regarding a processing request; a layout-information-acquiring-unit that acquires layout information associating, with each piece of the communication device identification information, area information indicating an area where the communication device indicated by the communication device identification information is installed; a proposal-information-acquiring-unit that acquires proposal information associating, for each type of area, a proposal condition and a proposed content; a determining-unit that determines, for each area, whether the proposal condition is satisfied or not, based on a plurality of pieces of the processing result information, the layout information, and the proposal information; and an output-control-unit that causes, when the proposal condition is satisfied, an output unit to output a proposed content associated with the proposal condition. | 02-11-2016 |
20160127183 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A device management apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a setting value of a setting item to be set on one or more devices, the setting value being contained in first setting information representing a range of values settable on a first device among the devices; a conversion unit configured to convert the setting value, based on second setting information representing a range of values settable on a second device among the devices, and the first setting information; and an application request unit configured to request the second device to apply the setting value after being converted by the conversion unit, to the second device. | 05-05-2016 |