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Monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatus, control method executed by the monitoring apparatus, program for implementing the control method, and management apparatus, control method executed by the management apparatus, and program for implementing the control method

  • US 20040205140A1
  • Filed: 01/09/2004
  • Published: 10/14/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A monitoring apparatus capable of acquiring information by communication from at least one image forming apparatus to be monitored and communicating with a management apparatus, comprising;

  • an e-mail device that carries out communication with the management apparatus by e-mail;

    a processing device operable when said e-mail device has received second modules for updating first modules, on which the monitoring apparatus operates, from the management apparatus by e-mail, to automatically update the first modules in operation to the second modules;

    an information collecting device that collects version information on the first modules when said e-mail device has received a version information acquisition request from the management apparatus by e-mail; and

    a returning device that sends the version information collected by said information collecting device to the management apparatus by return e-mail.

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