Device management system and method

• US 20060047796A1
• Filed: 06/16/2004
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Olbricht, Eric, Wheeler, Phil
• Granted Patent: US 8,073,925 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A device management system and method is provided. The device management system and method includes a transmission server to transmit a communication from at least one device. A reception server receives the communication from the at least one device. And a device manager coupled to the reception server manages the at least one device by automatically parsing the communication received by the reception server. The device manager authorizes the communication for further processing where the device manager includes a device list including identification data associated with the at least one device. The device manager includes an alert processing component that generates an alert message responsive to the device list.

Claims

13. A device manager, comprising:

a retrieval circuit to retrieve a communication associated with at least one device;

an extraction circuit to extract data from the communication;

a parsing circuit to parse the extracted data;

an authorization circuit to authorize processing of the parsed data; and

a manipulation circuit to manipulate the parsed data responsive to the authorization circuit.

14. The device manager of claim 13 where the communication is an email.

15. The device manager of claim 13 where the retrieval circuit retrieves an email from a server.

16. The device manager of claim 13 where the extraction circuit extracts textual data from an email communication.

17. The device manager of claim 16 where the parsing circuit parses the textual data.

18. The device manager of claim 13 where the authorization circuit generates a device list listing registered devices.

19. The device manager of claim 18

where the authorization circuit compares the at least one device with the device list;

and

where the manipulation circuit operates responsive to the comparison.

20. A method, comprising:

retrieving an email from a server relating to at least one device;

extracting a plurality of raw textual data from the email;

parsing binary data from the plurality of raw textual data;

authorizing the binary data for further processing; and

formatting the binary data responsive to the authorizing.

1. A device management system, comprising:

a transmission server to transmit a communication from at least one device;

a reception server to receive the communication from the at least one device; and

a device manager coupled to the reception server to manage the at least one device by automatically parsing the communication received by the reception server.

2. The device management system of claim 1 where the transmission server is coupled to the least one device through a network.

3. The device management system of claim 1 where the transmission server transmits the communication to the reception server through a global communication network.

4. The device management system of claim 1 where the transmission server is in a different geographic location than the reception server.

5. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager retrieves the communication from the reception server.

6. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager extracts data from the communication.

7. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager parses data from the communication.

8. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager filters the communication.

9. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager transforms data parsed from the communication from a first format to a second format.

10. The device management system of claim 1 where the device manager authorizes the communication for further processing.

11. The device management system of claim 10 where the device manager includes a device list including identification data associated with the at least one device.

12. The device management system of claim 11 where the device manager includes an alert processing component that generates an alert message responsive to the device list.

21. The method of claim 20 comprising transmitting the email from the at least one device to a site server to the server.

22. The method of claim 20 comprising generating a list listing at least one registered device.

23. The method of claim 22 comprising comparing the at least one device to the list.

21-1. The method of claim 20 comprising generating an exception message responsive to the parsing.