Processing method of device information and network device in device information management system

• US 20060212602A1
• Filed: 05/25/2006
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukasawa, Nobuaki, Sanbe, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US11/439,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20060212602A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6272 by registering files or documents with a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4541 Directories for service discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

In a device information management system in which a management server for managing device information and various devices are connected, a plurality of different types of device information is transmitted to the management server at predetermined timings, respectively. In a device information management system in which a management server for managing device information and various devices are connected, a request to transmit the device information to the management server is transmitted to another device and the device information of the requesting device is transmitted to the management server in accordance with the request.

Claims

1. A processing method of device information in a network system in which a management server for managing device information and various devices are connected, comprising:

a transmitting step of transmitting a plurality of different types of device information to said management server at predetermined timings, respectively.

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