Electronic device monitoring method, electronic device computer and program thereof

• US 20080235374A1
• Filed: 05/16/2008
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tatsuya Ikeda
• Original Assignee: Tatsuya Ikeda
• Inventors: Ikeda, Tatsuya
• Granted Patent: US 8,886,698 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/022 Multivendor or multi-standard integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0253 using browsers or web-pages for accessing management information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

Processing relating to maintenance of a monitoring subject device is performed by detecting by a computer an IP address of an electronic device connected to a LAN, automatically referring to communication protocol specification data indicating a communication protocol with the electronic device indicated in remote maintenance management data provided in advance or obtained from the electronic device, and performing a communication with the electronic device by using said communication protocol and the IP address indicated by the communication protocol specification data.

Claims

1-42. -42. (canceled)

43. A method of monitoring the condition of an electronic device from a plurality of computers, comprising:

performing communication with said plurality of computers;

storing a communication address of said electronic device and a transmission destination table composed of a plurality of entries; and

controlling operation of said electronic device,

wherein the plurality of entries has an index number, a transmission destination communication address and a status indicating whether or not rewriting of the entry is possible,

wherein, when said electronic device is started up, rebooted or initialized or when the communication address of said electronic device is changed after said electronic device was started up, rebooted or initialized last, the entries of said transmission destination table are initialized to set the transmission destination addresses of the entries to predetermined initial addresses,

wherein the entries of the transmission destination table are changed and set when, after a first request transmitted from a first computer for setting the transmission destination address of an entry designated by the first computer to a designated address is received, a second request transmitted from a second computer for setting a transmission destination address of an entry same as the entry designated by the first computer to an address designated by the second computer, when the status of the entry designated by the first computer in the first request indicates that rewriting of the entry is possible, the transmission designation address of the entry to the address designated by the first computer, transmit a response indicating that the processing ended normally to the first computer and then transmit a response indicating an error to the second computer.

44. The electronic device as set forth in claim 43, wherein, when, after a third request transmitted from the first computer for adding an entry designated by the first computer is received, a fourth request transmitted from the second computer for adding an entry same as the entry designated by the first computer by means of the second computer,

storing the entry designated by the first computer in the third request, transmitting a response indicating that the processing ended normally to the first computer, and then

transmitting a response indicating an error to the second computer.

45. A method of monitoring an electronic device, comprising:

connecting a plurality of computers through a network; and

monitoring the electronic device by said plurality of computers, the condition of said electronic device being monitored from said plurality of computers through said network,

wherein the electronic device accomplishes the steps of;

performing communication with said plurality of computers,

storing a communication address of said electronic device and a transmission destination table composed of a plurality of entries, and

controlling operation of said electronic device,

wherein the plurality of entries has an index number, a transmission destination communication address and a status indicating whether rewriting of the entry is possible,

wherein, when said electronic device is started up, rebooted or initialized or when the communication address of said electronic device is changed after said electronic device was started up, rebooted or initialized last, the entries of said transmission destination table are initialized to set the transmission destination addresses of the entries to predetermined initial addresses,

wherein the entries of the transmission destination table are changed and set when, after a first request transmitted from a first computer for setting the transmission destination address of an entry designated by said first computer to a designated address is received, a second request transmitted from said second computer for setting a transmission destination address of an entry same as the entry designated by said first computer to an address designated by said second computer, when the status of the entry designated by said first computer in the first request indicates that rewriting of the entry is possible, the transmission destination address of the entry to the address designated address by said first computer, transmit a response indicating that the processing ended normally to said first computer and then transmit a response indicating an error to said second computer.

46. An electronic device monitoring method for an electronic device monitoring system where an electronic device is monitored from a plurality of computers through a network, comprising:

initializing, when the electronic device is started up, rebooted or initialized or when the communication address of the electronic device is changed after the electronic device was started up, rebooted or initialized last, entries of the transmission destination table to set the transmission destination addresses of the entries to predetermined initial addresses; and

changing and setting, when, after a first request transmitted from a first computer for setting the transmission destination address of an entry designated by the first computer to a designated address is received, a second request transmitted from a second computer for setting a transmission destination address of an entry same as the entry designated by the first computer to an address designated by the second computer, when the status of the entry designated by the first computer in the first request indicates that rewriting of the entry is possible, the transmission designation address of the entry to the address designated by the first computer, transmitting a response indicating that the processing ended normally to the first computer and then transmitting a response indicating an error to the second computer.