LOG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20110149344A1
• Filed: 12/14/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tadahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,564,818 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0733 in a data processing system embedded in an image processing device, e.g. printer, facsimile, scanner
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0766 Error or fault reporting or storing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00923 Variably assigning priority H04N1/0092 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32106 separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0049 By wire, cable or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0091 Digital copier; digital 'photocopier' H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3202 of communication or activity log or report
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

An image forming apparatus transmits a log notification request to a server before log transmission. The server responds to the image forming apparatus by appropriately performing scheduling of a log transmission time to disperse a load. The image forming apparatus transmits a log at a time designated by the server.

Claims

1. A log information management system including an image forming apparatus for transmitting, via a network, log information stored therein, and an information processing apparatus for receiving the log information from the image forming apparatus and managing the received log information,

wherein the image forming apparatus comprises:

a log notification transmitting unit configured to notify the information processing apparatus that the image forming apparatus stores a log, to receive from the information processing apparatus a response against the notification, to extract a log transmission time from the received response and to set the log transmission time; and

a log transmission unit configured to transmit the log to the information processing apparatus at the set log transmission time, and

wherein the information processing apparatus comprises;

a log notification receiving unit configured to receive the notification from the image forming apparatus and to transmit the response to the log notification transmitting unit; and

a log transmission time determination unit configured to determine the log transmission time at which the image forming apparatus transmits the log.

2. The log information management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a log transmission information setting unit configured to set a log transmission time zone in which the image forming apparatus can transmit the log.

3. The log information management system according to claim 1, wherein the log notification transmission unit in the image forming apparatus determines from the received response whether log immediate transmission is permitted,

wherein the log transmission unit immediately transmits a log when the log immediate transmission is permitted, and

wherein the log transmission time determination unit in the information processing apparatus determines whether immediate transmission of the log is performed, and the response includes an intermediate transmission instruction.

4. The log information management system according to claim 1, wherein the transmission time determination unit determines the log transmission time according to device information or log information contained in the response received from the image forming apparatus.

5. The log information management system according to claim 4, wherein the device information includes power consumption information representing electric-power consumption of the image forming apparatus.

6. The log information management system according to claim 4, wherein the log information includes log size information representing a size of a log.

7. A control method for a log information management system including an image forming apparatus for transmitting log information stored therein via a network, and an information processing apparatus for receiving log information from the image forming apparatus and for managing the received log information,

wherein the image forming apparatus performs log notification transmission by sending to the information processing apparatus a notification that the image forming apparatus stores a log, receiving from the information processing apparatus a response to the notification, and extracting a log transmission time from the received response to set a log transmission time,

wherein the image forming apparatus transmits the log to the log information processing apparatus at the set log transmission time,

wherein the information processing apparatus performs log notification reception by receiving the notification from the image forming apparatus and transmitting the response, and

wherein the information processing apparatus performs log transmission time determination by determining the log transmission time at which the image forming apparatus transmits the log.

8. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the control method for the log information management system according to claim 7.