NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD OF SPECIFYING DATA

• US 20150205658A1
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Towata, Hiroaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,772,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0766 Error or fault reporting or storing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1446 Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3089 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors, sensors, probes, agents software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface G06F11/3656; performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/121 Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

A device specifies status data that should be uploaded to a management system using condition data and calculation logic, and uploads only status data that should be uploaded.

Claims

1. A network device communicating with a system for performing analysis of supervised data collected from the network device, comprising:

an obtainment unit that obtains condition data, for specifying supervised data that the system collects, from the system,

a specification unit that specifies data transmitted to the system from among data detected by the network device in accordance with logic corresponding to the condition data, and

a transmission unit that transmits the specified data as the supervised data to the system.

2. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the specification unit specifies data corresponding to time information specified by the logic as supervised data to be transmitted to the system.

3. The network device according to claim 1, wherein data detected by the network device is data detected by a plurality of sensors of the network device, and that data is stored in a storage unit of the network device as a snapshot corresponding to time information.

4. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the condition data, in accordance with a request from the network device in accordance with a predetermined schedule, is obtained from the system.

5. The network device according to claim 1, wherein

the condition data includes information for specifying an event that occurs on the network device, information for specifying the logic, and information for indicating a time that is traced back, and

the specification unit specifies, in accordance with logic specified by the condition data, time information by tracing back a time specified by the condition data, and specifies data corresponding to the specified time information upon an event specified by the condition data occurs.

6. The network device according to claim 1 further comprising a unit that stores data detected by a plurality of sensors of the network device as a snapshot.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program therein for causing a computer to function as the network device according to claim 1.

7. A method of specifying data in a network device communicating with a system for performing analysis of supervised data collected from the network device, comprising:

acquiring condition data, for specifying supervised data that the system collects, from the system,

specifying data transmitted to the system from among data detected by the network device in accordance with logic corresponding to the condition data, and

transmitting the specified data as the supervised data to the system.