Output apparatus, information processing apparatus, and network system

• US 8,285,882 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Takagi, Eiji
• Primary Examiner(s): RHU, KRIS M
• Application Number:
  US12/697,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20100228883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• 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 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3202 of communication or activity log or report
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/328 Processing of the additional information

Abstract

An output apparatus includes an IP-address setting unit, a setting change detection unit, and a notification information creation unit. The IP-address setting unit sets an IP address of the output apparatus. The setting change detection unit detects a change in the setting of the IP-address setting unit. The notification information creation unit creates information that will be notified to a device that satisfies predetermined conditions upon detection of the setting change by the setting change detection unit.

Claims

1. An output apparatus comprising:

an IP address setting section that sets an IP address of the output apparatus;

a setting change detecting section that detects a change in setting of the IP address setting section;

a use history memory section storing a time of last use of the output apparatus by a device; and

a notification information creating section that creates information that will be notified to the device based on the detection of the setting change by the setting change detecting section and the stored time of last use by the device within a predetermined time period,

wherein the notification information creating section prevents notification of the created information to the device if the stored time of last use by the device is older than a length of the predetermined time period.

2. The output apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an address memorizing section that memorizes an IP address of the device that transmitted the output data to the output apparatus.

3. The output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device is connected to the same local area network as that of the output apparatus.

4. The output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device is connected to the same sub network as that of the output apparatus.

5. An output apparatus comprising:

an IP address setting section that sets an IP address of the output apparatus;

a setting change detecting section that detects new setting of the IP address setting section when the setting is configured anew;

a use history memory section storing a time of last use of the output apparatus by a device; and

a notification information creating section that creates information that will be notified to the device based on the detection of the new setting by the setting change detecting section and the stored time of last use by the device within a predetermined time period,

wherein the notification information creating section prevents notification of the created information to the device if the stored time of last use by the device is older than a length of the predetermined time period.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an IP address registering section that performs registration processing related to an IP address of an output apparatus;

a receiving section that receives, from the output apparatus, data for notifying the information processing apparatus that the IP address of the output apparatus has been changed;

a notification section that displays that the IP address of the output apparatus has been changed if a length of time since a last use of the output apparatus by the information processing apparatus is not older than a length of a predetermined time period;

an operation section that accepts direct user input at the information processing apparatus whether to accept the change of the IP address of the output apparatus; and

a registration information changing section that changes registration information held by the IP address registering section according to reception of the data that notifies the information processing apparatus of the change in the IP address of the output apparatus by the receiving section and the input of the operation section of whether to accept the change of the IP address of the output apparatus.

7. A network system comprising:

an output apparatus that includes

an IP address setting section that sets an IP address of the output apparatus,

a setting change detecting section that detects a change in setting of the IP address setting section,

a use history memory section storing a time of last use of the output apparatus by a device, and

a notification information creating section that creates information that will be notified to the device based on the detection of the setting change by the setting change detecting section and the stored time of last use by the device within a predetermined time period, wherein the notification information creating section prevents notification of the created information to the device if the stored time of last use by the device is older than a length of the predetermined time period; and

an information processing apparatus that includes

an IP address registering section that performs registration processing related to an IP address of an output apparatus,

a receiving section that receives, from the output apparatus, data for notifying the information processing apparatus that the IP address of the output apparatus has been changed, and

a registration information changing section that changes registration information held by the IP address registering section upon reception of the data that notifies the information processing apparatus of the change in the IP address of the output apparatus by the receiving section.