Notification method, management apparatus and client apparatus

• US 8,553,244 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): DICKERSON, CHAD S
• Application Number:
  US12/349,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20090195806A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,736 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358 111- 118, 709/220, 709/223, 709/224, 709/203, 709217-219, 707/999.001, 707/999.01, 717168-178
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5079 for maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

When a change occurs in the status of an image processing apparatus, update information in which the status change is written is generated, and the status change of the image processing apparatus is notified to a client apparatus with a function for delivering the generated update information. A printer driver for the image processing apparatus is distributed from a management apparatus that manages the image processing apparatus to the client apparatus, and the function for delivering the update information is registered with the client apparatus.

Claims

1. A notification method of a change in a status of an image processing apparatus to a client apparatus via a network, the notification method comprising:

when a change occurs in the status of the image processing apparatus, generating update information in which the status change is written;

notifying the client apparatus of the status change of the image processing apparatus with a function for delivering the generated update information, based on a device status monitoring setting input by a user;

when receiving a delivery request for a printer driver of the image processing apparatus after a user has performed a device status monitoring setting, a management apparatus determines whether the image processing apparatus has a RSS data generating function,

if the image processing apparatus is determined to not contain the RSS data generating function, the user selects a target event to be notified to the client apparatus;

after the target event is selected, delivering from a management apparatus that manages the image processing apparatus a driver installation application that is utilized for installing a printer driver of the image processing apparatus on the client apparatus;

acquiring printer information associated with the printer driver of the image processing apparatus required for installing the printer driver;

ordering, in a single instruction, both installation of the printer driver using the printer information and registration of an RSS feed for receiving the generated update information from the management apparatus after the driver installation application is delivered

receiving the status of the image processing apparatus after a result of execution of the RSS feed registration is received from the client apparatus;

wherein the printer driver is installed on the client apparatus using the driver installation application.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program for causing a computer to execute the notification method according to claim 1 is recorded.

2. A management apparatus that manages an image processing apparatus via a network and notifies a client apparatus of a status change of the image processing apparatus, the management apparatus comprising:

a generating unit configured to, when a change occurs in the status of the image processing apparatus, generate update information in which the status change is written;

a notification unit configured to notify the client apparatus of the status change of the image processing apparatus with a function for delivering the generated update information, based on a device status monitoring setting input by a user;

when receiving a delivery request for a printer driver of the image processing apparatus after a the user has performed a device status monitoring setting, a management utility determines whether the image processing apparatus has a RSS data generating function,

if the image processing apparatus is determined to not contain the RSS data generating function, the user selects a target event to be notified to the client apparatus;

after the target event is selected, a delivering unit configured to, deliver a driver installation application that is utilized for installing a printer driver of the image processing apparatus on the client apparatus;

an acquiring unit configured to acquire printer information associated with the printer driver of the image processing apparatus required for installing the printer driver;

an ordering unit configured to order, in a single instruction, both installation of the printer driver using the printer information and registration of an RSS feed for receiving the generated update information after the driver installation application is delivered;

a receiving unit configured to receive the status of the image processing apparatus after a result of execution of the RSS feed registration is received from the client apparatus;

wherein the printer driver is installed on the client apparatus using the driver installation application.