Network device and method of specifying supervised data to be transmitted to system in accordance with calculation logic used for calculating previous timings of data stored in a sensor data database

• US 9,772,893 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Towata, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Matt
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contino, Paul
• Application Number:
  US14/585,275
• Publication Number:
  US 20150205658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• 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 data collected from the network device, the network device comprising:

a plurality of sensors;

a sensor data database in which data detected by each of the plurality of sensors is stored;

a memory storing instructions; and

a processor which can execute the instructions, causing the network device to;

(a) obtain, from the system, condition data for specifying supervised data that the system collects,

(b) update a condition data database of the network device by adding the obtained condition data to the condition data database,

(c) obtain logic from a logic database of the network device, based on information for specifying logic included in the condition data in the condition data database, wherein the logic database stores different pieces of logic,

(d) specify, from among data in the sensor data database, data to be transmitted to the system, wherein the specifying includes (1) using the obtained logic to calculate previous timings of data, and (2) specifying data in the sensor data database corresponding to the calculated previous timings, and

(e) transmit the specified data as supervised data to the system.

2. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the specified data corresponds to time information specified by the logic.

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

4. The network device according to claim 2, wherein the condition data includes information for specifying an event that occurred on the network device, the information for specifying the logic, and information for indicating a time that is traced back, and

wherein the time information is specified by tracing back a time specified by the condition data in accordance with logic specified by the condition data, upon the occurrence of an event specified by the condition data.

5. The network device according to claim 1, wherein data detected by each of the plurality of sensors is stored as a snapshot corresponding to time information in the sensor data database.

6. The network device according to claim 2, wherein the logic database manages logics corresponding respectively to different calculation methods for identifying the time information.

7. A method of specifying data in a network device communicating with a system for performing analysis of data collected from the network device, wherein the network device comprises (a) a plurality of sensors, and (b) a sensor data database in which data detected by each of the plurality of sensors is stored, the method comprising:

obtaining, from the system, condition data for specifying supervised data that the system collects;

updating a condition data database of the network device by adding the obtained condition data to the condition data database;

obtaining logic from a logic database of the network device, based on information for specifying logic included in the condition data in the condition data database, wherein the logic database stores different pieces of logic;

specifying, from among data in the sensor data database, data to be transmitted to the system, wherein the specifying includes (1) using the obtained logic to calculate previous timings of data, and (2) specifying data in the sensor data database corresponding to the calculated previous timings; and

transmitting the specified data as supervised data to the system.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program therein for causing a computer to perform a method of specifying data in a network device communicating with a system for performing analysis of data collected from the network device, wherein the network device comprises (a) a plurality of sensors, and (b) a sensor data database in which data detected by each of the plurality of sensors is stored, the method comprising:

obtaining, from the system, condition data for specifying supervised data that the system collects;

updating a condition data database of the network device by adding the obtained condition data to the condition data database;

obtaining logic from a logic database of the network device, based on information for specifying logic included in the condition data in the condition data database, wherein the logic database stores different pieces of logic;

specifying, from among data in the sensor data database, data to be transmitted to the system, wherein the specifying includes (1) using the obtained logic to calculate previous timings of data, and (2) specifying data in the sensor data database corresponding to the calculated previous timings; and

transmitting the specified data as supervised data to the system.