Method for remote management of multiple device configurations
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorChangsong Sun
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Abstract
A method for remote maintenance of devices includes: configuring one device among a plurality of devices; exporting a configuration file including the configuration of the one device configured by the configuring; editing the exported configuration file; and importing the edited configuration file into a plurality of target applications in at least a part of the plurality of devices other than the one device.
Claims18
A method for remote maintenance of a plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices each having a control unit containing a software platform including configurable device-operating applications, the remote device-maintenance method comprising:
- changing a configurational setting in a base application among the device-operating applications in, as a base device, one of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- via the base application preparing, and exporting into storage in the base device, a configuration file including the changed configurational setting for the base application in the base device;
- editing the exported configuration file to prepare the configuration file to be importable to, as one or more target devices, the other of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- and
- importing the edited configuration file into a target application corresponding to the base application in each of the one or more target devices.
A computer for remote maintenance of a plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices each having a control unit containing a software platform including configurable device-operating applications, the remote device-maintenance computer comprising:
- at least one processor;
- memory;
- and
- program instructions, stored in the memory, that upon execution by the at least one processor cause the computer to perform operations including
- changing a configurational setting in a base application among the device-operating applications in, as a base device, one of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- causing the base device to via the base application prepare, and export into storage in the base device, a configuration file including the changed configurational setting for the base application in the base device;
- editing the exported configuration file to prepare the configuration file to be importable to, as one or more target devices, the other of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- and
- causing a target application corresponding to the base application in each of the one or more target devices to import the edited configuration file.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for remote maintenance of electromechanical devices, the computer readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that upon execution by a processor cause the processor to perform a set of acts for remote maintenance of a plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices each having a control unit containing a software platform including configurable device-operating applications, the set of acts comprising:
- changing a configurational setting in a base application among the device-operating applications in, as a base device, one of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- causing the base device to via the base application prepare, and export into storage in the base device, a configuration file including the changed configurational setting for the base application in the base device;
- editing the exported configuration file to prepare the configuration file to be importable to, as one or more target devices, the other of the plurality of network-linked electromechanical devices;
- and
- causing a target application corresponding to the base application in each of the one or more target devices to import the edited configuration file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.