System, application and method for generating proposed state to maintain total output volumes
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKenji Hagiwara
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, applications and methodologies are configured to assist a user to generate a proposed state (e.g., a proposed fleet of devices), for a customer, that largely maintains total output volumes. Thus, obtaining a proposed state analysis can become a manageable task.
Claims13
An output management application configured to generate a proposed state analysis regarding a proposed state proposed for an organization, based on a current state analysis of a current fleet of output devices employed by the organization, the output management application including one or more programs of instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by a computer to configure the computer to perform a method comprising:
- (a) providing an application user interface (UI) to permit a user to specify and modify a proposed fleet of output devices in the proposed state;
- (b) estimating total output volume corresponding to the proposed fleet when the user operates the application user interface to perform any one or more of add a device to the proposed fleet, delete a device from the proposed fleet, and modify an allotted monthly volume usage of a specified device in the proposed fleet, and performing a comparison of (i) total output volume corresponding to the current fleet reflected in the current state analysis, and (ii) the estimated total output volume corresponding to the proposed fleet of output devices;
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- (c) providing by the application user interface, when the output management application determines, based on the comparison performed in (b), that the estimated total output volume corresponding to the proposed fleet of output devices is different from the total output volume corresponding to the current fleet reflected in the current state analysis, (i) a notification that indicates a difference in the total output volumes as between the proposed state including the proposed fleet and the current state reflected in the current state analysis, and (ii) user interface provision to permit the user to specify an instruction, via the application user interface, to further modify the proposed fleet indicated in the proposed state and repeat (b)-(c) for the proposed fleet as modified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.