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US 10,757,172 B2Granted
Management system and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyonori Matsumoto
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Abstract
A system for managing received data is provided, which, as an expiration date and time, sets time at which a notification is executed for each entity written into an expiration date and time table, deletes the entity in response to an event that is a lapse of the expiration date and time, and executes a notification to a registration destination.
Claims7
A management system for receiving data from a plurality of network devices to manage the received data, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the management system to:
- write, as an expiration date and time, into a database, time period information corresponding to time of receiving data from each of the network devices, for each of the network devices;
- execute a notification with respect to a network device corresponding to the expiration date and time, according to a first function to be executed in response to an event based on a lapse of the expiration date and time in the database;
- and
- subsequently write, according to the first function, as the expiration date and time for the network device for which the notification is executed, into the database, time period information corresponding to next time for receiving data from the network device,
- wherein the first function is ended after the expiration date and time is written.
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A management method in a management system for receiving data from a plurality of network devices to manage the received data, the method comprising:
- writing, as an expiration date and time, into a database, time period information corresponding to time of receiving data from each of the network devices, for each of the network devices;
- executing a notification with respect to a network device corresponding to the expiration date and time, according to a first function to be executed in response to an event based on a lapse of the expiration date and time in the database;
- and
- subsequently writing, according to the first function, as the expiration date and time for the network device for which the notification is executed, into the database, time period information corresponding to next time for receiving data from the network device,
- wherein the first function is ended after the expiration date and time is written.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.