Information processing apparatus, monitoring method and program, and memory medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToru Niki
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Abstract
In a network print environment in which printers of various residual amount outputting methods exist mixedly, in an information processing apparatus for monitoring a supplement of consumables which are used in the printer which can communicate via a communication line in order to recognize that consumables have properly and newly been supplemented in each printer, there is provided a mechanism having a discriminating unit for discriminating whether the consumables have newly been supplemented into the printer or not by a discriminating method according to the residual amount outputting method of the consumables of the printer.
Claims16
An information processing apparatus for monitoring a plurality of printing apparatuses which can communicate via a communication line and unitarily making stock management associated with a supplement of consumables which are used for recording onto a recording medium with respect to each of said plurality of printing apparatuses, comprising:
- discriminating means for discriminating whether consumables have newly been supplemented into said printing apparatus or not by a discriminating method according to a residual amount outputting method of the consumables of said printing apparatus.
A monitoring method in an information processing apparatus for monitoring a plurality of printing apparatuses which can communicate via a communication line and unitarily making stock management associated with a supplement of consumables which are used for recording onto a recording medium with respect to each of said plurality of printing apparatuses, comprising:
- a discriminating step of discriminating whether consumables have newly been supplemented into said printing apparatus or not by a discriminating method according to a residual amount outputting method of the consumables of said printing apparatus.
A program which is executed by an information processing apparatus for monitoring a plurality of printing apparatuses which can communicate via a communication line and unitarily making stock management associated with a supplement of consumables which are used for recording onto a recording medium with respect to each of said plurality of printing apparatuses, comprising:
- a discriminating step of discriminating whether consumables have newly been supplemented into said printing apparatus or not by a discriminating method according to a residual amount outputting method of the consumables of said printing apparatus.
A computer-readable memory medium which stores a program comprising program codes which are executed by an information processing apparatus for monitoring a plurality of printing apparatuses which can communicate via a communication line and unitarily making stock management associated with a supplement of consumables which are used for recording onto a recording medium with respect to each of said plurality of printing apparatuses, wherein said program has:
- a discriminating step of discriminating whether consumables have newly been supplemented into said printing apparatus or not by a discriminating method according to a residual amount outputting method of the consumables of said printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.