Device management system
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeigo Matsumoto
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Abstract
A device management system includes one or a plurality of scanning devices for reading and converting a document image of a contract document, an approval document, a receipt, or the like into electronic form to generate scanned document data; a time-stamping server for adding a time stamp to the scanned document data; a time-stamp counter included in each of the scanning devices for counting the number of times the time stamp is used; a document management server for receiving and storing the time-stamped scanned document data; a control panel for causing one of the scanning devices to perform scanning operation; and an administrative PC connected to each of the scanning devices and collectively managing the number of times the time stamp is used by the scanning devices.
Claims6
A device management system comprising:
- one or a plurality of scanning devices for reading and converting a document image of a contract document, an approval document, a receipt, or the like into electronic form to generate scanned document data;
- a time-stamping server for adding a time stamp to the scanned document data;
- a time-stamp counter included in each of the scanning devices for counting the number of times the time stamp is used;
- a document management server for receiving and storing the time-stamped scanned document data;
- a control panel for causing one of the scanning devices to perform scanning operation;
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- an administrative PC connected to each of the scanning devices and collectively managing the number of times the time stamp is used by the scanning devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.