Apparatus, method, and recording medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiro Hosoda
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Abstract
It requires a lot of money to newly develop a management application operating on an apparatus or an information device for managing the function of the multifunction peripheral from a remote place. To a management apparatus already existing in the market, information including function information which is not an object of management of the management apparatus requested by the management apparatus is returned in a format interpretable for the management apparatus. Further, a function of an apparatus which is not an object of management of the management apparatus is managed by carrying out processing which is not a processing requested by the management apparatus.
Claims15
An apparatus that can communicate with other apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit receiving a request for obtaining information on a function included in the apparatus, from the other apparatus;
- and
- a transmission unit transmitting information on a function different from the function related to the request for obtaining, to the other apparatus in response to the receiving of the request for obtaining by the receiving unit.
An apparatus that can communicate with a management apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit receiving a request for obtaining information on a function of software installed in the apparatus, from the management apparatus;
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- a transmission unit transmitting information on a main body function to the management apparatus in response to the receiving of the request for obtaining by the receiving unit, the main body function being a different function from the software function related to the request for obtaining and being a function of the apparatus which is not installed or uninstalled after shipment of the apparatus.
An apparatus of which a job is managed by a management apparatus, comprising:
- a receiving unit receiving a request for obtaining a job information list of the apparatus from the management apparatus;
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- a transmission unit transmitting information on a function which is not the job but a function included in the apparatus, to the management apparatus in response to the receiving of the request for obtaining by the receiving unit.
An apparatus of which a job is managed by a management apparatus, comprising:
- a unit receiving a request for obtaining a first job list;
- a unit transmitting information on an activated main body function among the main body functions to the management apparatus in response to the received request for obtaining the first job list, the main body functions being functions of the apparatus which are not installed or uninstalled after shipment of the apparatus;
- a unit receiving a request for obtaining a second job list;
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- a unit transmitting information on the terminated main body function among the main body functions to the management apparatus in response to the received request for obtaining the second job list.
A method performed in an apparatus that can communicate with a management apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for obtaining information on a software function installed in the apparatus, from the management apparatus;
- and
- transmitting information on a main body function to the management apparatus in response to the receiving of the request for obtaining by the receiving step, the main body function being a function different from the software function related with the request for obtaining and being a function of the apparatus which is not installed or uninstalled after shipment of the apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.