US 2014/0280512 A1Published application

Non-transitory computer readable medium, server and system

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTakafumi Mori

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Abstract

A server may receive information from one or more service providing apparatuses. Computer-readable instructions may cause the server to store device identification information, type information, and/or a transmission condition in association with service identification information. The server may receive device state information from one or more information devices when an information device determines that a transmission condition is satisfied. The server may also store the received device state information in association with device identification information identifying a specific information device, which transmitted the device state information. Further, the server may transmit, to a specific service providing apparatus, identified by specific service identification information, the device state information stored in association with the specific service identification information.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a server;
and
an information device,
wherein the server comprises:
at least one first processor;
and
a first memory storing first computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the at least one first processor, cause the server to:
receive, from a service providing apparatus, first information comprising:
service identification information for identifying the service providing apparatus;
device identification information for identifying the information device;
type information identifying a type of device state information representing a state of the information device, and
a transmission condition representing a condition that causes the information device to transmit the device state information;
store the device identification, the type information, and the transmission condition in association with the service identification information, in a memory;
and
transmit, to the information device identified by the device identification information, the type information and the transmission condition;
wherein the information device comprises:
at least one second processor;
and
a second memory storing second computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the at least one second processor, cause the information device to:
receive the type information and the transmission condition from the server;
store the received type information and the received transmission condition in a memory;
and
transmit, to the server, the device state information related to the stored type information in response to determining that the transmission condition stored in the second memory is satisfied;
wherein the first computer-readable instructions, when executed by the at least one first processor, cause the server to:
receive, from the information device, the device state information;
store, in a memory, the received device state information in association with the device identification information identifying the information device;
and
transmit, to the service providing apparatus, the device state information received from the information device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a server to:

receive, from a service providing apparatus, first information comprising:
service identification information for identifying the service providing apparatus;
device identification information for identifying an information device;
type information for identifying a type of device state information representing a state of the information device;
and
a transmission condition representing a condition that causes the information device to transmit the device state information;
store the device identification, the type information, and the transmission condition in association with the service identification information, in a memory of the server;
transmit, to the information device identified by the device identification information, the type information and the transmission condition;
receive, from the information device, the device state information related to the type information;
store, in the memory, the received device state information in association with the device identification information identifying the information device;
and
transmit, to the service providing apparatus, the device state information received from the information device.

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A server comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the server to:
receive, from a service providing apparatus, first information comprising:
service identification information for identifying the service providing apparatus;
device identification information for identifying an information device,
type information identifying a type of device state information representing a state of the information device, and
a transmission condition representing a condition that causes the information device to transmit the device state information;
store the device identification, the type information, and the transmission condition in association with the service identification information, in the memory;
transmit, to the information device identified by the device identification information, the type information and the transmission condition;
receive, from the information device, the device state information related to the type information;
store, in the memory, the received device state information in association with the device identification information identifying the information device;
and
transmit, to the service providing apparatus, the device state information received from the information device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.