Component replacement method and component replacement system
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorJunya KAMIJIMA
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Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a component replacement method and a component replacement system that require less labor of a user and are lower in cost as compared with the prior art. This component replacement method comprises: collecting a component log of the component; predicting replacement time of the component based on the component log that has been collected; ordering a new component at the replacement time that has been predicted, and storing the new component that has been delivered as an inventory; making, by the user, a request for component replacement when the component degrades or fails; and delivering, to the user, the component that has been added to the inventory in response to the request from the user.
Claims16
A component replacement method of replacing by a service provider a component of an electronic device of a user, the component replacement method comprising:
- collecting a component log of the component;
- predicting replacement time of the component based on the component log that has been collected;
- ordering a new component at the replacement time that has been predicted, and storing the new component that has been delivered as an inventory;
- making, by the user, a request for component replacement when the component degrades or fails;
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- delivering, to the user, the component that has been added to the inventory in response to the request from the user.
A component replacement system that causes a service provider to replace a component of an electronic device of a user, the component replacement system comprising:
- a component log management server that collects a component log of the component;
- a component log analyzer that predicts replacement time of the component based on the component log that has been collected;
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- an inventory warehouse management server that orders a new component at the replacement time that has been predicted, manages the new component that has been delivered as an inventory, and arranges to deliver the new component to the user in response to a request for component replacement made by the user when the component degrades or fails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.