Information provision system and information provision method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTAKUYA HAYATO
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Abstract
There is provided an information provision system including: a database configured to store history information indicating a replacement history of replaceable parts constituting an image-forming apparatus; a generation unit configured to determine one or more parts currently constituting the image-forming apparatus from the history information and generate state information of the image-forming apparatus based on a state of the one or more parts; and an information provision unit configured to provide the state information of the image-forming apparatus generated by the generation unit to a user terminal, in response to a request from the user terminal.
Claims13
An information provision system comprising:
- a database configured to store history information indicating a replacement history of replaceable parts constituting an image-forming apparatus;
- a generation unit configured to determine one or more parts currently constituting the image-forming apparatus from the history information and generate state information of the image-forming apparatus based on a state of the one or more parts;
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- an information provision unit configured to provide the state information of the image-forming apparatus generated by the generation unit to a user terminal, in response to a request from the user terminal.
An information provision method performed by a server apparatus that is capable of performing communication with a user terminal, the information provision method comprising:
- storing history information indicating a replacement history of replaceable parts constituting an image-forming apparatus in a database;
- determining one or more parts currently constituting the image-forming apparatus from the history information stored in the database;
- generating state information of the image-forming apparatus based on a state of the one or more parts;
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- providing the generated state information of the image-forming apparatus to the user terminal, in response to a request from the user terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.