Information transmission system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigetaka Yoshida, Atsushi Kojima, Hideto Matsumoto, Kiyotaka Ohara
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Abstract
In a printer connected to a network, email appended with link information is prepared for enabling an administrator to access information about the printer network terminal. The email is transmitted to the administrator terminal at a predetermined timing. Then, the administrator terminal accesses the information based on the link information appended to the email. As such, when a problem occurs in the printer, operations for resolving the problem can be quickly undertaken by the administrator.
Claims17
A terminal information notification system comprising:
- a network terminal connected to a network;
- and
- an administrator terminal that is connected to the network and is capable of confirming information about the network terminal, the information about the network terminal being notified to the administrator terminal by email,
- wherein the network terminal includes:
- an information server capable of submitting or changing information about the network terminal in accordance with a request from the administrator terminal;
- a detection unit that detects occurrence of a problem, the detection unit capable of detecting a plurality of problems, the detection unit notifying problem information to the administrator terminal by email when the detection unit detects occurrence of a problem;
- a link information storage unit that stores a plurality of link information, each link information corresponding to each of the plurality of problems, each link information being for accessing the information server and changing the information;
- and
- a link information appending unit that appends to the email, link information associated with the problem, the link information for accessing the information server and changing the information, and
- wherein the administrator terminal includes:
- an information server access unit that accesses the information server of the network terminal based on the link information appended to the email notified by the network terminal.
A method for notifying information about a network terminal to an administrator terminal connected to the network by an email, the network terminal being connected to the network and having an information server capable of submitting the information, comprising:
- detecting, at the network terminal, occurrence of at least one of a plurality of problems and notifying problem information to the administrator terminal by email when the at least one of the plurality of problems is detected;
- storing a plurality of link information in the network terminal, each link information corresponding to each of the plurality of problems, each link information being for accessing the information server and changing the information;
- appending to the email, at the network terminal, a corresponding one of the plurality of link information associated with the detected problem for accessing the information server;
- accessing, at the administrator terminal, the information server of the network terminal based on the link information appended to the email notified by the network terminal;
- and
- changing, at the administrator terminal, the information about the network terminal in accordance with a request from the administrator terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.