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US 7,925,933 B2Granted
Multifunctional terminal device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakanori Fujii
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Abstract
A multifunctional terminal device includes a sensing unit that senses a malfunction, and a determining unit that determines a type of the malfunction when a malfunction has occurred. A selecting unit selects according to the type of the malfunction a recovery operation and a notification operation. A recovering unit performs the recovery operation, and a notifying unit performs the notification operation to notify occurrence of the malfunction.
Claims10
A multifunctional terminal device comprising:
- a sensing unit that senses a malfunction;
- a determining unit that determines a type of the malfunction when a malfunction has occurred;
- a selecting unit that selects according to the type of the malfunction a recovery operation out of a plurality of recovery operations and a notification operation out of a plurality of notification operations;
- a recovering unit that performs the recovery operation;
- a storing unit that stores recovery management information representative of a recovery operation to be performed for the sensed malfunction and stores recovery-log data representative of a history of recovery operations performed based on the recovery management information;
- and
- a notifying unit that performs the notification operation to notify occurrence of the malfunction,
- wherein when, after the sensing unit senses a first malfunction and the recovering unit performs the recovery operation corresponding to the first malfunction, the sensing unit senses a same malfunction that is identical to the type of the first malfunction stored as the recovery-log data, the recovering unit does not perform the recovery operation and the notifying unit performs the notification operation corresponding to the same malfunction.
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A method in response to a malfunction that has occurred in a multifunctional terminal device, the method comprising:
- sensing a malfunction;
- determining a type of the malfunction when a malfunction has occurred;
- storing in a storage unit recovery management information representative of a recovery operation to be performed for the sensed malfunction and storing recovery-log data representative of a history of recovery operations performed based on the recovery management information:
- selecting according to the type of the malfunction a recovery operation out of a plurality of recovery operations and a notification operation out of a plurality of notification operations;
- recovering that includes performing the recovery operation;
- and
- notifying that includes performing the notification operation to notify occurrence of the malfunction, wherein
- when, after a first malfunction is sensed at the sensing and the recovery operation corresponding to the first malfunction is performed at the recovering, a same malfunction that is identical to the type of the first malfunction is sensed at the sensing and stored as the recovery-log data, the recovering includes not performing the recovery operation and the notifying unit includes performing a notification operation corresponding to the same malfunction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.