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US 8,429,259 B2Granted
Network management system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Suzuki
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Abstract
A network management system includes a plurality of terminal devices, and a network to which the plurality of terminal devices are connected. At least one of the plurality of terminal devices includes a management setting information changing system configured to change management setting information for managing network use by the plurality of terminal devices, and a management setting information restoring system configured to perform a restoring operation for restoring the management setting information changed by the management setting information changing system, in response to a predetermined restoring condition being satisfied. The present arrangement enables use of at least one peripheral device by the plurality of terminal devices according to different management settings.
Claims20
A network management system, comprising:
- a plurality of terminal devices;
- a network to which the plurality terminal devices are connected;
- and
- at least one peripheral device connected to the network, the at least one peripheral device being used in common by the plurality of terminal devices via the network based on communication setting information;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of terminal devices comprises:
- a display unit;
- a communication setting information acquiring system that acquires new communication setting information to be set for the at least one peripheral device;
- a display controller that controls the display unit to display a mode selecting screen for prompting a user to select one of:
- a restoring mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is restored to previous communication setting information in response to a predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
- and
- a definite mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is definitely rendered valid;
- and
- a communication setting information sending system that sends, to the at least one peripheral device via the network, the new communication setting information acquired by the communication setting information acquiring system, wherein:
- the at least one peripheral device comprises:
- a communication setting information receiving system that receives the new communication setting information from the at least one of the plurality of terminal devices via the network;
- a setting changing system that:
- when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information without deleting the previous communication setting information;
- and
- when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information and deletes the previous communication setting information;
- and
- an automatic setting restoring system that:
- when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, automatically restores the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to the previous communication setting information in response to the predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
- and
- when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, does not restore the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to previous communication setting information even if the predetermined restoring condition is satisfied.
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A network management system, comprising:
- a plurality of terminal devices;
- a network to which the plurality terminal devices are connected;
- at least one peripheral device connected to the network, the at least one peripheral device being used in common by the plurality of terminal devices via the network based on communication setting information;
- a display unit;
- a communication setting information acquiring system that acquires new communication setting information to be set for the at least one peripheral device;
- a display controller that controls the display unit to display a mode selecting screen for prompting a user to select one of:
- a restoring mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is restored to previous communication setting information in response to a predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
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- a definite mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is definitely rendered valid;
- a communication setting information sending system that sends, to the at least one peripheral device via the network, the new communication setting information acquired by the communication setting information acquiring system;
- a communication setting information receiving system that receives the new communication setting information from the communication setting information sending system via the network;
- a setting changing system that:
- when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information without deleting the previous communication setting information;
- and
- when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information and deletes the previous communication setting information;
- and
- an automatic setting restoring system that:
- when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, automatically restores the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to the previous communication setting information in response to the predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
- and
- when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, does not restore the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to previous communication setting information even if the predetermined restoring condition is satisfied.
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A terminal device connectable to a network,
- the terminal device comprising:
- a display unit;
- a communication setting information acquiring system that acquires new communication setting information to be set for at least one peripheral device connected to the network, the at least one peripheral device being used by the terminal device via the network based on communication setting information;
- a display controller that controls the display unit to display a mode selecting screen for prompting a user to select one of:
- a restoring mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is restored to previous communication setting information in response to a predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
- and
- a definite mode where the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device is definitely rendered valid;
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- a communication setting information sending system that sends, to the at least one peripheral device via the network, the new communication setting information acquired by the communication setting information acquiring system,
- wherein the terminal device is communicable with a peripheral device via the network based on communication setting information, the peripheral device comprising:
- a communication setting information receiving system that receives the new communication setting information from the at least one of the plurality of terminal devices via the network;
- a setting changing system
- that, when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information without deleting the previous communication setting information, and
- that, when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the at least one peripheral device to the received new communication setting information and deletes the previous communication setting information;
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- an automatic setting restoring system
- that, when the restoring mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, automatically restores the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to the previous communication setting information in response to the predetermined restoring condition being satisfied, and
- that, when the definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, does not restore the new communication setting information set for the at least one peripheral device to previous communication setting information even if the predetermined restoring condition is satisfied.
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A device connectable to a network, the device being used by a plurality of terminal devices in common via the network based on communication setting information, the device comprising:
- a communication setting information receiving system that receives new communication setting information from at least one of the plurality of terminal devices via the network;
- a setting changing system that:
- when notified that a restoring mode is selected via a mode selecting screen displayed on a display unit of the at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, changes previous communication setting information currently set for the device to the received new communication setting information without deleting the previous communication setting information, the restoring mode being a mode where the new communication setting information set for the device is restored to the previous communication setting information in response to a predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
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- when notified that a definite mode is selected via the mode selecting screen displayed on the display unit, changes the previous communication setting information currently set for the device to the received new communication setting information and deletes the previous communication setting information, the definite mode being a mode where the new communication setting information set for the device is definitely rendered valid;
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- an automatic setting restoring system that:
- when notified that the restoring mode is selected, automatically restores the new communication setting information set for the device to the previous communication setting information in response to the predetermined restoring condition being satisfied;
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- when notified that the definite mode is selected, does not restore the new communication setting information set for the device to previous communication setting information even if the predetermined restoring condition is satisfied.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.