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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTetsuro Motoyama, Masaichi Niro
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A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and an end user or a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device which is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device by an end user to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall.
A method of monitoring usage of an image output device, comprising:
An apparatus for monitoring usage of an image output device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform a method of monitoring usage of an image output device, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.