IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE SERVER, LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD

In case of an initial setting operation before shipping an image forming apparatus, since a using period is out of the contract duration, the application is unavailable at the time of the initial setting operation. A license server issues a first license for setting of the application in addition to...

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Main Author YUKI, Naoto
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 18.07.2018
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Summary:In case of an initial setting operation before shipping an image forming apparatus, since a using period is out of the contract duration, the application is unavailable at the time of the initial setting operation. A license server issues a first license for setting of the application in addition to a second license regarding the contract duration of the application. When the first license is received from the license server, if the present date is within the usage period for the setting operation, the application is available for such a period, and if the present date is outside of such a period, the apparatus acquires the second license from the license server. When the second license is received from the license server, the image forming apparatus makes the application available for the contract duration.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20160204032