MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: HIBINO TAKESHI, ICHIYAMA SHOHEI, HISADA YUKINA, HASHIMOTO HIDEYUKI, KAWAMURA YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 06.04.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a management apparatus which allows for efficient maintenance operation on a plurality of image forming apparatuses.SOLUTION: A management MFP(Multi-Function Peripheral) 10A includes: a state acquisition unit 110 which acquires information including a state and an identifier of each of MFPs; a maintenance operation acquisition unit which acquires the contents of maintenance operations for the states acquired from the MFPs; a maintenance operation classifying unit 111 which classifies the contents of maintenance operations acquired for each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, by kind; and a maintenance information transmission unit 113 which transmits information formed by associating each of the kinds obtained by the maintenance operation classifying means with an identifier group formed of identifiers of the MFPs 100 having the state corresponding to the maintenance operation of the kind, to a request-source mobile terminal 200.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】複数台の画像形成装置の効率のよいメンテナンス作業の実施を可能にする管理装置を提供する。【解決手段】管理用ＭＦＰ（Ｍｕｌｔｉ−Ｆｕｎｃｔｉｏｎ Ｐｅｒｉｐｈｅｒａｌ）１０Ａは、複数台のＭＦＰのそれぞれについて、ＭＦＰの状態およびＭＦＰの識別子を含む情報を取得するための状態取得部１１０と、複数台のＭＦＰから取得された状態のためのメンテナンス作業の内容を取得するメンテナンス作業取得部と、複数台の画像形成装置のそれぞれについて取得されたメンテナンス作業の内容を、同じ種類毎に分類するメンテナンス作業分類部１１１と、メンテナンス作業分類手段により得られた種類のそれぞれと、種類のメンテナンス作業に対応した状態を有しているＭＦＰ１００の識別子からなる識別子群とを関連付けた情報を、要求元の携帯端末２００に送信するメンテナンス情報送信部１１３と、を備える。【選択図】図６