SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SERVER

• Main Author: BANNO HIROKAZU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.10.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide a technology capable of easily finding a device that consumables must be replaced, from multiple installable devices that can be equipped with the same consumables.SOLUTION: When a server receives N pieces of device identification information and N pieces of consumables information from N devices, the server associates the device identification information with the consumables information received with the device identification information for each of the N pieces of device identification information, and stores them. The server performs a dispatch processing to dispatch the N1 consumables when the N1 pieces of consumables information of the N pieces of consumables information in a memory satisfy the consumables replacement condition. The server selects the first device identification information to identify a first device to replace the consumables first from the N2 pieces of device identification information associated with the N2 pieces of consumables information using the N2 pieces of consumables information of the N1 pieces of consumables information after the dispatch processing is performed, and makes an external device execute the notification processing for notifying users that the consumables of the first device must be replaced.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】同じ消耗品を装着可能な複数個の装置の中から消耗品が交換されるべき装置を容易に見つけることが可能な技術を提供する。【解決手段】 サーバは、Ｎ個の装置からＮ個の装置識別情報とＮ個の消耗品情報とが受信される場合に、Ｎ個の装置識別情報のそれぞれについて、当該装置識別情報と、当該装置識別情報と共に受信された消耗品情報と、を対応づけてメモリに記憶し、メモリ内のＮ個の消耗品情報のうちのＮ１個の消耗品情報が消耗品交換条件を満たす場合に、Ｎ１個の消耗品を発送するための発送処理を実行し、発送処理が実行された後に、Ｎ１個の消耗品情報のうちのＮ２個の消耗品情報を利用して、Ｎ２個の消耗品情報に対応付けられているＮ２個の装置識別情報の中から最初に消耗品を交換すべき第１の装置を識別する第１の装置識別情報を選択し、第１の装置の消耗品を交換すべきことをユーザに通知するための通知処理を外部装置に実行させる。【選択図】図６