Patent ID: 11949743
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An information processing apparatus that manages device information of a plurality of devices to be managed in a storage comprising:
at least one memory storing instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the information processing apparatus to:
manage the device information as a management target or as a non-management target in the storage;
display, as selection candidates for selecting a device to which an information-obtaining function is to be applied, a device corresponding to device information managed as a management target, instead of displaying a device corresponding to device information managed as a non-management target to be a selection candidate, wherein the information-obtaining function includes a function for obtaining status information or counter information for the selected device via a network; and
display, as selection candidates for selecting a device to which a specific function different from the information-obtaining function is to be applied, a device corresponding to device information managed as both the management target and the non-management target.