Patent ID: 11930138
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A system comprising:
a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
an information processing apparatus; and
a server that communicates with the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the information processing apparatus,
wherein each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses detects a user operation on the image forming apparatus by an operation detector of the image forming apparatus and transmits information of the detected user operation to the server, and
the server includes:
a storage that stores, for each of the image forming apparatuses, histories of user operations based on the information of the user operations from the image forming apparatus for a plurality of users, the history of each of the image forming apparatuses including a latest operation time that is a latest time among times when the user operations on the image forming apparatus have been detected;
a hardware processor that
determines an image forming apparatus recommended to be operated from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on a length of an elapsed time from the latest operation time of each of the image forming apparatuses using the histories of the user operations of each of the image forming apparatuses for all of the plurality of users, and
outputs a notification indicating the determined recommended image forming apparatus; and

an operation manager that manages the latest operation time that is a latest time among times when operations of the user on a part have been detected for each of a plurality of the parts of the image forming apparatus for each of the image forming apparatuses, wherein the image forming apparatus includes the plurality of parts that are operable by the user, the image forming apparatus includes a job executor that executes a job accompanied by the user operation on one or more of the parts, and the hardware processor determines the recommended image forming apparatus among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on a length of an elapsed time from the latest operation time of each of the parts of each of the image forming apparatuses.