Patent ID: 11871231
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A management target apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to:
transmit apparatus information of own apparatus, the apparatus information including apparatus status information indicating a status of the management target apparatus, using a predetermined communication protocol to a communication terminal;
transmit process request information for receiving process information, to a mediating apparatus that mediates between a plurality of management target apparatuses including the management target apparatus and the communication terminal;
receive the process information indicating a predetermined process for each of a plurality of management target apparatuses including the management target apparatus, created based on the apparatus status information transmitted from the communication terminal through the mediating apparatus; and
execute the predetermined process indicated by the process information when the process information includes own apparatus identification information for identifying the own apparatus and the process request information.