Patent ID: 11927928
Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An output management apparatus having a control unit comprising a processor configured with a control program to perform operations comprising operation as a processing module, the output management apparatus configured to manage output of input data to the processing module by a device, operation as the processing module generating output data that differs from the input data, based on at least one piece of the input data, operation as the processing module being associated with first metadata indicating a condition of the input data for processing by the processing module, and the input data being associated with second metadata indicating an attribute of the input data, wherein
the processor is configured with the control program to perform operations further comprising:
operation as a first acquisition unit configured to acquire the first metadata;
operation as a second acquisition unit configured to acquire the second metadata; and
operation as a notification unit configured to notify the device of whether the input data is caused to be output to the processing module based on the first and second metadata depending on whether the attribute of the input data indicated by the second metadata satisfies the condition of the input data indicated by the first metadata.