Patent ID: 11968161
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising:
a device management server configured to obtain device information from a plurality of devices;
a chat server configured to transmit, to an information processing apparatus, notifications based on the device information obtained by the device management server;
one or more processors; and
one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes an apparatus to perform functions of:
a registration unit configured to register the plurality of devices, wherein two or more devices of the plurality of devices are also registered in association with a first group of a plurality of groups;
a setting unit configured to receive, at a user interface, a notification setting so that notifications are enabled for one or more of the plurality of devices, the notifications to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus,
wherein
each notification is based on information about a status or condition of the a corresponding device, and
the user interface is configured in such a manner that the notification setting is received via a selection of a notification setting from among a plurality of notification settings, the plurality of notification settings including:
a first notification setting by which notifications for a device associated with the first group are enabled without enabling notifications for other one or more devices in the first group, and
a second notification setting by which notification settings for each of the two or more devices associated with the first group are changed based on a single user input;
a determination unit configured to determine whether notifications are set to be enabled by the setting unit;
a generation unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the notifications are set to be enabled, generate notifications based on the device information; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit the notifications generated by the generation unit to the information processing apparatus.