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

Claim 12:
13. A management method executed by a management target apparatus, the method comprising:
transmitting 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;
transmitting 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;
receiving 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
executing 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.