Patent ID: 11972359
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. The user management method according to claim 1, further comprising
communicating, by the server device, with each of the one or more appliances to receive the appliance use information of each of the one or more appliances,
wherein the appliance identification information is for identifying a type of each of the one or more appliances, and
in the analyzing, the appliance use information of each of the one or more appliances is analyzed to identify a function from among a plurality of functions of each type of each of the one or more appliances as the one or more first functions, the function having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value determined for each of the one or more appliances.