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

Claim 12:
13. An information processing apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the information processing apparatus to perform functions of:
a first registration unit configured to register a plurality of devices;
wherein two or more of the plurality of devices is also registered in association with a first group of a plurality of groups; and
wherein another device of the plurality of devices is not registered in association with any group of the plurality of groups; and
a changing unit configured to change, 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 another information processing apparatus,
wherein
each notification is based on information about a status or condition of a corresponding device, and
the user interface is configured in such a manner that the changing of a notification setting is made by selecting 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.