Patent ID: 11930138
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A management apparatus that manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the management apparatus comprising:
a storage that stores histories of user operations on the image forming apparatuses for the plurality of image forming apparatuses, respectively, for a plurality of users, wherein each of the image forming apparatuses includes an operation detector that detects the user operations on the image forming apparatus, and the history of each of the image forming apparatuses includes a latest operation time that is a latest time among times when the user operations on the image forming apparatus have been detected;
a hardware processor that
determines an image forming apparatus recommended to be operated from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on a length of an elapsed time from the latest operation time of each of the image forming apparatuses using the histories of the user operations of the image forming apparatuses for all of the plurality of users, and
outputs a notification indicating the determined recommended image forming apparatus; and

an operation manager that manages the latest operation time that is a latest time among times when operations of the user on a part have been detected for each of a plurality of the parts of the image forming apparatus for each of the image forming apparatuses, wherein the image forming apparatus includes the plurality of parts that are operable by the user, the image forming apparatus includes a job executor that executes a job accompanied by the user operation on one or more of the parts, and the hardware processor determines the recommended image forming apparatus among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on a length of an elapsed time from the latest operation time of each of the parts of each of the image forming apparatuses.