Patent ID: 9330285
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A device management system, comprising: a device management apparatus; and a device managed by the device management apparatus, wherein the device management apparatus includes the device includes the processing circuitry is further configured to determine whether the location indicated in the acquired positional information is changed, and acquire the device setting information when the location indicated in the acquired positional information is changed, the device is provided with a memory, the device management system further includes a writing device which is fixedly disposed in an area in which the device is located and which is configured to write writing-device identification information that identifies the writing device in the memory, the processing circuitry acquires the writing-device identification information written in the memory as the positional information from the device, the device management apparatus further includes a device-management information memory that stores therein device identification information that identifies the device and storage-device identification information that identifies the memory in association with the positional information, the processing circuitry further acquires the device identification information and the storage-device identification information from the device, and the processing circuitry determines whether the device indicated in the acquired device identification information and the memory indicated in the acquired storage-device identification information match the device indicated in the device identification information and the memory indicated in the storage-device identification information stored in the device-management information memory, respectively, and when the devices and the memories match, determines whether the location indicated in the acquired positional information is changed.