Patent ID: 9386170
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An operation performing system, comprising: a device connected to the Internet via a router and capable of performing a certain operation; a service providing server on the Internet configured to provide a service that causes the device to perform the operation; and a relay server having a first storage and configured to relay between the service providing server and the device, wherein the device and the relay server are connected in a server-push enabled state in which the relay server transmits information generated on the Internet to the device via the router by use of a communication protocol and the device subsequently receives the information transmitted from the relay server, wherein the service providing server is configured to execute a first command-transmission processing for transmitting a performance command that commands performance of the certain operation and that includes specific information for identifying operation information representing the operation to be performed by the device, wherein the relay server is configured to execute wherein the device is configured to execute processings comprising wherein the relay server is configured to execute wherein the device has a nonvolatile second storage, wherein the device is configured to execute a third storage processing for storing, in the second storage, the status information indicative of the status of the operation that is being performed in the operation performing processing, every time when timing to store the status information in the second storage comes during performance of the operation, and wherein, in the first status-transmission processing executed by the device, where not-yet-transmitted status information is stored in the second storage, notification information is transmitted to the relay server, together with the not-yet-transmitted status information, in response to switching of the power source of the device from off to on.