Patent ID: 9584611
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. A management device configured to manage, through a network, at least one management target device having multiple power supply modes, the management device comprising: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a hop count between the management device and the management target device; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the management target device, a notification destination range of an unspecified notification pertaining to a power supply mode; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the unspecified notification pertaining to the power supply mode can be received from the management target device on the basis of the hop count obtained by the first obtaining unit and the notification destination range obtained by the second obtaining unit; and a requesting unit configured to request the management target device to register the management device as an individual notification destination on the basis of a determination result of the determining unit, wherein the determining unit determines whether or not a communication processing unit of the management target device can carry out response processing while the management target device is in a low power consumption mode, and wherein the requesting unit requests the management target device to register the management device as the individual notification destination in a case in which the determining unit determines that the unspecified notification pertaining to the power supply mode cannot be received from the management target device and that the communication processing unit cannot carry out the response processing while the management target device is in the low power consumption mode.