Patent ID: 9712533
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A device management apparatus for notifying unauthorized use of an electronic device, comprising: a network communication circuit that communicates with the electronic device via a specific network; a connection status detecting circuit that detects, via the network communication circuit, a connection status of the electronic device to the specific network; a usage log acquiring circuit that acquires a usage log as at least one of a usage count and a usage amount of the electronic device; and a notification circuit that notifies an unauthorized use of the electronic device, wherein the notification circuit notifies the unauthorized use if the usage logs acquired by the usage log acquiring circuit before and after a time period of disconnection of the electronic device from the specific network are varied when a reconnection of the electronic device to the specific network is detected by the connection status detecting circuit after detecting the disconnection by the connection status detecting circuit, wherein the notification circuit notifies the unauthorized use only if the time period of disconnection overlaps with at least a part of a specific time period, and wherein the specific time period is a time period that includes company holidays and a time slot of out-of-business hours for a user of the electronic device based on a schedule obtained from a schedule management system for controlling the schedule of the user.