Patent ID: 9600057
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02D

Claim:
1. An information terminal comprising: a reading unit configured to read tag data from an RFID tag of a printing apparatus; a first transmission unit configured to transmit a return command to the printing apparatus based on address information included in the tag data, the return command instructing the printing apparatus to return from a power-saving mode to a normal power mode; a determination unit configured to, after the first transmission unit transmits the return command, determine whether the printing apparatus has succeeded or failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode; a notification unit configured to notify, in the case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode, a user that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit authentication data to the printing apparatus in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has succeeded to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode, wherein the second transmission unit is configured to not transmit the authentication data to the printing apparatus in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode.