Patent ID: 8045865
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining device-specific maintenance rate statistics of a device; calculating a device-specific usage amount that will occur before a next predicted maintenance service, based on said device-specific maintenance rate statistics of said device; comparing said device-specific usage amount that will occur before said next predicted maintenance service to a predetermined usage amount of a predetermined replacement warning threshold of a component within said device; if said device-specific usage amount is higher than said predetermined usage amount, altering replacement warning thresholds for said component by increasing said predetermined warning thresholds to produce modified replacement warning thresholds; if said device-specific usage amount is lower than said predetermined usage amount, altering replacement warning thresholds for said component by decreasing said predetermined warning thresholds to produce modified replacement warning thresholds; storing said modified replacement warning thresholds in a computer-readable medium within said device; and in response to a query presented to said device, outputting, from said device, component replacement warnings using said modified replacement warning thresholds.