Patent ID: 8380835
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A device management system that manages one or a plurality of devices connected thereto through a network, the device management system comprising: a request receiving unit that receives device identifying information for identifying the device and setting information containing one or more set values to be set in the device; an information transmitting unit that transmits a setting request containing the setting information to the device identified by the device identifying information; a result collecting unit that collects a set result, indicating that setting of all the set values is finished, from the device to which the information transmitting unit transmits the setting request; and a result managing unit that stores therein collected set result and the device identifying information in association with each other, wherein the information transmitting unit sequentially transmits the setting request to a device which is identified by the device identifying information and to which the setting request is not yet transmitted, regardless of whether the result collecting unit collects the set result from the device, wherein when the result collecting unit transmits a collection request for the set result to the device and cannot collect the set result because the setting of all the set values by the device is not finished, the result collecting unit receives a predicted time until the setting of all the set values is finished, the predicted time being calculated by the device from a number of the set values contained in the setting information, a time required for a setting process of all the set values, and from a time required for a setting process at a time point of receiving the collection request and being returned to the result collecting unit, and controls a time for trying collection of the set result from the device based on the predicted time.