Patent ID: 8935378
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A device management system that manages one or more devices connected thereto through a network, the device management system comprising: a receiving unit that receives device identifying information for identifying a managed device, amongst the one or more devices, and device setting information containing one or more set values to be set in the managed device; a transmitting unit that transmits the device identifying information and the device setting information to the managed device; and a collecting unit that controls, when the device setting information has been transmitted to the managed device and setting of the set values in the managed device based on the device setting information transmitted to the managed device has not been completed, a time to collect, from the managed device, a setting result of an applying process applied to the managed device based on the device setting information transmitted to the managed device to set the set values in the managed device, based on a predicted time to complete the setting of the set values based on the device setting information transmitted to the managed device.