Patent ID: 7925933
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A multifunctional terminal device comprising: a sensing unit that senses a malfunction; a determining unit that determines a type of the malfunction when a malfunction has occurred; a selecting unit that selects according to the type of the malfunction a recovery operation out of a plurality of recovery operations and a notification operation out of a plurality of notification operations; a recovering unit that performs the recovery operation; a storing unit that stores recovery management information representative of a recovery operation to be performed for the sensed malfunction and stores recovery-log data representative of a history of recovery operations performed based on the recovery management information; and a notifying unit that performs the notification operation to notify occurrence of the malfunction, wherein when, after the sensing unit senses a first malfunction and the recovering unit performs the recovery operation corresponding to the first malfunction, the sensing unit senses a same malfunction that is identical to the type of the first malfunction stored as the recovery-log data, the recovering unit does not perform the recovery operation and the notifying unit performs the notification operation corresponding to the same malfunction.