Patent ID: 9122433
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for managing devices accessible through a network, the system including: one or more device management apparatuses configured to collect device data from a plurality of printing devices and manage the printing devices; a device database registering the device data collected by the device management apparatuses from the plurality of printing devices; and a terminal apparatus including a click-to-print unit configured to include: wherein in response to the print job detecting part detecting the print job, the mode determination part determines whether the user has specified a silent-mode printer and (a) in response to the mode determination part determining that the user has specified a silent-mode printer, the mode determination part determines that the print job is to be processed in the silent mode, and the print job is transmitted to the silent-mode printer, and (b) in response to the mode determination part determining that the user has not specified a silent-mode printer,