Patent ID: 7653841
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a communication unit adapted to communicate with an external apparatus; a determination unit adapted to, upon activation of an image forming apparatus, determine whether or not a history of a failure occurrence detected in the image forming apparatus is stored in a storage unit provided in the image forming apparatus, wherein the storage unit is configured such that stored contents are not deleted by an initialization process executed upon activation of the image forming apparatus; a control unit adapted to control said communication unit to send a normal return notification, which indicates a normal status of the image forming apparatus, to the external apparatus when said determination unit determines that the history of the failure occurrence is stored in the storage unit, and when the image forming apparatus is in the normal status upon activation of the image forming apparatus; and a creation unit adapted to identify an occurring failure when said determination unit determines that the history is stored in the storage unit upon activation of the image forming apparatus, create a markup language description based on a schema embedded with an identifier of an identified type of failure without creating a markup language description based on a schema embedded with an identifier of a type of failure not identified, and create a markup language description based on a schema embedded with an identifier which indicates that no failure occurrence exists when said determination unit determines that the history is stored in the storage unit upon activation of the image forming apparatus and no occurrence of any type of error is detected, wherein the normal return notification is sent to the external apparatus without a request from the external apparatus upon activation of the image forming apparatus, and wherein said control unit controls said communication unit to notify the schema-based markup language description created by said creation unit.