Patent ID: 9007631
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A device management apparatus configured to monitor device status of, and collect device settings information from, a plurality of devices, said device management apparatus comprising: a communication part that communicates with any selected device amongst the plurality of devices; a monitoring engine part that determines device make and other device characteristics of the selected device based on object identifier information collected from the selected device, and determines based on one or more of the device make and other device characteristics of the selected device whether the selected device is in a particular subset of the plurality of devices that has a particular set of device settings items or whether the selected device is in another subset of the plurality of devices that has another set of device settings items that are different from said particular set of device settings items; and a user interface part that causes a specified user interface to be provided to a device setting terminal, wherein in a case that the monitoring engine part determines based on said one or more of the device make and other device characteristics that the selected device is in the particular subset of the plurality of devices, the monitoring engine part collects, from the selected device, settings information for the particular set of device settings items, and said user interface part causes a first user interface to be provided to the device setting terminal, said first user interface displaying the settings information collected, from the selected device, for the particular set of device settings items corresponding to the particular subset of the plurality of devices, and in a case that the monitoring engine part determines based on said one or more of the device make and other device characteristics that the selected device is in said another subset of the plurality of devices, the monitoring engine part collects settings information for said another set of device settings items, from the selected device, and said user interface part causes a second user interface to be provided to the device setting terminal, said second user interface displaying the collected settings information for said another set of device settings items corresponding to said another subset of the plurality of devices.