Patent ID: 7773248
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. A device information management system comprising a managed computer which is connected with a device, device information of the device being transmitted to a requestor upon request thereby, the managed computer comprising: a data spooler that adds jobs in a data queue, the jobs in the data queue being transmitted to the device one by one; a storage that stores device information; a job counter that counts a number of jobs in the data queue and determines whether a number of jobs in the data queue is equal to or less than a predetermined value; an information requesting unit that automatically transmits a request command to the device requesting to return the device information when the job counter determines that the number of jobs in the data queue is equal to or less than the predetermined value and that does not transmit the request command to the device when the job counter determines that the number of jobs in the data queue is more than the predetermined value; an information receiving unit that receives the device information returned from the device in response to the request command, the device information returned from the device being stored in the storage; and an information providing unit that provides the device information stored in the storage to the requestor.