Patent ID: 8055752
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: an image forming device having direct network access and including an operation panel, the operation panel comprising a plurality of buttons to be selected by a user; a monitoring unit configured to monitor data of selecting of the plurality of buttons of the operation panel by the user, including monitoring each of a sequence, timing, and frequency of selecting of the plurality of buttons, and to generate a log of the monitored data, the log of the monitored data being in a form of a map mapping each of key data in a key portion of the map to respective value data in a corresponding value data portion; a communicating unit configured to receive a command to send information based on the log of the monitored data, and to send the information of the monitored data through the direct network access, and wherein the monitoring unit and communicating unit are self-contained in the image forming device prior to any initial external communication connection by the communication unit, and the monitoring unit is configured to generate the log of the monitored data without any initial external communication connection by the communicating unit.