Patent ID: 8102431

Claim:
A system for remote management of image processing devices, the system comprising: a plurality of image processing devices which each detect their own first state information according to a power state transition or an operation state, provide the first state information via a network, and respond to polling; a management server which manages the first state information provided from each image processing device and second state information obtained from a polling response, and manages a history of each image processing device based on the first state information and the second state information, and a plurality of consoles which each output state information in the form of a pop-up window or a warning sound, wherein the management server provides the first state information provided from each image processing device to each console in real time and provides the second state information to each console when the second state information is obtained, and transmits the first state information on a text message and the second state information to a mobile phone number or a designed e-mail address.