Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kiyotaka Ohara

Makoto Matsuda

Kazuma Aoki

Masafumi Miyazawa

Satoru Yanagi

Masatoshi Kokubo

Masaaki Hibino

Satoshi Watanabe

Koshi Fukazawa

Yasunari Yoshida

Masashi Ueda

Masaaki Hori

Atsushi Kojima

Hideto Matsumoto

Koji Kobayakawa

Hideki Nogawa

Akihiro Furukawa

Shigetaka Yoshida

Masashi Suzuki

Yohei Maekawa

Takao Seki

Norio Tagawa

Takeshi Nagasaki

Takeshi Miyake

Naoki Otsuka

Hirokazu Banno

Satoshi Okimoto

Tatsuhiro Ikedo

Hiroaki Fujino

Hifumi Kato

Shougo Sato

Munehisa Matsuda

Satoshi Suzuki

Tetsuya Okuno

Takashi Fujiwara

Hiroshi Hattori

Ryota Kato

Katsunori Enomoto

Yuki Yada

Hidenori Hisada

Satoshi Matsushita

Yukimasa Yoshida

Tsukasa Nagata

Kyohei Mori

Koki Izumi

An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a storage, and a controller. The controller is configured to: acquire consumable item information including remaining amount information about a remaining amount of a consumable item; output screen information about an input screen to which condition information about an order condition for ordering a new consumable item for replacement is inputted; receive the condition information inputted to the input screen displayed on the basis of the screen information; determine whether or not the order condition represented by the received condition information is met in response to acquisition of the consumable item information; and output order information including information about an order of the new consumable item to a server in response to determination that the order condition represented by the received condition information is met.

Management server for automatic ordering of consumable items

A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.

Communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, and method performed by communication device

One of a plurality of setting screens corresponding to a plurality of printers may be generated based on original data stored in a server. Each of the plurality of setting screens may be for permitting designation of a content of each setting item matching a print condition that a corresponding printer is capable of performing. The server may acquire specific printer identification information for identifying a specific printer from a terminal device, store target data of a print target and supply specific data, which is for representing a specific setting screen corresponding to the specific printer, to the terminal device. The server may acquire setting information indicating a designated content of each setting item designated via the specific setting screen and supply to the specific printer print data according to the target data and the designated content of each setting item indicated by the setting information.

Printer and server

A communication system comprising: a first controller configured to perform: receiving, from a terminal device, target-related information relating to a target peripheral device; transmitting the specific data to the terminal device; receiving, from the terminal device, a first page request; transmitting a first web page data to the terminal device; and executing a specific process for storing a first URL included in the first page request and the target-related information related to the target peripheral device in association with each other in a first memory.

Web server

Information processing apparatus for automatic ordering of consumable items

A relay apparatus includes a processor and a network interface for performing communication with an image processing apparatus and a server apparatus through a network. The processor functions as: a server-request-information receiving unit for receiving server request information transmitted to the relay apparatus by the server apparatus; an establishment request information receiving unit for receiving establishment request information transmitted by the image processing apparatus for requesting establishment of a session between the relay apparatus and the image processing apparatus according to a session establishment type first protocol for enabling server-push for transmitting the server request information to the image processing apparatus; and a server-request-information transmitting unit for transmitting the server request information received by the server-request-information receiving unit to the image processing apparatus by using the session established between the relay apparatus and the image processing apparatus.

Relay apparatus, image processing apparatus and communication system

A server may receive a specific signal including specific information from a terminal device via the Internet, the specific information being obtained by using relative information related to a peripheral device that is used by a user of the terminal device, the peripheral device being different from the terminal device, and the relative information including at least one of identification information for identifying the peripheral device and model information indicating a model of the peripheral device; acquire output data corresponding to the relative information by using the specific information included in the specific signal received from the terminal device, and send the acquired output data to an external device via the Internet.

Server, server system, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for server, and method performed by server

A server may receive a first registration request including a first code from the communication device, the first code having been stored in advance in the communication device, if a second code is inputted into a terminal device, receive a second registration request including the second code from the terminal device, if one of the first and second registration requests is received, register target information including one code included in the one of the first and second registration requests in a memory such that a state of the target information is to be a first state where the server does not perform a target service, and if the other code in other one of the above registration requests matches the one code in the target information, change the state of the target information from the first state to a second state where the server performs the target service.

Non-transitory computer-readable medium for server capable of executing target service related to communication device

A relay server system includes: at least one processor; at least one memory storing computer readable instructions when executed by the at least one processor causing the relay server system to: receive first condition information from a first terminal device, the first condition information representing a condition to transmit data from a communication apparatus to a first terminal device; transmit the first condition information to the communication apparatus when the relay server system receives the first condition information; store the first condition information in a memory when the first condition information is received; receive a specific notification from the communication apparatus after the relay server system transmits the first condition information to the communication apparatus; and transmit the first condition information stored in the memory to the communication apparatus again when the specific notification is received.

Relay server system and communication apparatus

A server may receive a first registration request from a communication device, receive a second registration request from a terminal device, determine, by using a first IP address included in the first registration request and a second IP address in the second registration request, whether the communication device and the terminal device are belonging to a same local area network, if the communication device and the terminal device are belonging to the same local area network, send a sending request including a connection information and a specific IP address of the communication device to the terminal device, the sending request being for causing the terminal device to send the connection information to the communication device with the specific IP address as a destination, establish a connection between the server and the communication device by using the connection information, and perform a target service by using the connection.

Non-transitory computer-readable medium for server

A server receives a correlation instruction from an information processing apparatus when the storage stores first device information uniquely assigned to an image processing apparatus. The correlation instruction is for correlating first device information with a service that a service-providing apparatus provides. The server receives first authentication information from the information processing apparatus. The server stores the first authentication information in association with the first device information in the storage. The server receives, from the image processing apparatus, second device information and first information. The second device information is assigned to the image processing apparatus. The first information is generated in the image processing apparatus for receiving the service. The server identifies the first authentication information in the storage, and transmits second information based on the first information to the service-providing apparatus using the first authentication information.

Server storing authentication information in association with device information in storage

A network device includes a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the network device to perform: storing a first mail address and a second mail address; generating a first email to be addressed to the first mail address and a second email to be addressed to the second mail address, the first email having a first body including a URL, the second email having a second body including the URL; detecting a specific failure occurring in the network device; transmitting the first email to the first mail address and the second email to the second mail address when the specific failure is detected.

Information transmission system

A server apparatus receives unique information, encrypted information and user information from an information processing apparatus via a network interface, the unique information being information which is uniquely assigned to an image processing apparatus, the encrypted information being information into which the unique information is encrypted using a first key, and the user information being information related to a user of the image processing apparatus; decrypts the received encrypted information using a second key corresponding to the first key so as to obtain decrypted information; determines whether the decrypted information and the received unique information represent same information; and stores, in the memory, the received user information and the received unique information in association in a case where it is determined that the decrypted information and the received unique information represent the same information.

Server apparatus and communication system comprising server apparatus

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Nagoya, Japan

Kiyotaka Ohara