Fujitsu Corporation

Fsas Technologies Inc.

Naoyuki Yoshimi

Kota Iriguchi

Kenji Nitta

Takayuki Nakamura

Anjie Zhang

Kazuhiro Nakano

Kenichi Takayanagi

Toshihiro Kai

Kenji Itoh

Mai Izawa

A storing unit stores therein contract information indicating, with respect to each of a plurality of devices rented to a user and included in a system, an expiration time point at which a rental contract of each of the plurality of devices expires and communication channel information indicating inter-device communication channels between the plurality of devices. A processing unit determines, based on the contract information and the communication channel information, a second device to experience effect of expiration of the rental contract of a first device at a first time point amongst the plurality of devices, and outputs information indicating the effect on the second device.

Operation information management method and information processing

A management apparatus includes a memory configured to store, for each setting place, identification information for identifying an attribute of a device and device information for associating the identification information, a model of the device, and firmware version information of the device; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: specify, for each setting place, firmware version information of a same model among devices included in the device information associated with one kind of the identification information based on the identification information and the device information stored in the memory, and execute update processing of firmware of the device of the same model based on the specified firmware version information.

Management apparatus, management method, and management system

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Kawasaki, Japan

Naoyuki Yoshimi