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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
Ryoh Aruga, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Saitoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric apparatus includes an electric device that performs operation using electric power being supplied, a receiver that receives one or more control commands for controlling the electric device from a server through a network, a memory that stores control command history information including a content of one or more control commands that are previously received from the server, and circuitry that determines whether or not a control command is received from the server for a predetermined period of time, generates, if the control command is not received from the server for a predetermined period of time, other control command using the content stored in the control command history information, and controls, if the control command is not received from the server for the predetermined period of time, the electric device based on the other control command being generated.