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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2020
Satoru Tao, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoru Tao, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device management system includes a device management apparatus; and a plurality of devices connectable to the device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive a notice of failure risk condition from the plurality of devices; in response to receiving a notice indicating that a first condition of the failure risk condition is satisfied from a first device, transmit to the first device a change request for changing the failure risk condition from the first condition to a second condition; identify, based on similarity between information stored for the first device and the plurality of devices other than the first device, a second device that is to be monitored using the same monitoring condition used for the first device; and transmit, to the second device, the change request for changing the failure risk condition from the first condition to the second condition.