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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masahito Hirai, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A first agent of a system comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire device information from a network device; a first transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired device information to a second agent; a first receiving unit configured to receive service information that has excluded some information of the device information from the second agent; a second transmission unit configured to transmit the service information to a device management system. The device management system of the system comprises a second receiving unit configured to receive service information after monitoring has been performed by a comparison between service information transmitted from the second transmission unit to the device management system and service information transmitted from the second agent to the first agent.