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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yuko Ohta, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Eisuke Saneyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Junichi Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Koumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 9/02 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G07F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 9/026 (2013.01); G06Q 10/20 (2013.01); G07F 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A maintenance monitoring apparatus includes: a maintenance management part that manages, based on a monitoring result of a current or power of a vending machine that provides a beverage by extracting the beverage from a raw material, whether an operation performed on the vending machine is a predetermined maintenance operation and whether the maintenance has been executed at an appropriate time interval and as many times as necessary; and a notification part that notifies that a maintenance has been executed or not.