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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Toshihiko Uno, Kyoto, JP;
Masatomo Ishikura, Kyoto, JP;
Horiba, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A method for providing twenty-four hour maintenance of a measuring instrument by outputting the data from the measuring instrument to a measuring computer, and if maintenance is needed, transmitting the data to a maintenance computer at one of a plurality of servicing centers, judging whether or not that servicing center is capable of performing the maintenance, and if it is not capable of performing the maintenance, selecting another servicing center that is capable of performing the maintenance and transmitting the measuring instrument's data to one of the maintenance computers at that servicing center, which will then perform the maintenance to the measuring instrument.