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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2005
Jun-ichiroh Fujimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ariyoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinaga Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroo Kitagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
LU Bin, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Muroi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Sakayori, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Sakuramata, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Takami, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun-Ichiroh Fujimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ariyoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinaga Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroo Kitagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Lu Bin, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Muroi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Sakayori, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Sakuramata, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Takami, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An office information system having a device which provides a user with an operational message of the system is disclosed. In an embodiment of the office information system, a path record storage device stores a plurality of path records related to components of the system, each path record indicating a locating path needed to reach a location of a specific one of the components in the system when a failure related to the specific one of the components occurs. A failure location detecting device detects a location of a component in the system when a failure related to the component occurs. A reached location determining device reads a path record from the path record storage device when the location of the failure is detected, and determines a currently reached location in the system based on the path indicated by the path record. A message device generates, when the reached location is determined, an operational message needed for recovering the failure at a subsequent location in the path following the reached location.