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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Noriaki Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriaki Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an information processing apparatus, software is installed to build a system providing a predetermined function. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate system identification information for identifying the system built by installing the software, the system identification information being generated from authentication information obtained by performing license authentication on the software; and a registering unit configured to send the system identification information generated by the generating unit to a management device that manages a plurality of the systems via a predetermined data transmission line, to register the system identification information in the management device as management information.