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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Takehisa Kitakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takehisa Kitakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device management system for managing a plurality of image forming apparatuses each having a power save mode in which electric power is supplied from a battery includes: a process accepting unit configured to accept a process request issued to a first image forming apparatus of the image forming apparatuses; a mode determining unit configured to determine whether the first image forming apparatus is in the power save mode; a search unit configured to, when the first image forming apparatus is determined to be in the power save mode, search the image forming apparatuses for a second image forming apparatus that is not in the power save mode; and a request transfer unit configured to transfer a command to perform a process according to the process request to the second image forming apparatus.