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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Toshio Nakano, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Toshio Nakano, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An equipment management device manages one or more pieces of equipment which are connected to the equipment management device via a network. The equipment management device includes a determining unit which determines whether a non-authenticated software item exists in each of the one or more pieces of equipment, and a license management unit which performs license management of one or more software items installed in each of the one or more pieces of equipment, based on a result of the determination by the determining unit.