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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Vikas Krishna, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothee Bailloeul, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring device usage are described. The system includes an enterprise service bus configured to receive a request to transmit media to a device and route the media to a device and network appliance as a service (NAaaS) server-side application configured to log device usage entries for a second device, determine usage information based on the device usage entries, perform a comparison between a life expectancy associated with the second device and the usage information and responsive to the comparison being within a threshold value, generating a notification.