US 11,733,949 B2
Printing system configured to collect print log of printer, management device therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for management device
Jun Yamada, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/456,684.
Application 17/456,684 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/012982, filed on Mar. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-102406 (JP), filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0083296 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1273 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1229 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device having a computer, the recording medium containing computer-executable instructions which cause, when executed by the computer of the information processing device, the information processing device to perform:
collecting a plurality of print logs respectively generated by a plurality of printers, each of the plurality of print logs containing print amount information and first category information, the print amount information indicating an amount of printing, the first category information indicating a category of the print amount information;
identifying a category represented by the first category information by referring to a first database in which the first category information is registered;
extracting the print amount information of which category is indicated by identified first category information from the plurality of print logs collected in the collecting, the identified first category information being the first category information identified in the identifying; and
generating output data based on the print amount information extracted in the extracting, the output data being based on output mode information; and
outputting the output data through an output interface of the information processing device.