US 12,267,670 B2
Network device, method, and recording medium
Tetsu Imai, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,152.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-167356 (JP), filed on Oct. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0109984 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/03 (2021.01); H04L 41/22 (2022.01); H04L 41/28 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 12/03 (2021.01) [H04L 41/22 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network device comprising:
a first network interface corresponding to mobile communication;
a second network interface corresponding to communication different from the mobile communication;
at least one memory storing instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network device to:
output information indicating occurrence of a specific event in the network device to a predetermined display region;
check approval or disapproval of transmission of information regarding the specific event to a management server in accordance with selection of the predetermined display region;
enable mobile communication if transmission of the information regarding the specific event to the management server is approved;
transmit, using the first network interface, the information regarding the specific event to the management server through the enabled mobile communication; and
disable the enabled mobile communication but not the communication by the second network interface, based on a response received from the management server after the information regarding the specific event is transmitted to the management server through the enabled mobile communication,
wherein the mobile communication enables communication between the network device and the management server via a WAN, and
wherein, if the mobile communication is not enabled, the network device does not connect to the WAN.