US 12,307,137 B2
Remote management server to generate policy for managing image forming apparatuses and control of configuration data of image forming apparatuses
Giwon Seo, Seongnam Si (KR); Junghun Kim, Seongnam Si (KR); Byeongju Hwang, Seongnam Si (KR); Sangmi Kim, Seongnam Si (KR); Minyoung Son, Pangyo (KR); and Hyungjong Kang, Seongnam Si (KR)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/562,443
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/059628
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 20, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/250728, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0067114 (KR), filed on May 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0184491 A1, Jun. 6, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1204 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1285 (2013.01); H04N 1/00344 (2013.01); H04N 1/00973 (2013.01); G06F 3/1254 (2013.01); G06F 3/1255 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A remote management server, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory to store instructions that, based on being executed, cause the processor to:
generate a policy comprising configuration data for image forming devices and a list of a plurality of image forming devices for which the configuration data is to be applied;
configure the plurality of image forming devices with the configuration data according to the policy;
receive, from a service provider device that manages the plurality of image forming devices, a request for a change in configuration data for an image forming device; and
if the image forming device is comprised in the list, process the request according to a preset rule, wherein the preset rule comprises at least one of a rule for rejecting the requested change or a rule for accepting the requested change.