US 12,321,649 B2
Apparatus, system, mobile terminal, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for managing consumables used in image forming apparatus
Masahiko Harada, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/714,151.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-178327 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0138618 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/121 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1229 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); H04N 1/00068 (2013.01); H04N 1/00079 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
in a case where a level of consumption of a consumable in the information processing apparatus meets a predetermined condition, provide a notification indicating that the level of consumption of the consumable meets the predetermined condition; and
in a case where the information processing apparatus is connected to a mobile terminal via short-range wireless communication in a state in which the notification is being provided, notify the mobile terminal that the level of consumption of the consumable meets the predetermined condition and output consumable information, which indicates a prompt order for the consumable, to the mobile terminal.