US 12,147,718 B2
System and method for processing consumable delivery
Keisuke Niimoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/352,968.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-113307 (JP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0020070 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1229 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1257 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processing system comprising:
a processing apparatus configured to perform processing by using consumables; and
a server system configured to manage a service related to the consumables,
wherein the processing apparatus includes:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information about a consumption amount of a currently used consumable;
a first updating unit configured to, based on the acquired first information, update second information about a cumulative consumption amount of the consumable used by the processing apparatus stored in a first storage unit; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit the updated second information to the server system, and
wherein the server system includes:
a reception unit configured to receive the second information from the processing apparatus; and
a first determination unit configured to determine whether to provide a service based on the second information received by the reception unit and the second information previously received from the processing apparatus which is stored in a second storage unit,
wherein, in a case where the consumable does not have individual identification information, the transmission unit transmits the second information and identification information for the processing apparatus, and
wherein, in a case where the consumable has the individual identification information, the transmission unit transmits the first information and individual identification information for the consumable.