US 12,147,939 B2
System, method, and apparatus for management of remote device replenishment, with processing resource conserving automatic suspending—automatic resuming management processing
Kazuki Nakanishi, Tokyo (JP); Hironori Saitoh, Tokyo (JP); and Yusuke Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SORACOM, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SORACOM, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,469.
Application 17/834,469 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/000505, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-024441 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0300895 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 20/00 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
14. A processor resource conserving device management system comprising:
a plurality of devices that connect to a network and are each configured to consume or expend a respective article; and
a device management apparatus that connects to the network and is configured to that manages the plurality of devices,
wherein each of the plurality of devices includes:
a detection part configured to detect a consumption state or an expending state of the article, and
a transmission part configured to transmit, via the network, (i) a device identification information for identifying the device or a user of the device, or both, and (ii) an article information indicating the consumption state or the expending state detected by the detecting part,
wherein the device management apparatus includes:
a storage that stores, in association with each other, the respective device identification information for the devices and, in association with each device's respective device identification information, a provider information identifying a provider of the article consumed or expended by the device and indicating a provider apparatus associated with the provider and connected to the network,
a receiving part configured to receive from the network, transmitted by any device among the plurality of devices, a status information that includes the device identification information for the device and the article information indicating the consumption state or the expending state detected by the detecting part of the device,
a determination part that is configured to perform, responsive to the receiving part receiving the respective status information transmitted by any of the devices, a processing that determines a determination condition for the device and determines, based in part on the consumption state or the expending state indicated by the article information of the respective status information, whether or not the determination condition for the device is satisfied, and
a notification part that is configured to issue and to transmit via the network, on condition that the determination part determines that the determination condition is satisfied, a notification for an action related to ordering the article consumed or expended by the device identified by the device identification information received by the receiving part, wherein the transmitting is to a provider apparatus associated with the provider identified on the basis of the provider information associated with the device identification information received by the receiving part,
wherein the determination part is further configured to suspend, in association with the notification part issuing and transmitting to the provider apparatus the notification for the action to order the article, the processing that determines the determination condition for the device,
wherein the receiving part is further configured to receive, from the network, a replenishment notification transmitted by the device, indicating replenishment or replacement in the device of the article, and
wherein the determination part is further configured to resume, based on the receiving part receiving the replenishment notification, performing the processing that determines the determination condition for the device.