Device List Content Distribution for Multi-Printer Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems, such as Patent Literature PTL1, do not facilitate easy management of language data across multiple printers connected to a download destination, requiring administrators to individually incorporate programs for each printer, leading to cumbersome tasks.
Innovation Solution
An application program that manages content data across multiple devices by determining connections, downloading and transmitting data from a storage server based on a device list, allowing centralized management and automatic updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the download destination printer itself determines whether to download language data and uses it, then the printer can independently manage its own language data, but the administrator of the server cannot easily manage data used by other printers connected to the printer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary management system that acts as a mediator between the storage server and multiple printers. This intermediary receives download requests, determines which printers need which language data based on connection relationships, and coordinates the distribution. This resolves the contradiction by enabling centralized server management while maintaining printer independence through the mediating coordination layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal download management system that can serve multiple printers with different connection relationships (directly connected, indirectly connected, different connection types). The system universally handles various printer scenarios through a single coordinated approach, enabling the administrator to manage language data for all printers through one system rather than individual configurations.
2Ease of operation
If the administrator wishes to manage language data for a plurality of printers, then centralized management is achieved, but the administrator needs to incorporate a program for downloading language data into all the printers, requiring troublesome tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the download management functionality from individual printers and consolidates it into a separate coordination system. Instead of requiring the download program to be incorporated into each printer, the system extracts this function to a central coordinator that manages downloads for all printers, eliminating the time-consuming task of individual program installations while maintaining centralized control.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediary management system serves as a mediator that eliminates the need to incorporate download programs into each printer. It coordinates between the storage server and multiple printers, handling the download logistics centrally. This resolves the contradiction by enabling centralized management without the troublesome task of individual program incorporation through mediating coordination.
3Productivity
If content data is downloaded and used only by the download destination printer, then simple point-to-point transmission is sufficient, but other printers connected to the printer cannot utilize the downloaded language data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple printers into a single coordinated system where language data downloaded by one printer can be utilized by others. It combines the resources and capabilities of multiple printers under unified management, enabling shared access to language data. This resolves the contradiction by improving utilization efficiency through merging while managing complexity through centralized coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data distribution system that enables language data to serve multiple printers simultaneously regardless of their connection relationships. The system provides multi-functional capability to distribute data universally to all connected printers, improving utilization efficiency while managing complexity through a single coordinated approach.
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AI summary
A technique, which easily manages content data to be used by a plurality of devices connected to an information processing device, is provided. A DL application 41 controls a CPU 11 of a PC 3 to download a device list 22 from a storage server 2. The device list 22 includes a plurality of pieces of information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The DL application 41 controls the CPU 11 to determine for each management target device included in the device list whether or not the device is connected to the information processing device via a NW-IF 16 or a USB-IF 17, to download, for each device determined to be connected, content data (file or data stored in the transmission folder 23, for example) corresponding to the device, and to transmit, to the target management device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device determined to be connected in the connection determination process, the downloaded content data corresponding to the device.