Image Processing Apparatus Server Maintenance Transmission Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image forming apparatuses face issues during server maintenance periods, where transmission errors occur due to incomplete maintenance of server components, leading to potential failures and unnecessary error handling when attempting to transfer data.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that communicates with servers, receives maintenance schedules, and prohibits data transmission during maintenance periods, storing data until the server is fully operational, thereby preventing transmission errors and ensuring proper processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If information transmission to the server is performed during maintenance period, then data transfer continuity is maintained, but transmission errors occur and reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting maintenance schedules in advance and proactively prohibiting information transmission during maintenance periods. The image processing apparatus acquires maintenance schedule information from the server before the maintenance period begins, and preemptively stops transmission operations to avoid errors, thereby ensuring reliability without causing delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring server maintenance schedules and adjusting transmission operations accordingly. The apparatus receives maintenance schedule information from the server, processes this feedback, and dynamically controls information transmission to prohibit it during maintenance periods while resuming after maintenance completion, thus maintaining high transmission reliability.
2Productivity
If information transmission is continuously performed, then productivity is maintained, but unnecessary error handling increases and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by acquiring maintenance schedule information in advance from the server and proactively prohibiting information transmission before maintenance begins. This prevents transmission errors from occurring in the first place, eliminating the need for complex error handling mechanisms and maintaining simple, efficient data transfer operations.
3Reliability
If information is transmitted during partial maintenance, then data transfer continues, but processing errors occur and reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of maintenance schedules and proactively prohibits information transmission during any maintenance period, including partial maintenance when only certain server portions are under maintenance. This comprehensive approach ensures processing reliability by preventing transmissions to servers with any level of maintenance activity, while the automated detection and control keep operations simple.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus that communicates with at least one server includes: a hardware processor that: receives an input of a schedule of maintenance on the server; transmits information to the server; prohibits transmission processing of information to the server during a maintenance period on the basis of the schedule received by the hardware processor; and a storage that stores information indicating prohibition of the transmission processing by the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor transmits the information stored in the storage to the server after completion of maintenance of the server on the basis of the schedule.