Information Processing Device, Device Display Processing Method, And Storage Meidum

Abstract

An information processing device has: an acquisition unit to acquire integrated values indicating use states of devices respectively connected on a network; a calculation unit to calculate a reference value of the use states based on the plural integrated values acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit to cause a display unit to display the devices respectively corresponding to the integrated values not exceeding the reference value calculated by the calculation unit.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a view for describing a network system, to which an information processing device indicating the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for describing the configuration of a program which operates on a host computer illustrated in FIG. 1 and searches for image formation devices.

FIG. 3 is a view illustrating an example of a device information table formed from information acquired by an information acquisition unit illustrated in FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a view illustrating an example of a counter information table, which is used for the calculation to be executed by a reference value (threshold) calculation unit illustrated in FIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a data processing procedure carried out in the information processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram for describing the constitution of the information processing device indicating the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a view for describing a memory map of a storage medium for storing various data processing programs which can be read by the information processing device according to the present invention.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire integrated values indicating use states of devices respectively connected on a network;a calculation unit adapted to calculate a reference value of the use states based on the plural integrated values acquired by the acquisition unit; anda control unit adapted to cause a display unit to display the devices respectively corresponding to the integrated values not exceeding the reference value calculated by the calculation unit.

2. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the reference value of the use state is a maximum value of ratios which are acquired by sorting in order the integrated values indicating the use states of the respective devices and successively dividing the lower integrated values by the upper integrated values.

3. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein each device can reset the integrated value.

4. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the integrated value is equivalent to count information counted according to execution of a function of each device.

5. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the integrated value is equivalent to a total operating time which is acquired by integrating operating times of the respective devices.

6. An information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising: a holding unit adapted to hold information of each device acquired by the acquisition unit; anda determination unit adapted to determine whether or not the information of the device corresponding to the integrated value not exceeding the reference value calculated by the calculation unit has been registered in the holding unit,wherein the control unit causes the display unit to display the device which has been determined by the determination unit to be not registered in the holding unit.

7. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the devices includes an input device, an output device and an input/output device.

8. A device display processing method which is adapted to an information processing device, the method comprising steps of: acquiring integrated values indicating use states of devices respectively connected on a network;calculating a reference value of the use states based on the integrated values acquired in the acquiring step; andcausing a display unit to display the devices respectively corresponding to the integrated values not exceeding the reference value calculated in the calculating step.

9. A computer-readable storage medium which stores therein a program to cause a computer to execute following steps of acquiring integrated values indicating use states of devices respectively connected on a network;calculating a reference value of the use states based on the integrated values acquired in the acquiring step; andcausing a display unit to display the devices respectively corresponding to the integrated values not exceeding the reference value calculated in the calculating step.

10. An information processing device comprising: an acquisition unit adapted to search connection states of devices respectively connected on a network, and acquire from the respective devices information indicating use states of the respective devices;a selection unit adapted to evaluate the information of the respective devices acquired by the acquisition unit, and select the devices of which degrees of use are relatively low on the network; anda control unit adapted to cause a display unit to display the devices which were selected from all the devices on the network by the selection unit as the devices of which the degrees of use are relatively low.