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| 20080240068 | Wireless Network System, And Wireless Device Included In The System - A wireless network system having an access point, and wireless devices capable of wireless communication with the access point, each wireless device being capable of wireless communication with the other wireless device in an ad hoc mode without via the access point, wherein the access point includes a registrar setup portion to set up any of the wireless devices as a registrar which permits wireless communication between each wireless device and the access point, and each wireless device includes: a memory portion for storing identifiers of the wireless devices; a data-supply requesting portion operable in the ad hoc mode to transmit to the other wireless device a data-supply request packet requesting the other wireless device to transmit the identifier of the other wireless device stored in its memory portion; a request replying portion operated in response to the data-supply request packet to transmit to the other wireless device a data-supply-request reply packet including an own identifier; a reply-data receiving portion operable to receive the data-supply-request reply packet; an identifier retrieving portion operable to retrieve the identifier from the received data-supply-request reply packet, and store the retrieved identifier in its memory portion; and a registrar registering portion operable after the wireless device is set up as the registrar by the registrar setup portion ( | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090172143 | Information-Processing Apparatus and Program Thereof - An information-processing apparatus which is capable of transmitting device identifiers of devices connected with LANs to terminals without using a broadcast command is provided. A server is connected with a World Area Network. A managing terminal and printers are connected with a LAN. The server receives a device identifier of the printer connected with any one of the LANs. The server receives an inquiry for a device identifier from a terminal connected with any one of the LANs. The server stores appended information, which is appended to the device identifier while the device identifier is transferred to the server, in a manner that the appended information is associated with the device identifier. The server transmits to the terminal the device identifier whose appended information as stored in a storage coincides with the appended information that is appended to the inquiry while the inquiry is transferred to the server. The managing terminal can obtain the device identifier of the printer connected with the same LAN as the managing terminal itself by transmitting the inquiry to the server. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090248849 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A device management system, a device, and a management apparatus are provided. The device management system includes a plurality of devices that are coupled to a network; and a management apparatus that is coupled to the network. The devices include a first device and a second device. The first device stores icon image data indicating the device and including specified information embedded therein as digital watermark information. The second device stores icon image data indicating the device but not including specified information. The management apparatus includes a response information receiving unit; a response detecting unit that detects whether the specified information is embedded as the digital watermark information in the icon image data; and a device specifying unit that specifies a device as a first device or a second device. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100325316 | ADMINISTRATION DEVICE - An administration device may be connected in a communicable manner with a plurality of devices including a first device and a second device. The administration device may comprise an information acquisition unit configured to execute an information acquisition process for sequentially acquiring information from the plurality of devices by sequentially making a request for the information to the plurality of devices. The information acquisition unit may make a request for status information to the first device, (a) if the status information of the first device does not indicate, for example, a sleeping status or a process executing status, make a request for target information other than the status information to the first device, and make a request for the status information to the second device after having made the request for the target information to the first device, (b) if the status information of the first device indicates, for example, the sleeping status or the process executing status, make the request for the status information to the second device without making the request for the target information to the first device. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100328696 | ADMINISTRATION DEVICE - An administration device may comprise a first acquisition unit and a second acquisition unit. The first acquisition unit may sequentially acquire an M1 type of object information from the first device by sequentially making requests to the first device for N1 types of object information. The M1 type of object information is a part of the N1 types of object information. The second acquisition unit may newly acquire the M1 type of object information from the first device by making a request to the first device for the M1 type of object information, without sequentially making requests to the first device for the N1 types of object information. In a case where the second device is a device equivalent to the first device, the second acquisition unit may acquire the M1 type of object information from the second device by making a request to the second device for the M1 type of object information, without sequentially making requests to the second device for the N1 types of object information. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110157627 | PRINTER - A printer may supply edit web page data to an external device for a web browser to display an edit web page. The edit web page may include a first area for displaying an object corresponding to object data to be edited. The printer may receive operation information corresponding to a first type of operation from the web browser. The printer may edit the object data in response to the operation information. The printer may send update information for updating a displaying content within the edit web page to the web browser. The printer may receive a first type of print instruction from the web browser. The printer may perform a print process using the object data stored in the storing unit upon receiving the first type of print instruction. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158225 | TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A telephone apparatus that can be connected to both an IP network and a public switched telephone network, the telephone apparatus includes: a microphone unit, a speaker unit, an operation unit that is operated by a user and a call control unit. The call control unit includes a call processing unit and a relay unit. The relay unit includes a call request transmission section; a conversion section; an analog voice data transmission section; and a digital voice data transmission section. Another telephone apparatus that can be connected to the IP network can perform a voice data communication with a public line telephone apparatus connected to the public switched telephone network, via the above-described telephone apparatus. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110238800 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORING MEDIUM - A communication apparatus connected with a device via a network, the communication apparatus comprising: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a first identification information for identifying the device, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a current IP address set to the device, a communication unit configured to communicate with the device by using the current IP address, a generating unit configured to generate a new IP address, and a setting unit that broadcasts a setting packet to the network when a communication with the device by using the current IP address fails, wherein the setting packet contains the first identification information and the new IP address, and when a second identification information for identifying a receiving device that receives the setting packet is identical to the first identification information, the setting packet instructs the receiving device to newly set the new IP address to the receiving device. | 09-29-2011 |
