Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Server for managing status of service agreement with image-recording device
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Application No.: US15185077Application Date: 2016-06-17
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Publication No.: US10374909B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Sunao Kawai
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2015-171982 20150901
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
In a server, a storage is configured to store status of a service agreement for delivering a cartridge with an image-recording device. For the image-recording device, the cartridge is available in a first mode and is unavailable in a second mode. The status includes a first status indicating that the service agreement has been in force and a second status indicating that the service agreement has been canceled. The storage is further configured to store instructions causing the server to receive a cancellation request of the service agreement from an information processor; transmit a switch command to switch an operating mode of the image-recording device from the first to second mode in response to the cancellation request; and change the status stored in the storage to the second status in response to receiving a response indicating that the operating mode has been switched from the first to second mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170063646A1 SERVER FOR MANAGING STATUS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH IMAGE-RECORDING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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