| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation apparatus, a resource management method and a program, for allowing to manage the resources of a plurality of image formation apparatuses connected to a network. <P>SOLUTION: This information processor includes a communication data preparing means 501 for preparing communication data which are the object of multi-address communication within a localized domain in a network to which an image formation apparatus is made to belong, including the data list of an image formation apparatus whose power source is turned on, a status judging means 502 for acquiring the data list by receiving the communication data, and for calculating scores by collating a resource evaluation list with a data list, and for judging the status of resource processing in response to the scores and a status commanding means 504 for preparing response data including status command data for commanding the judged status in response to the judgement result of the status judging means, and for returning the response data to the transmission origin of the communication data, wherein the authority of resource management is controlled by using status identification data, and resource management is executed by broadcast communication within a predetermined domain. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
