DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DEVICE SEARCH METHOD

摘要

In a technology for allowing accurate and easy search of a device which satisfies a request of a user from among a large number of devices present at various places, an area ID capable of uniquely identifying a target area of the device is registered in a storage section as information on the device. A device search request from the user includes an area condition for identifying an area in which exertion of an operation by the device is desired by the user as a search condition. A matching process section determines the device to be extracted by comparing the target area identified by the area ID of each device with the area condition included in the device search request.

主权项

1. A device management apparatus managing a plurality of devices present at different places, comprising:
a storage section in which information on each device is registered; an acquisition section which performs matching between a search condition included in the device search request and the information on each device registered in the storage section, thereby extracting each device satisfying the search condition; and a search result presentation section which presents an extraction result of the matching process section to a user, wherein an area ID capable of uniquely identifying a target area of each device is registered in the storage section as the information on the device, the device search request includes an area condition for identifying an area in which exertion of an operation by a device is desired by the user as the search condition, and the matching process section determines each device to be extracted by comparing the target area identified by the area ID of each device with the area condition included in the device search request.