ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,594, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Network system and method of switching servers" was invented by Hisatoshi Yamazoe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device transmits operation information to a connected server. A second server transmits, to a first server, a request for first connection information for the device to connect to the first server based on reception of a registration request accompanying a firmware update from the device. The first server, after a reception of the request for the first connection information, starts transferring, to the second server, data related to the device, and tr...