US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Management system, network device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,051, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Management system, network device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Junji Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device acquires a service setting from a management server based on a service contract, counts and manages a communication volume for each communication type based on the service setting, and controls communication for each function based on the service setting and the communication volume."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/151,687.

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