MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202644028654 A) filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - on March 11, 2026, for Replenishment Management System Including Image Forming Apparatus And Server Apparatus.
Inventors include Shuichi Tetsuno; Shunsuke Matsushita; and Mikihiko Hamada.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system including an image forming apparatus and a server apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a storage portion configured to store toner replenished from an attached toner container, a detection unit configured to detect a remaining amount of toner in the storage portion, and a notification unit configured to notify the server apparatus of information about the detected remaining amount of toner. In a case where a new toner container to be used for the image forming apparatus is delivered, the server apparatus determines whether the image forming apparatus has been appropriately replenished with toner based on a toner content of the toner container and the remaining amount of toner notified from the image forming apparatus after the toner container is delivered. [Figure 15]
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