System and method to evaluate a service contract covering a monitored device by integrating device, user, and account information

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APP PUB NO 20060031390A1
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10913364

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A system and method for evaluating a service contract for managing and servicing devices communicatively coupled to a network, including: storing business context information, including terms of the service contract for managing and servicing a device; storing contract expenditure information; receiving, from an authorized user, a request for information related to profitability of the service contract over a predetermined period of time; accessing the business context information to retrieve the terms of the service contract and an identification for each device; determining, based on each respective identification, the cost of performing the service contract over the predetermined period of time for the device covered by the service contract; creating a contract profitability report describing profitability of the service contract over the predetermined period of time; and providing, to the authorized user, the contract profitability report and the terms of the service contract for the device covered by the service contract.

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RICOH COMPANY LTDTOKYO 143-8555
RICOH CORPORATION3001 ORCHARD PARKWAY SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hosoe, Yasuhiko Norcross, GA 7 45
Meyer, Christopher Snellville, GA 51 581
Mimura, Makoto Duluth, GA 5 32
Motoyama, Tetsuro Cupertino, CA 304 9990
Rhodes, Bob Lawrenceville, GA 6 35

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