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20120237243 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus is connected to a print control apparatus for generating image data. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate gloss control plate data for specifying a type of a surface effect imparted to a recording medium and a region in the recording medium to which the surface effect is imparted; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the gloss control plate data to the print control apparatus. | 09-20-2012 |
20130003098 | PRINTER DRIVER - In a printer driver, combinations of standard print conditions and standard render data are saved as standard patterns, and combinations of standard print conditions and standard render data used for exceptional settings are saved as print application patterns. The print application patterns and the standard patterns are associated with each other. When printing document data, print condition data and render data are spooled by each page, the standard print conditions and the standard render data are compared, and a most similar standard pattern is detected. The print application pattern corresponding to the detected standard pattern is referred to, and print conditions are generated by combining standard print conditions and print conditions of the document data for each page. From the render data of the document data or from the standard render data, print data that can be processed by the printer is generated. | 01-03-2013 |
20140270879 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus is connected to a print control apparatus for generating image data. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate gloss control plate data for specifying a type of a surface effect imparted to a recording medium and a region in the recording medium to which the surface effect is imparted; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the gloss control plate data to the print control apparatus. | 09-18-2014 |
20150261167 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus is connected to a print control apparatus for generating image data. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate gloss control plate data for specifying a type of a surface effect imparted to a recording medium and a region in the recording medium to which the surface effect is imparted; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the gloss control plate data to the print control apparatus. | 09-17-2015 |
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20090300182 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING EVENT CONTROL PROGRAM, EVENT CONTROL METHOD, AND EVENT CONTROLLER - An event controller is caused to function as a receiving unit, a request unit, and a transfer unit. The receiving unit receives an event notification request containing designation information designating a client. The request unit requests notification of one of a plurality of servers as an assignment destination server, based on the designation information, the one providing a service to the client identified by the designation information. The transfer unit transfers the event notification request to the assignment destination server notified in response to the request by the request unit. | 12-03-2009 |
20100088417 | STORAGE MEDIUM, UNIQUENESS ASSURANCE REALIZING METHOD, SESSION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND UNIQUENESS ASSURANCE INFORMATION SETTING MANAGEMENT DEVICE - One system distributes a request for providing a service using a first communication protocol, from a terminal device to a server selected from among a plurality of servers by a server load balancer in response to the request. A corresponding relation between identification information for identifying a session generated in a distributed server and the server that has generated the session corresponding to the identification information is set in the server load balancer by the service of a second communication protocol as uniqueness assurance information for uniqueness assurance. Thus, when the provision of a service is requested using a second communication protocol by the terminal device, the server load balancer refers to the set uniqueness assurance information and selects the server for providing the service from among the plurality of servers. | 04-08-2010 |
20100115587 | Authentication system and terminal authentication apparatus - After checking a receiving message appearing on an output device, a network administrator inputs an authentication result to a setting terminal using an input device, such as a keyboard. Upon receiving the authentication result from the network administrator, the setting terminal registers, if the received authentication result is permission to access a network device, a MAC address of a traveling employee's terminal that is the sender of the authentication request in the network device as an access permitted terminal. After the registering in the network device is completed, the setting terminal sends the authentication result indicative of permission to access the network device to the employee's terminal, i.e., the sender of the authentication request. | 05-06-2010 |
20100241715 | METHOD OF REALIZING UNIQUENESS ASSURANCE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MESSAGE DESTINATION - A method of realizing uniqueness assurance includes: selecting a server to which a first message is to be transferred from multiple servers and transferring the first message to the selected server when the first message is received from a terminal apparatus by a load sharing apparatus; storing a second message that should be transferred to the same server as that of the first server when the second message is received from the terminal apparatus by the load sharing apparatus after the first message is transferred; generating uniqueness assurance information corresponding to the communication protocols corresponding to a session generated by the server to which the first message is transferred, the uniqueness assurance information indicating the correspondence between the session and the message corresponding to the session; and transferring the second message in accordance with the generated uniqueness assurance information if the stored second message exits. | 09-23-2010 |
20110035436 | RELAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING MESSAGE - A relay apparatus for transferring message data received from a client to one of a plurality of servers includes a status management data storage, a transfer rule handling section, and an acknowledgment transmitting section. The status management data storage holds data of an acknowledgment necessity table. The acknowledgment necessity table includes first identification information of a first apparatus to which the relay apparatus acknowledges when the relay apparatus has received first transfer rule notification data from the first apparatus. The transfer rule handling section determines whether the acknowledgment necessity table includes the first identification information identical to second identification information of a second apparatus upon receiving second transfer rule notification data from the second apparatus. The acknowledgment transmitting section transmits acknowledgment data to the second apparatus when the acknowledgment necessity table includes the first identification information identical to the second identification information. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040892 | LOAD BALANCING APPARATUS AND LOAD BALANCING METHOD - A load balancing apparatus stores a transfer rule in which a path control identifier for identifying a path for a message sent from a client device is associated with relay device information for specifying a relay device that creates the path control identifier. When receiving a message from the client device, the load balancing apparatus determines whether the message contains the path control identifier. If the load balancing apparatus determines that the path control identifier is contained, the load balancing apparatus specifies, from the transfer rule, relay device information with which the path control identifier is associated and then sends the message to a relay device that is specified by the specified relay device information. In contrast, if the load balancing apparatus determines that the path control identifier is not contained, the load balancing apparatus sends the message to the relay device specified in accordance with a predetermined condition. | 02-17-2011 |
20110185039 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE - An access control device causes an information processing device to execute access control between a client device and two or more server devices. The device receives an open request for causing the information processing device to open the port of a port number that is a port number to be transmitted to the client device according to completion of one process of a plurality of processes to be executed on a first server device which is one of the two or more server devices. The device generates information for data transfer for opening the port of the port number based on information for identifying the first server device which transmitted the open request, which is included in the received open request. The device transmits the generated information for data transfer to the information processing device. | 07-28-2011 |
20110238975 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ROUTE CONTROL DEVICE, AND DATA RELAY METHOD - A server notifies a route control device of a session ID indicating a session and generated for a user of a terminal device together with its own IP address. The terminal device notifies a route control device of data for a connection to a relay device together with a session ID. The route control device associates the data for the connection with the IP address of the server using the session ID, and sets the associated combination as relay setting information in the relay device. Thus, the relay device refers to the relay setting information using data for a connection extracted from a message when the message is received from the terminal device, and determines a destination of the message. | 09-29-2011 |
20110282926 | RELAY APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A RELAY PROGRAM, AND A RELAY METHOD - A relay apparatus generates partial message data by assembling a package group, the packet group including, out of a plurality of packets received and related to one message, a head packet related to the one message up to a packet including, as a payload, user identification information in a header of the one message. The relay apparatus extracts the user identification information from the partial message data and identifying a user identifier from the user identification information. The relay apparatus performs a specific packet process, in accordance with the identified user identifier, on the packet group of the one message, and a packet not assembled by a packet assembling unit out of the plurality of packets. | 11-17-2011 |
20120011281 | CONTENT CONVERSION SYSTEM AND CONTENT CONVERSION SERVER - A conversion server stores therein a combination of client information indicating the type of a client terminal and content information that is requested to be sent from the client terminal. Furthermore, the conversion server stores therein server information indicating a conversion server responsible for the format of content in such a manner that the server information is associated with the combination of the client information and the content information. If the conversion server receives, from the client terminal, a send request for content, the conversion server distinguishes between the client information on the client terminal and the content information on the content requested to be sent. The conversion server notifies a conversion server indicated by the server information associated with the combination of the distinguished client information and the distinguished content information of the distinguished client information and the distinguished content information. | 01-12-2012 |
20120034906 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING RELAY CONTROL PROGRAM, RELAY SERVER DEVICE, AND RELAY CONTROL METHOD - A relay server receives from a mobile terminal a delivery request to a delivery server device that provides an application to the mobile terminal. The relay server obtains position information of the mobile terminal from a representative device connected to a position managing server that holds the position information of the mobile terminal. The relay server transmits the position information of the mobile terminal obtained from the representative device to a relay device that relays a communication to inquire about the position information of the mobile terminal to the representative device. The relay server updates the position information obtained from the representative device with the position information received from the relay device when the position information of the mobile terminal is received from the relay device. The relay server transfers the received delivery request to the delivery server device identified based on the updated position information. | 02-09-2012 |
20120254389 | RELAY DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RELAY PROGRAM, AND RELAY METHOD - A relay device, when receiving response information for initial request information, extracts, from the received response information, first session identification information for identifying a session established between an information processing terminal having transmitted the request information and an information processing device having received the request information, transmits the response information to the information processing terminal, transmits the response information to the information processing terminal, transmits session supporting address information to another relay device, extracts second session identification information from request information for the second time or later received from the information processing terminal, and queries the relay device to which the session supporting address information has already been transmitted, for the session supporting address information corresponding to the extracted second session identification information. | 10-04-2012 |
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20130227049 | DISTRIBUTED CACHE SYSTEM - A disclosed system includes a first computer that stores data, a display apparatus that is capable of reading a user identifier, a second computer, and plural third computers. The second computer includes a data storage unit storing first correlation data to correlate a user identifier with at least one third computer, and a controller that refers to the first correlation data upon detecting an event data, identifies a third computer correlated with a first user identifier included in the event data, and transmits the first user identifier to the identified third computer. Each third computer includes a receiver that receives the first user identifier, a storing unit that obtains from the first computer, and stores data identified based on the received first user identifier, and a controller to transmit data corresponding to a second user identifier, which was received from the display apparatus, based on the second user identifier. | 08-29-2013 |
20130332502 | METHOD OF CONTENT DELIVERY, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method of content delivery executed by a computer is provided. The computer specifies an identifier of a content associated with an user identifier, an identifier of a device at a delivery destination of the content, and time until data of the content is delivered to the device at the delivery destination, when event data including the user identifier read by a sensor is received. The computer calculates, from the specified time, a clock time to start content sending to the device at the delivery destination of the content or a clock time to start data sending to a device that carries out the content sending, and stores these data, and sends the stored data to the device of the delivery destination, at a clock time that is stored in the data storage unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20140198792 | RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN A TRANSFER PROGRAM, TRANSFER APPARATUS, AND TRANSFER METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes transferring communication data, transmitted from a first apparatus, which includes data and a first attribute regarding the data, to a second apparatus, receiving a notification that includes a second attribute regarding the data and a transfer destination of the communication data inclusive of the second attribute, transferring the communication data inclusive of the second attribute to a third apparatus of the transfer destination included in the notification; and transferring the notification to other transfer apparatus. | 07-17-2014 |
20140365501 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER - A content distribution method executed by a computer includes referring to a result of comparing information identifying content data stored in a storage unit with information identifying content data stored in one or more other storage units included in one or more other computers; and collecting representative image data of content data not stored in the storage unit from the one or more other storage units included in the one or more other computers storing the content data not stored in the storage unit, starting from one of the one or more other computers having a greatest number of pieces of the content data. | 12-11-2014 |
20150256571 | CONTENT ACQUISITION DEVICE AND METHOD - A content acquisition device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: acquiring group data to identify a group that a user belongs to; and based on a period of time needed to acquire content from each of a first data processing device that holds content shared by the group indicated by the group data, and a second data processing device that is in the process of acquiring the content from the first data processing device, selecting a data processing device from which to acquire the content. | 09-10-2015 |
20160050288 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD, CONTENT TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content transmission method including: searching, when a first information processing device receives a transmission request for a first content from a second information processing device, for a third information processing device within information processing devices, at least one of the information processing devices having a connection with the second information processing device and currently transmitting a second content to the second information processing device; and transmitting to the third information processing device, by the first information processing device, the first content and an instruction to transmit the transmitted first content from the third information processing device to the second information processing device in accordance with the transmission request. | 02-18-2016 |
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20110187669 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTING METHOD THEREOF - A protrusion for a touch sensor protruding toward the first substrate, an opposite electrode covering the protrusion for a touch sensor and the color filter layer, and a spacer defining the thickness of the liquid crystal layer are formed on a second substrate, and a touch electrode is formed on the first substrate and placed opposite the protrusion for a touch sensor through the opposite electrode therebetween. Furthermore, the spacer and the protrusion for a touch sensor are respectively formed in a single unit with the same material and with the same color as respective ones of the color layers of the color filter layer. | 08-04-2011 |
20110221697 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A light shielding film includes a protrusion for a touch sensor, which is formed to protrude further than a color filter layer toward the side of a first substrate, and a spacer portion, which is formed to protrude further than the protrusion for a touch sensor toward the side of a first substrate and defines the thickness of a liquid crystal layer. A counter electrode, which covers the protrusion for a touch sensor and the color filter layer, is formed on a second substrate. | 09-15-2011 |
20110317115 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A liquid crystal display device is configured such that the liquid crystal display device detects a pressed position by having contact regions, which are a part of the first substrate and a part of the second substrate, in contact with each other when the first substrate or the second substrate is bent by being pressed and in each of the contact region of the first substrate and the second substrate, a conductive film that repels an alignment film before hardening is arranged such that the conductive film is exposed from the hardened alignment film. | 12-29-2011 |
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20080284884 | IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P | 11-20-2008 |
20110205415 | IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P | 08-25-2011 |
20110292262 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device having a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in a matrix form, and sweeping out unnecessary charges by setting a predetermined number, two or more, of adjacent rows or a predetermined number, two or more, of adjacent columns, in the pixel array section, to a single group, and by applying a shutter pulse in units of groups before storing signal charges, and sequentially reading the signal charges in the units of groups. In the solid-state imaging device, a pre-shutter pulse is applied to pixels belonging to at least a single row or a single column within a succeeding group and adjacent to a preceding group, prior to the shutter pulse, before a reading timing for the preceding group, to sweep out unnecessary charges stored in the pixels. | 12-01-2011 |
20140204254 | IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P | 07-24-2014 |