Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090164671 | MACRO TRANSMISSION SERVER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A macro transmission server apparatus stores a combination of functions of a multifunction peripheral and an order of processing of the functions as a macro. The macro transmission server apparatus manages a plurality of such macros and determines a portion of the plurality of such macros to be transmitted to a multifunction peripheral on a network as a transmission set. The macro transmission server apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a change in function of the multifunction peripheral, a transmission set updating unit configured to change the transmission set according to the change detected by the change detection unit such that at least one of the macros that is executable by the multifunction peripheral is included in the transmission set, a macro storage unit configured to store the transmission set and the plurality of such macros, and a macro transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission set to the multifunction peripheral. | 06-25-2009 |
20090199214 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus capable of previously checking a setting mistake when a macro button is generated and preventing a macro using a reserved word from being inappropriately executed. A macro acquisition unit obtains the macro. A user information acquisition unit obtains user information associated with a user of the image processing apparatus. A replacing unit, when the macro obtained by the macro acquisition unit is a macro including a reserved word that is to be replaced with a portion of the user information, replaces the reserved word with the portion of the user information obtained by the user information acquisition unit. A check unit checks whether the macro replaced by the replacing unit can be normally executed. A notification unit notifies a check result of the check unit to a previously defined user. | 08-06-2009 |
20100178066 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The invention provides a mechanism which allows a common device driver to obtain identification information of a USB device desired by an application that controls a USB device via a common device driver. Furthermore, the invention includes two types of common device drivers to be registered in an OS to have different priorities, and provides a common interface that does not allow the application to recognize their difference. | 07-15-2010 |
20100212023 | SHORTCUT MANAGEMENT UNIT AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A shortcut management device capable of improving user-friendliness of a portal application. The shortcut management device is capable of executing shortcuts which use functions of an electronic apparatus, and manages at least part of the functions used by the shortcuts. A storage unit registers shortcuts. An invalidation detecting unit detects that the license is invalidated. A retrieval unit retrieves a shortcut made inexecutable in association with the license of which the invalidation is detected. An invalidation unit invalidates the retrieved shortcut. | 08-19-2010 |
20110211228 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RESTORE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is described where restoration of unnecessary data is prevented, and a storage area of the image forming apparatus is effectively utilized. When an option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is selected, data backed up by a backup unit is set as data to be restored by a restore unit. When the option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is not selected, data indicated by data identification information as being required data is set as data to be restored by the restore unit from among the data backed up by the backup unit. | 09-01-2011 |
20110299118 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A technique to give a more suitable screen to a user even when functions that can be executed by an image forming apparatus are provided by a linked external apparatus. A comparison unit of the external apparatus compares information about first functions of the external apparatus with information about second functions of the image forming apparatus. A determination unit of the external apparatus determines functions used by the image forming apparatus among the first functions based on a comparison result. A screen information sending unit of the external apparatus sends screen information used for setting the functions determined to the image forming apparatus. A functional information sending unit of the image forming apparatus sends the information about the second function to the external apparatus. A display unit of the image forming apparatus displays a screen for setting the first functions based on the screen information received from the external apparatus. | 12-08-2011 |
20120137312 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The invention provides a mechanism which allows a common device driver to obtain identification information of a USB device desired by an application that controls a USB device via a common device driver. Furthermore, the invention includes two types of common device drivers to be registered in an OS to have different priorities, and provides a common interface that does not allow the application to recognize their difference. | 05-31-2012 |
20120206760 | NETWORK SYSTEM, PROGRAM SET DISTRIBUTION METHOD, DISTRIBUTION SERVER, DISTRIBUTION SERVER CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A distribution managing server determines whether or not an image forming apparatus has already corresponded to an encoding scheme of request firmware requested by the image forming apparatus, and establishes a first communication path having a higher security level than that of a second communication path when the image forming apparatus has not yet corresponded to the encoding scheme. Then, the firmware providing server distributes a decoder module, which is applied to the image forming apparatus so as to correspond to the encoding scheme, to the image forming apparatus using the first communication path, and distributes the request firmware to the image forming apparatus using the second communication path. | 08-16-2012 |
20120284535 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REDUCING LABOR FOR DATA MANAGEMENT OPERATION, AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus capable of reducing user's labor required for a data management operation by enabling the user to leave the data management operation to a serviceman without lowering the security of user data. User data and serviceman data both stored in a data storage unit are encrypted by an encryption unit with an encryption key generated based on information set in advance in the information processing apparatus and with an encryption key generated based on information input by a serviceman, respectively. These encrypted data are output from an export unit to an auxiliary storage unit. | 11-08-2012 |
20120311311 | SETTING VALUE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - Virtual setting values for a specific image forming apparatus are generated using a model-dependent setting value schema which defines a schema of model-dependent setting values in each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses and tenant setting values required to commonly set setting values for the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The virtual setting values are held and managed. | 12-06-2012 |
20130132530 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management service receives acquisition request of application information for the application to be applied from the image forming apparatus, generates and transmits application information corresponding to the image forming apparatus when device configuration information of the image forming apparatus satisfies a applicable condition of the application included in basic set application information and a license for utilizing to apply to the image forming apparatus is present. | 05-23-2013 |
20140022591 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus determines whether an import data receiving path is affected by import processing, imports import data when it is determined that the import data receiving path is not affected, outputs an import result log via the import data receiving path, and displays, when it is determined that the import data receiving path is affected, a warning screen indicating that the import data receiving path is affected by the import before the import data is imported. | 01-23-2014 |
20140026209 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A management server designates an image forming device to which import data including a plurality of setting values is distributed, and distributes the import data to the designated image forming device. When the distributed import data is reflected in the image forming device, the authentication information of the user who instructs the distribution of the import data is input, and a login by authentication processing using the input authentication information fails, the image forming device rolls back the settings for user authentication processing to the settings before the import data is reflected. | 01-23-2014 |
20140355067 | SETTING VALUE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - Virtual setting values for a specific image forming apparatus are generated using a model-dependent setting value schema which defines a schema of model-dependent setting values in each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses and tenant setting values required to commonly set setting values for the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The virtual setting values are held and managed. | 12-04-2014 |