Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080281837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROLLING USE OF MEDIUM INSERTED THEREINTO - When a user logs in to an MFP and inserts a medium, a serial number of the medium is stored in a device information database in correspondence with user information of the user, and a descramble key, e.g., a hash code of the serial number is registered in the user information. When the medium is removed from the MFP which is still logged in, the registration is deleted. When the MFP into which the medium is still inserted is logged out, no registration is deleted. When the user logs in to the MFP into which the medium is already inserted, the MFP determines whether a descramble key is registered in user information of the user. When a second user logs in to an MFP from which a first user had logged out while forgetting to remove a medium, the MFP prohibits the second user from accessing the medium because no descramble key is registered in user information of the second user. | 11-13-2008 |
20080285073 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION SYSTEM, WORKFLOW EXECUTION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND WORKFLOW PROXY EXECUTION PROGRAM - In a workflow execution system, work control information for executing a work assigned to one of a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to a network; workflow execution information indicating which works of a workflow have been executed; and information indicating an image processing apparatus on the next tier, are stored in a portable recording medium. When the work is executed by a proxy image processing apparatus, it is judged from the information stored in the portable recording medium whether or not the work can be executed by the proxy image processing apparatus, and if it can be executed, the work is executed based on the information stored in the portable recording medium. When proxy execution of the work is completed, workflow execution information including the execution result and image information are stored in the portable recording medium and transmitted to the image processing apparatus on the next tier. | 11-20-2008 |
20080304660 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS ALLOWING EASY MANAGEMENT RELATING TO USER'S USAGE | 12-11-2008 |
20090044251 | MEETING SYSTEM INCLUDING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED THERETO, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED TO DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND DATA OUTPUT PROGRAM - In order to prevent leakage of confidential data, a meeting system includes a MFP and a projector. The MFP includes a data obtaining portion to obtain data, a participant information obtaining portion to obtain user identification information as participant information, an access permission determination portion and an output permission determination portion to determine whether or not a user identified by the participant information can access the obtained data, to determine that the obtained data can be output if the determination result shows that all the meeting participants can access the obtained data, and to determine that the obtained data cannot be output if any one of the meeting participants cannot access the obtained data, and an output portion to output data on condition that it is determined by the output permission determination portion that data can be output. The display device displays an image based on the data output from the data processing apparatus. | 02-12-2009 |
20090310168 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WEB PAGE PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is provided with: a job data reception processing portion that receives a command to print a web page and a conditional expression used to search for that web page from a terminal; a print execution processing portion that causes a printing device to print a web page based on the received command; a web browser portion that causes a search engine to search for a web page based on the received conditional expression and receives the results of that search; and a window display processing portion that causes the obtained results to be displayed in a display. The web browser portion furthermore obtains a web page selected by a user from the displayed results, and the print execution processing portion causes the printing device to print the obtained web page. | 12-17-2009 |
20110013216 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The system according to the present invention includes: a portable storage medium which can store data and job data regarding a job to be executed by the image processing apparatus; an information processing apparatus which can record and read the job data in the portable storage medium to be executed by the image processing apparatus; and at least one image processing apparatus which can read and update the job data stored in the portable storage medium. The image processing apparatus reads the job data stored in the portable storage medium and executes image processing based on the job data. In addition, when the job data is interrupted during its execution, the image processing apparatus can add data which indicates that the job is interrupted in the job data or record the data which indicates that the job is interrupted to be related with the job data. The image processing apparatus reads the job data which includes the data indicating that the job is interrupted and resumes the job from the interrupted state. The data which indicates that the job is interrupted may be recorded to be related with the job data separately from the job data. | 01-20-2011 |
20110066531 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - A document processing device downloads a document processing program from a server device through a network and executes the document processing program, thereby processing document data to be processed. The document processing device comprises: an identification information generating part for generating identification information for identifying the document data to be processed based on the document data; a program acquiring part for transmitting the identification information to the server device, and downloading the document processing program capable of processing only the document data that corresponds to the identification information from the server device; and a program executing part for processing the document data to be processed by executing the document processing program acquired by the program acquiring part. | 03-17-2011 |
20120206757 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR BEING ABLE TO UTILIZE APPLICATION IN WHICH WEB BROWSER IS USED - An image forming apparatus registers a Web application provided by a server. When receiving an instruction to select the registered Web application, the image forming apparatus acquires information for performing the Web application in response to the received selection instruction, and stores the information as cache information. When receiving an instruction to cancel the registration of the Web application, the image forming apparatus cancels the registration of the Web application in response to the received instruction, and deletes the cache information corresponding to the Web application in which the registration is cancelled in the stored pieces of cache information. | 08-16-2012 |
20120233537 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR BEING ABLE TO UTILIZE APPLICATION IN WHICH WEB BROWSER IS USED - An image forming apparatus accesses a server that provides a Web application to enable Web application to be utilized. The image forming apparatus receives an instruction to utilize the Web application, and acquires a document expressing a Web page of the Web application in response to the received instruction. The image forming apparatus determines whether a previously-set fixed name is included in a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) included in the acquired document. When it is determined that the fixed name is included in the URI, the image forming apparatus acquires data correlating to the URI from a predetermined location previously correlated to the fixed name. Using the acquired data, the image forming apparatus generates a display screen of the Web application based on the document. | 09-13-2012 |
20130159536 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device executing a job in cooperation with a server, comprises: an external terminal connecting part for establishing connection that allows communication with an external terminal; a server connecting part for conducting a negotiation to execute the job with the server and establishing connection with the server in response to receipt of a request from the external terminal; a transmission part for sending information that is received from the external terminal and addressed to the server after rewriting a source address of the information to an address of the image processing device; a screen image control part for outputting screen image information to the external terminal in response to receipt of the screen image information from the server; and a job execution control part for starting execution of the job with the server in accordance with a control command after receiving the control command from the server. | 06-20-2013 |