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20120239830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DEVICE LINKAGE METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a user interface unit configured to receive a function execution request for processes, the function execution request containing designations of an input function and an output function; a search and linkage unit configured to acquire pieces of specifications information indicating functions of an input device and an output device from the respective devices, and generate, based on the pieces of specifications information, a linkage flow indicating an execution sequence and a combination of an input device and an output device which respectively have an input function and an output function designated in the function execution request, the devices executing the functions, respectively, in linkage with each other; and a flow executing unit configured to send process requests to the input device and the output device designated in the linkage flow, respectively. | 09-20-2012 |
20130117473 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus connected to a plurality of devices via a network includes a collecting unit that receives usage data indicating a status of use of each of the devices from each of the devices and that stores the received usage data in a storage device, and a common data acquiring unit that acquires common data that is common to the devices from the usage data of each of the devices stored in the storage device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130242328 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive output object information on an object to be output; a storage unit configured to store therein output device information on different types of output devices; and a determining unit configured to determine an output device based on the output object information and the output device information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246657 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus is connectable to a plurality of devices of different types via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, from the devices, management information of each of the devices in a data format corresponding to the respective devices; a first storage unit that stores therein a first conversion rule for converting the management information into manage information in a first common data format common to the devices; and a conversion unit that converts the management information thus received into management information in the first common data format based on the first conversion rule. | 09-19-2013 |
20140207932 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system including at least one computer includes a first assigning part that receives from a device a process request including device process identification information identifying a predetermined process unit of the device and assigns request identification information identifying the process request; and a storage part that stores the device process identification information and the request identification information in association with each other in connection with a process executed in response to the process request. | 07-24-2014 |
20140258515 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus connected to a plurality of devices via a network includes a collecting unit that receives usage data indicating a status of use of each of the devices from each of the devices and that stores the received usage data in a storage device, and a common data acquiring unit that acquires common data that is common to the devices from the usage data of each of the devices stored in the storage device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140337541 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus connected to a plurality of devices via a network includes a collecting unit that receives usage data indicating a status of use of each of the devices from each of the devices and that stores the received usage data in a storage device, and a common data acquiring unit that acquires common data that is common to the devices from the usage data of each of the devices stored in the storage device. | 11-13-2014 |
20150039741 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS - A remote management system includes a service providing apparatus enabling access to a providing source that provides a service and a management apparatus managing an apparatus via a network. Further the service providing apparatus includes a generation unit generating an acquisition request command and a response unit transmitting a response in combination with the acquisition request command. The management apparatus includes a registration unit registering the apparatus information of the apparatus in association with the identification information and a management unit managing the apparatus using the apparatus information registered by the registration unit. | 02-05-2015 |
20150116774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive output object information on an object to be output; a storage unit configured to store therein output device information on different types of output devices; and a determining unit configured to determine an output device based on the output object information and the output device information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150256709 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DEVICE LINKAGE METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a user interface unit configured to receive a function execution request for processes, the function execution request containing designations of an input function and an output function; a search and linkage unit configured to acquire pieces of specifications information indicating functions of an input device and an output device from the respective devices, and generate, based on the pieces of specifications information, a linkage flow indicating an execution sequence and a combination of an input device and an output device which respectively have an input function and an output function designated in the function execution request, the devices executing the functions, respectively, in linkage with each other; and a flow executing unit configured to send process requests to the input device and the output device designated in the linkage flow, respectively. | 09-10-2015 |
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20090063612 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system - When plural image forming apparatuses support different formats for a request, the content of the request is analyzed and processed properly in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to receive a request from a client apparatus in a predetermined description format; a request analysis unit configured to analyze the request to acquire and output a request item included in the request; a process content acquisition unit configured to acquire a process content corresponding to the request item outputted from the request analysis unit, and configured to receive a next output from the request analysis unit in the absence of the process content corresponding to the request item; and an executing unit configured to execute a process corresponding to the request item. | 03-05-2009 |
20100002254 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a shared processing unit configured to define processes used in common by a plurality of function implementing units, and a management unit configured to store in memory a logic name and identification information identifying a function implementing unit for each of the plurality of function implementing units such that the logic name and the identification information are associated with each other, and to generate a logic unit based on a logic name associated with given identification information contained in a request if the given identification information contained in the request is stored in the memory, the logic unit serving to cause a function implementing unit identified by the given identification information to perform processing, wherein the shared processing unit is configured to request the logic unit generated by the management unit to process a requested item contained in the request. | 01-07-2010 |
20100220352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a function realizing unit performing a function in accordance with a request sent from a client device in a first description format. A request analyzing unit analyzes the request to acquire function realizing unit identifying information and a request item. A format of the request item is converted into a corresponding data format of the function realizing unit or a second description format, depending on whether the corresponding description format is available. The image forming apparatus generates a response in the first description format based on a response item that is outputted by the function realizing unit in the corresponding data format or in the second description format, indicating whether the request item has been processed by the function realizing unit. | 09-02-2010 |
20110067088 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image processing device which is configured to use plug-ins to provide services, a service managing part manages services, plug-ins of which are implemented. A common control part controls common processes of a requested service in response to a service execution request with respect to one of the services. A common process part performs common processes for the respective services. An individual process part performs an individual process in the common processes, the individual process being implemented as a plug-in. The common process part includes an individual-process managing part which manages the individual process associated with one of the services. | 03-17-2011 |
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20110118311 | AZOLE COMPOUND - A compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating neuropathic pain is provided. The present inventors have made extensive studies on compounds having an FAAH inhibitory activity, and as a result, have found that an azole compound substituted with an N-(pyridine-3-yl)oxycarbonyl-piperidin-4-yl group and a phenyl group or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has an excellent FAAH inhibitory activity, thereby completing the present invention. The compound of the present invention is confirmed to have an excellent FAAH inhibitory activity and an antiallodynic effect in rat models with neuropathic pain, and thus is useful as an agent for preventing and/or an agent for treating neuropathic pain. | 05-19-2011 |
20140179695 | CHROMANE COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by β-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a β-secretase site of a β-amyloid precursor protein, and/or β-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease. | 06-26-2014 |
20150225386 | CHROMANE COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides a hydrate of N-[(4S)-2-amino-2′,2′-dimethyldispiro[1,3-oxazole-4,4′-chromene-3′,3″-oxetan]-6′-yl]-5-chloropyridine-2-carboxamide which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by β-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a β-secretase site of a β-amyloid precursor protein, and/or β-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease. | 08-13-2015 |