Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090282117 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A destination table is updated on the basis of the use record of destination information in adaptation to the environment of a user. A device management server collects a destination table managed by each device from a device on a network. Then, the device management server checks the use record of the destination table collected from each image forming device, and determines a candidate to be deleted. Then, the device management server does not delete the destination table determined to be a deletion candidate when a number of times operations have been performed by the image forming device in a predetermined period is less than a threshold value. The device management server deletes the destination table of the determined candidate when the number of times operations have been performed by the image forming device in the predetermined period is greater than or equal to the threshold value. | 11-12-2009 |
20090288100 | Application Platform - An object is to provide an application platform in which, before a screen of an application is displayed, another application can display any screen by an optional determination standard. When the screen of a first application is to be displayed, if a second application exists monitoring a function of an image forming apparatus included in the first application, the second application is notified of the function information before the screen of the first application is displayed. Then, for realizing the above, the use function of the image forming apparatus is registered for each of the first applications, and the monitor function is registered for each of the second applications. | 11-19-2009 |
20100134832 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus configured to allow a plurality of installed applications to be executed includes a storage unit configured to include a storage area storing information about the plurality of applications, and a registration unit configured to receive the application information about the application from an external apparatus without involving the application and to register the received application information into the storage area, wherein the application information includes identification information for identifying the application and usage information to be used by the application. | 06-03-2010 |
20110051194 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus includes an output unit configured to periodically output a file to a storage region of a storage device and to share the storage region with another apparatus, a check unit configured to check whether a periodical output of the file to the storage region performed by a plurality of apparatuses is successful based on a number of the files stored in the storage region, and a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing based on a result of the check performed by the check unit. | 03-03-2011 |
20110137857 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a creating unit that creates a plurality of files different in file format from identical setting information stored in a storage unit of the apparatus, a receiving unit that receives at least one of the created plurality of files, a determination unit that determines a file to be used among the plurality of received files according to at least one of the file formats of the plurality of files and dates of updates of the plurality of files, and an updating unit that updates the stored setting information using the determined file. | 06-09-2011 |
20110289505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - The function restriction information of a designated flow executor is acquired. The acquired function restriction information is analyzed. An operation screen that identifiably displays process contents executable by the flow executor in association with setting target functions to be set in the flow is displayed on the basis of the analyzed function restriction information. Process contents of a setting target function to be set in the flow are selected on the basis of an operation in the operation screen. The flow of the flow executor is generated by combining the functions of the selected process contents. | 11-24-2011 |
20120033254 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus may include a conversion unit, a transmission unit, and an instruction unit. The conversion unit acquires document data from a document management apparatus in response to a conversion request transmitted from an external device in a case where it is detected that a predetermined document operation is performed on the document data and converts the acquired document data into print data to be used by an image forming apparatus to output the document data. The transmission unit transmits to the image forming apparatus the print data converted from the document data by the conversion unit. The instruction unit instructs the image forming apparatus to output document data transmitted from the transmission unit in response to an output request transmitted from the external device in a case where it is detected that an output operation of outputting the document data is performed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120086980 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM - A system and method for registering an image forming apparatus in a print server when the image forming apparatus is used on a temporarily basis, and for unregistering the image forming apparatus from the print server after the temporary use ends. | 04-12-2012 |
20130063782 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus configured to allow a plurality of installed applications to be executed includes a storage unit configured to include a storage area storing information about the plurality of applications, and a registration unit configured to receive the application information about the application from an external apparatus without involving the application and to register the received application information into the storage area, wherein the application information includes identification information for identifying the application and usage information to be used by the application. | 03-14-2013 |
20130096730 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an image forming apparatus, a shutdown request unit controls the image forming apparatus to perform shutdown at shutdown execution date and time included in schedule information, which is set beforehand and managed by a schedule management unit. A function restriction management unit restricts at least part of a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus stepwise at timing earlier than the shutdown execution date and time, and a message management unit notifies a user of a message whose content is differentiated in each of steps. | 04-18-2013 |
20140198336 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system totals print result information for each customer user. The device management system receives a request including customer information from a client terminal, and responds to the client with a redirect URL for causing the client to access an image forming apparatus installed in an environment corresponding to customer information included in the request in order for user authentication of the client terminal. When the image forming apparatus accessed by the client terminal has succeeded the user authentication, the print result information relating to the user is provided to the client terminal. | 07-17-2014 |