Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090144360 | NETWORK DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for mitigating traffic increase due to both a proxy server and a network device transmitting response packets to a search request by multicast. The network device transmits to the proxy server information required for a client apparatus to communicate with the network device. When the proxy server is in a state where proxy-send of the information is possible, the network device restricts response to a search request by multicast from the client apparatus. | 06-04-2009 |
20090204710 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system includes a network device and an information processing apparatus. The network device generates request information including the information used to identify the user, and requests to issue access control information including access restriction information indicating whether or not each of the functions of the network device can be used. The information processing apparatus generates access control information which associates the access restriction information with the user information. The network device further controls the use of the respective functions with respect to the operation input in accordance with the access restriction information included in the generated access control information. | 08-13-2009 |
20090254664 | SESSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A session management system enabling network resources to be efficiently utilized or saved when communication addresses are assigned to a network interface. The system manages sessions between a server having a plurality of addresses and a client. It is determined, in a case where an application provided with the client requests to communicate with the server, whether or not a session in which an address different from an address designated by the application is used is already established between the client and the server. The application is caused to communicate with the server by using the already established session when it is determined that the session is already established, and communicate with the server by using a newly established session when it is determined that the session is not established. | 10-08-2009 |
20100077076 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A management apparatus determines whether or not another management apparatus exists on a network, and if it is determined that the another management apparatus exists, acquires information on a device searched by the another management apparatus from the another management apparatus. The management apparatus searches a device on the network and determines whether or not the searched device is searched by the another management apparatus, and acquires information from the device, that is not acquired among information on the device, in a case that it is determined that the device is not searched by the another management apparatus. | 03-25-2010 |
20100332681 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SELECTING A PROPER SOURCE ADDRESS FROM A PLURALITY OF SOURCE ADDRESSES ASSIGNED THERETO, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus capable of selecting a proper source address even when a plurality of source addresses are assigned thereto and reducing the occurrence of a communication error caused by a source address change during communication processing. A transmission section transmits data. A transmission information management section manages transmission information including data identification information for identifying a type of data to be transmitted, and a destination address and source address of the data. A source address-determining section is operable when data to be transmitted is of a specific type, to refer to the managed transmission information, and out of the assigned source addresses, determine a source address used in the past for transmitting data to a destination address of the data to be transmitted, as a source address thereof. A communication control section causes the transmission section to transmits the data using the determined source address. | 12-30-2010 |
20110179189 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus capable of preferentially selecting an address of a type having no lifetime set thereto or an address of a type having a lifetime which can be extended, depending on the use of the address to be selected. A client CPU acquires attribute information of each of a plurality of addresses in the apparatus, identifies addresses of a type having no lifetime set thereto or addresses of a type having a lifetime which can be extended, based on the acquired attribute information. The client CPU selects an address for use in communication with the external apparatus from the addresses, and determines a use of the address to be selected when selecting the same. When the use of the address to be selected is determined to be a specific one, the selection is caused to be performed preferentially from the addresses identified by the identification. | 07-21-2011 |
20110235641 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS,AND PROGRAM - In an apparatus that can be connected to an external apparatus to which multiple addresses are allocated over a network, a packet including certain identification information is transmitted to the external apparatus by using a first address as a destination. If a packet that is received includes the certain identification information, a source address of the received packet is extracted. If the extracted source address is a second address different from the first address, the second address is used as the destination in the subsequent transmission of a packet to the external apparatus. | 09-29-2011 |
20120036570 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus to communicate with a service provision system via a firewall may include an identification unit, a determination unit, and a communication unit. The identification unit identifies, out of services provided by the service provision system, a service which provides a substitute function corresponding to a function of the image forming apparatus limited by a failure. The determination unit determines, out of a plurality of communication methods to be used for communication with the service provision system via the firewall, a communication method to be used to perform data communication with the service identified by the identification unit. The communication unit performs data communication with the service identified by the identification unit by using the communication method determined by the determination unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20120215910 | WEB SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND WEB SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A virtual device management server manages location information and resource information about a virtual device server as server information. The virtual device management server receives a processing request and printer location information from a printer. Then, the virtual device management server selects a virtual device server for providing a Web service corresponding to the processing request on the basis of server information, the processing request, and location information about the printer to thereby assign the selected virtual device server to the printer. | 08-23-2012 |
20130145183 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management system which includes an image forming apparatus having a plurality of functions, and a management apparatus which manages the image forming apparatus, the management apparatus comprises: a power consumption acquisition unit which acquires information of power consumptions for the respective functions of the image forming apparatus; a supply power acquisition unit which acquires information of a supply power to be supplied to the image forming apparatus; a determination unit which determines a power consumption value to be consumed by the image forming apparatus based on the information of the power consumptions for the acquired respective functions and the information of the acquired supply power; and a setting unit which sets a power consumption of the image forming apparatus to be operated at the determined power consumption value. | 06-06-2013 |
20140056313 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CLIENT APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a communication system in which a server apparatus on the Internet is connected to at least one client apparatus on an intranet via a firewall, the client apparatus comprises: acquisition means for acquiring, from the server apparatus, information associated with a transmission interval at which notifications are periodically transmitted to maintain the connection to the server; and management means for maintaining the connection by periodically transmitting the notifications based on the information associated with the acquired transmission interval, and the server apparatus comprises: decision means for deciding an interval, in which the connection in the push communication can be maintained in non-communication, based on the communication status information; and notification means for notifying the client apparatus of the decided interval as information associated with the transmission interval used to maintain the connection in the push communication. | 02-27-2014 |
20140297723 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server computer sets a priority order of each of contents based on an attribute of each of the contents designated by HTML data and provides the HTML data including the priority order with a client computer. The client computer acquires the contents from the server computer by using streams with priorities depending on the priority order of each of the contents designated by the HTML data provided from the server computer. The client computer controls display using a part of the contents and caches other contents from among the acquired contents. | 10-02-2014 |
20150058395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - In an information processing terminal, a web browser, if instructed by a user to call a function for specific data managed by a client, identifies second function information for adapting the specific data to a type processable by a first function called by using first function information belonging to a category corresponding to the function called by a user's instruction. The web browser issues a request for processing the specific data processed with a second function called by using the identified second function information, with the first function, and receives a processing result of the requested processing. | 02-26-2015 |