Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080301771 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION METHOD, APPLICATION EXECUTION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING EXECUTABLE PROGRAM INSTRUCTION - The present invention claims and discloses an electronic device comprising a storage part for storing a license check processing program for checking a license in order to execute a processing function of an application program, license setting information containing location information where the license check processing program is executed within the application program; and an application program execution part for executing the application program by associating the license check processing program with a location preset in the application program based on the license setting information stored in the storage part. The present invention further teaches performing a license check processing by the license check processing program associated with the location, and when the license is not properly authenticated, the program in accordance with the present invention will skip the processing function corresponding to the license check processing program to execute a subsequent processing function. | 12-04-2008 |
20090044205 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, SERVICE OFFERING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention teaches and claims an electronic appliance for controlling a device via a controller comprises an application managing unit, a storing unit, a controller API and a secondary API. The application managing unit manages an application. The application is prepared with the use of an API, which operates the device to offer a service to a user, and is selected upon activation of the electronic appliance. The storing unit stores information about a correlation between the application and the API. The controller API is called by the application, and issues a request to the controller such that the controller operates the device. The secondary API has an interface so as not to be implemented in the controller API, and is called by the application on the basis of any correlation information, which consequently starts up the application with the use of the interface when version information of the API is newer than version information of the controller API. | 02-12-2009 |
20100212026 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus comprises a communication interface unit that performs communication with a terminal device, a storage unit that stores an application program installed under license and a management application program for managing the application program, an arithmetic processing unit that executes the application program and the management application program stored in the storage unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not predetermined software installed in the terminal device has a legitimate license code corresponding to the license of the management application program, and an installing unit that, when it is determined that the predetermined software has a legitimate license code, obtains the application program from the terminal device and installs the application program into the storage unit. | 08-19-2010 |
20100302582 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming System - An image forming apparatus includes an application management unit that detects a restricted function of which use by a given user is inhibited from among functions within an application. The image forming apparatus further includes a function monitoring unit that registers the restricted function detected by the application management unit, and inhibits the user from executing the restricted function. | 12-02-2010 |
20110075204 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is an image forming system, including an image forming apparatus connected to a communication network and a server connected to the communication network. The image forming apparatus includes a management service processing unit that transmits a registration request for registering the image forming apparatus as a target of a management service to the server. The server includes a data management unit that receives the registration request and registers the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the registration request as the target of the management service. The management service processing unit periodically collects device information including a state and/or a setting of the image forming apparatus and transmits the device information to the data management unit. The data management unit periodically acquires the device information from the management service processing unit and retains the device information. | 03-31-2011 |
20140139887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM WITH UPLOADING PROGRAM STORED THEREON, AND UPLOADING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a scanning unit, an issuing unit, a storage unit, an information receiving unit, an identification unit, an authentication unit, and a communication control unit. The image data number issuing unit issues a unique image data number for image data. A user inputs the image data number of the image data, cloud information, a login ID, and a password into an external terminal. The external terminal transmits the input content to the image forming apparatus. The login authentication unit performs authentication on a cloud identified by the target cloud identification unit using the transmitted login ID and password. When login is successful, the upload control unit transmits the image data of the image data number to the cloud. | 05-22-2014 |
20160070515 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH APPLICATION CREATING PROGRAM FOR CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION STORED THEREON, AND PROGRAMING TOOL - An information processing apparatus includes a tool storage section, an acquisition method acceptance section, a template specification acceptance section, and an application creating section. The tool storage section stores a programing tool having a function of acquiring print data from an advertisement delivery server and a function of managing the print data. The acquisition method acceptance section is configured to accept setting of a data acquisition method for acquiring the print data. The template specification acceptance section is configured to accept specification of a template for use in printing the print data. The application creating section is configured to use the programing tool to create a communication application allowing acquisition of the print data according to the accepted data acquisition method and generation of an image according to the accepted template. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072967 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING APPLICATION CREATION PROGRAM FOR CREATING COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - An information processor includes: an application information reception section, a function information reception section, a communication setting reception section, and an application creation section. The application information reception section receives an input of application information. The function information reception section receives an input of print settings as the function information from an operator. The communication setting reception section receives an input of communication settings, including an URL of a data storage server, required for the communication with the data storage serve. The application creation section creates, by using the application information, the communication application for executing processing in accordance with the print settings and the received communication settings. | 03-10-2016 |