Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100251132 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a user authentication unit, a display-object-parts presenting section, a parts-selection-instruction accepting section, a layout-instruction accepting section, an action setting section, and a generating section. The user authentication unit permits an authenticated user to create screen data of a display screen. The display-object-parts presenting section presents display object parts to be displayed in the display screen. The parts-selection-instruction accepting section accepts, from the authenticated user, an instruction to select display object parts from the presented display object parts. The layout-instruction accepting section accepts an instruction to place the selected display object parts in the display screen from the authenticated user. The action setting section sets actions corresponding to indicated display object parts in association with the display object parts. The generating section generates the screen data on the basis of the instructions and the setting. | 09-30-2010 |
20120147420 | Mobile Printing System Using a Device Management Server - A mobile printing system includes a cloud server apparatus, a mobile terminal device, a device management server apparatus, a print-control device, and an image forming apparatus. The cloud server apparatus stores a document data file. The mobile terminal device includes a wireless communication interface, and a short-range communication interface of which the maximum communicable distance is shorter than that of the wireless communication interface, and transmits the document data file with its device ID to the cloud server apparatus. The device management server apparatus receives the document data file in association with the device ID, and converts the document data file to print data and stores it. The print-control device detects the mobile terminal device using a short-range communication interface, and receives its device ID, and receives the print data from the document management server apparatus, and transmits the print data to the image forming apparatus for printing. | 06-14-2012 |
20120307279 | Image Forming Apparatus Displaying Information that is Received from an External Device and is Directed to a User - An image forming apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, an information-for-display reception unit, and a display control unit. The display device displays information for display. The operation device is receives input of an operation by a user. The information-for-display reception unit receives the information for display from an external device. The display control unit controls the display device, and causes the display device to display the information for display when the information for display received by the information-for-display reception unit is directed to the user. | 12-06-2012 |
20140376051 | Device Registration System and Method - A device registration system includes a network, an image forming apparatus, a mobile terminal communicatively connected to the network via an access point, and a server. The image forming apparatus comprises an image forming apparatus near field communication (NFC) unit configured to perform wireless communication with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a mobile terminal NFC unit configured to perform wireless communication with the image forming apparatus. The server is configured to register setting information associated with the image forming apparatus in a search list, wherein the setting information includes (i) position information indicative of a location of the image forming apparatus and (ii) tag information representative of a text label that describes the image forming apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20150281482 | Image Forming Apparatus Displaying Information That Is Received from an External Device and Is Directed to a User - An image forming apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, an information-for-display reception unit, and a display control unit. The display device displays information for display. The operation device is receives input of an operation by a user. The information-for-display reception unit receives the information for display from an external device. The display control unit controls the display device, and causes the display device to display the information for display when the information for display received by the information-for-display reception unit is directed to the user. | 10-01-2015 |
20160028906 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When installing a driver program on a terminal device of a user who joins a group to which an image forming apparatus supported by the driver program is assigned, a non-transitory recording medium for installation of the driver program causes a computer in the terminal device to display an operation screen including a first and a second operation element. When the first operation element is selected, the computer is caused to create a document box for the user and add membership information of the user to group management data managed by a predetermined server. When the second operation element is selected, the computer is caused to create the document box, identify an image forming apparatus assigned to a former group of the user with reference to the group management data, delete a document box from the identified image forming apparatus, and add the membership information to the group management data. | 01-28-2016 |
20160124365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONSUMABLE CARTRIDGE MANAGING METHOD - Provided is an image forming apparatus and a consumable cartridge managing method including a read/write part to read/write an information piece from/to the IC tag and a control part having a memory part on which a first apparatus intrinsic number is written. The control part determines whether or not a second apparatus intrinsic number is written on a use history region of the memory when the consumable cartridge is loaded. If the result is No, the control part writes the first apparatus number on the use history region and records additionally the first intrinsic number as the second apparatus intrinsic number on a replacement history region/loading history region of the memory part. If the result is Yes, the control part records additionally the second apparatus intrinsic number on the replacement history region/loading region of the memory part. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124689 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores an account management program. The account management program causes a computer in a mobile terminal apparatus to perform the steps of: receiving service table data from an image forming apparatus and storing the service table data in the mobile terminal apparatus; receiving account information required to use a service from a user; storing the account information in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the account information with the service; receiving an identification code of the service when the user logs in the image forming apparatus, and storing the identification code in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the identification code with the account information associated with the service; and receiving the identification code from the image forming apparatus when performing the service, and transmitting to the image forming apparatus the account information associated with the received identification code. | 05-05-2016 |