Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100058482 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE DETERMINING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus for executing an application constituted by one or more program modules, includes a license target identification information generating unit configured to generate license target identification information used for identifying which of the program modules are targets of license management, and to store the license target identification information in a storage device, wherein the license target identification information is generated based on one or more program module information items each being associated with one of the program modules to indicate whether the corresponding program module is a target of license management; and a license determination unit configured to determine, in response to an input of a usage request to use the application, whether a license is present, wherein the determination is made only for one or more of the program modules identified as being the targets of license management based on the license target identification information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100071069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An image forming apparatus capable of executing an application formed by a plurality of program modules is disclosed, including: a correspondence information storing part, a determination part, and a boot control part. A correspondence information storing part stores correspondence information corresponding to the plurality of program modules and a plurality of sets of license data for the application. A determination part determines whether to permit or deny activation based on the license data corresponded to the correspondence information for each of the program modules included in the application. A boot control part activates one or more program modules which are permitted to be activated by the determination part. | 03-18-2010 |
20100091338 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An image forming apparatus including a scanner engine and an operation panel is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a display part for displaying a selection screen for selecting a transfer destination of scanned data from among a plurality of transfer destinations on the operation panel; a scanning process part for causing the scanner engine to scan a document to produce scanned data; and a transfer part for transferring the scanned data to one or more selected transfer destinations. | 04-15-2010 |
20110041125 | PROGRAM INTRODUCTION SUPPORTING SERVER, PROGRAM INTRODUCTION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, PROGRAM INTRODUCTION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM INTRODUCTION SUPPORTING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A program introduction supporting server connected to a license managing server storing, by correlating a license identifier of a program license for an electronic apparatus, a program product identifier and a license status indicative of a state of using the program license corresponding to the license identifier, and a program managing server storing by correlating the program product identifier and a program, including a product information acquiring unit acquiring the program product identifier associated with the license identifier, a program acquiring unit acquiring the program corresponding to the program product identifier from the program managing server, a license acquiring unit acquiring a license file corresponding the license identifier by designating the license identifier and updating the license state of the license identifier to a value indicating of use of the license, and an installation controlling unit sending the acquired program and the acquired license file to the electronic apparatus. | 02-17-2011 |
20110055825 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM EMBODIED WITH LICENSE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A disclosed image forming apparatus includes plural license communication control units receiving requests for setting license data having different license managing types, a plurality of license managing units decoding the license data and set licenses by enabling to use the license data, and a license management integrating unit selecting one of the plural license managing units in which the license corresponding the request for setting the license data is set depending on one of the plural license communication control units which receives the request for setting the license data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110066886 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SUPPORTING LICENSE ACQUIREMENT - An apparatus connected to a license management apparatus, storing license status data with license identifiers, via a network, and includes a part for receiving a request to acquire a license corresponding to a license identifier, a part for receiving designation of at least one electronic device for acquiring the license, a part for obtaining a license file corresponding to the license identifier from the license management apparatus, updating the license status data corresponding to the license identifier, and recording the license file to a storage part with the electronic device, a part for executing acquirement, and a part for executing re-execution in a case where the acquiring of the license by the electronic device is determined as a failure according to the result. The re-execution includes displaying the failure of the acquirement on a screen and re-executing the acquirement with the license file based on data input to the screen. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM INTRODUCTION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that is connected with one or plural apparatuses via a predetermined data transmission path, includes a control part that controls a program introduction process that is carried out in plurality of work stages of work of introducing a program to the one or plural apparatuses; a generation part that generates display screen pages corresponding to the work stages, based on a carrying out request of a user and/or carrying out results of one or more of the program introduction processes that have been carried out by the control part in response to the carrying out request; and a renewing part that renews the display screen page currently displayed on a display device of the information processing apparatus with the currently generated display screen page according to a renewing request of the generation part. | 03-17-2011 |
20110067117 | EQUIPMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, EQUIPMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An equipment managing system includes an intermediating apparatus and an equipment managing apparatus. The intermediating apparatus is connected to a license management apparatus and a program management apparatus via a network. The equipment managing apparatus is connected to an electronic equipment via a network. The intermediating apparatus stores a program acquired from the program management apparatus and a license file acquired from the license management apparatus to an external storage medium. The equipment managing apparatus sends the program and the license file recorded in the external storage medium to the electronic equipment. | 03-17-2011 |
20120086981 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 04-12-2012 |
20130139142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores combination information relevant to combinations of different types of first programs that can be installed in a device, the combination information including memory consumption amounts of the combinations; a receiving unit that receives an install target first program and device information relevant to the device; and a determining unit that determines validity of installing the install target first program in the device by determining, by referring to the combination information, a predicted memory consumption amount corresponding to a first combination including the install target first program and an existing first program that is installed in the device and indicated in the device information, and by comparing the predicted memory consumption amount with a device memory consumption amount of the device indicated in the device information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130145141 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND UPDATE PROCESS SUPPORT SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores reboot necessity information for respective versions of programs that are install targets of an electronic device, the reboot necessity information indicating whether the electronic device needs to be rebooted when a first program of a first version installed in the electronic device is updated to a second program of a second version; an extracting unit that extracts difference information indicating a difference between the first program and the second program in response to a request to acquire the second program, the request specifying the first version of the first program; a determining unit that determines whether the electronic device needs to be rebooted when the second program is installed, based on the difference between the first version and the second version indicated in the difference information and the reboot necessity information; and a responding unit that returns a determination result. | 06-06-2013 |
20130174141 | INSTALL METHOD, APPARATUS - An install method executed by an apparatus, including receiving a call from a first program when the first program is activated; and installing a second program that is used by the first program, in response to the call. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174270 | LICENSE INSTALL SUPPORT SYSTEM, LICENSE INSTALL SUPPORT METHOD - A license install support method includes receiving input of a first license identifier used for receiving license data, the license data being used by an electronic device for determining whether activation of a program is allowable; sending, to a license source determining device connected via a network, an acquisition request specifying the first license identifier for acquiring issuing source information including issuing source identification information of the license data; receiving the issuing source information returned from the license source determining device; and using a license install processing unit to acquire the license data corresponding to the first license identifier from a license management device relevant to the issuing source information included among plural license management devices connected via the network, and to send the license data to the electronic device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130235426 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 09-12-2013 |
20140173762 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SUPPORTING LICENSE ACQUIREMENT - A system including a computer and having a part that stores identification data and status data in association with the identification data, a part that receives a request to acquire a license corresponding to a designated identification data, a part that receives a designation of an electronic device, a part that designates the identification data, obtains license data corresponding to the designated identification data, and updates the status data associated with the designated identification data, the updated status data indicating that the license is being used, a part that transmits the license data to the electronic device via a network and instructs the electronic device to acquire the license, and a part that provides a part that receives an instruction for re-executing obtaining of the license data depending on whether the status data is updated and instructs to re-execute the obtaining of the license data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140253951 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 09-11-2014 |
20140333955 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 11-13-2014 |
20140380502 | LICENSE INSTALL SUPPORT SYSTEM, LICENSE INSTALL SUPPORT METHOD - A license install support method includes receiving input of a first license identifier used for receiving license data, the license data being used by an electronic device for determining whether activation of a program is allowable; sending, to a license source determining device connected via a network, an acquisition request specifying the first license identifier for acquiring issuing source information including issuing source identification information of the license data; receiving the issuing source information returned from the license source determining device; and using a license install processing unit to acquire the license data corresponding to the first license identifier from a license management device relevant to the issuing source information included among plural license management devices connected via the network, and to send the license data to the electronic device. | 12-25-2014 |