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20110102834 | PRINTING MANAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING MANAGING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a printing managing apparatus includes a log memory, an allowed amount memory, a counting unit, a calculating unit, and an output unit. The log memory stores, in association with user identification information, information indicating a sheet printed by an image forming apparatus according to an instruction of a user or information indicating a sheet discarded by the user. The allowed amount memory stores allowed amounts of sheets usable by users. The counting unit counts the number of un-discarded sheets among sheets printed by a certain user stored by the log memory. The calculating unit calculates a usage ratio of sheets from the number of un-discarded sheets counted by the counting unit and the allowed amount of sheets for the user stored by the allowed amount memory. The output unit outputs information including the usage ratio of sheets calculated by the calculating unit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102853 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an issuing unit, an image creating unit, a code creating unit, a first storage unit, and an image forming unit. The issuing unit issues identification information for each image. The image creating unit creates one image for image formation in which the plural images for which the identification information are arranged. The code creating unit creates one code image by encoding information including the plural pieces of identification information for the plural images arranged in the image for image formation. The first storage unit stores the number of times of image formation for each image arranged in the image for image formation, in association with the identification information for each image issued by the issuing unit. The image forming unit forms an image including the image for image formation and the code image on one sheet. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106753 | DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a document managing system includes a communication unit, a printing unit, a reading unit, a document-management-information storing unit, a discarding-information storing unit, an informing unit, and a management-information analyzing unit. The reading unit reads a document recorded on a recording medium and acquires a document file. The document-management-information storing unit stores, together with the document file, document management information including a confidentiality level of the document. The discarding-information storing unit stores plural kinds of discarding information for discarding a plurality of the recording media each of which is different depending on the confidentiality level of the document. The management-information analyzing unit acquires the discarding information corresponding to the confidentiality level of the document read by the reading unit and informing the discarding information from the informing unit. | 05-05-2011 |
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20100253975 | PRINT SERVER AND DATA MANAGING METHOD IN PRINT SERVER - A print server includes a first input unit receiving print data from user terminals, a distribution unit distributing the print data to individual users, a storage unit storing the print data distributed to the individual users in folders of the individual users, a second input unit receiving an access request, header information of which includes apparatus information indicating an apparatus as an access source and an authenticated user name indicating an authenticated user, a user specifying unit specifying a user on the basis of the authenticated user name included in the header information received, and an output unit outputting information, which indicates the print data stored in the folder of the user specified by the user specifying unit, to the apparatus indicated by the apparatus information if the folder of the user exists in the storage unit. | 10-07-2010 |
20100271650 | DATA PROVIDING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A data providing method comprises performing contactless communication with a mobile device brought close to the relay, selecting an appropriate workspace that is appropriate for unique information representing the status of the contactless communication with the mobile device from a plurality of workspaces that collects a plurality of information related to each task, sending information of the selected appropriate workspace to the mobile device by the contactless communication, and allowing the mobile device to access the appropriate workspace in response to an access request for the appropriate workspace from the mobile device. | 10-28-2010 |
20110317197 | PRINTER SERVER TYPE PRINT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a printer server type print system includes plural digital multi-function peripherals, an information processing apparatus and a printer server. The information processing apparatus includes a display unit, an input unit and a first control unit. The display unit is configured to display information of the plural digital multi-function peripherals. The input unit is configured to accept setting of at least one digital multi-function peripheral allowed for outputting among the plural digital multi-function peripherals. The first control unit is configured to transmit a print job including information of the digital multi-function peripheral allowed for outputting. The printer server includes a memory and a second control unit. The second control unit is configured to manage the print job stored in the memory. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317199 | PRINTER SERVER-TYPE PRINTING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a printer server-type printing system includes a printer server and a digital multifunction device. The printer server includes a first communication unit, a first control unit, and a memory. The first control unit determines whether or not an SSL is used for one or more print jobs received from an information processor through the first communication unit. When the SSL is used, the memory sets the print jobs as an SSL print jobs, and when the SSL is not used, the memory sets the print jobs as a normal print jobs. The digital multifunction device includes a second communication unit, an input unit, and a second control unit. The input unit receives an input of one or more a target print jobs. The second control unit requests the target print jobs input in the input unit to the printer server through the second communication unit. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317214 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING IMAGE FORMING DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controller. The storage unit stores print jobs received from an external apparatus. The communication unit transmits the print job stored in the storage unit, in response to a print request for the print job from any image forming apparatus, to the image forming apparatus which is a print request source. The controller changes the print job of which a storage limit expires among the print jobs stored in the storage unit into a deleted print job so as to have a temporary storage limit. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317215 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING PRINT DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, a list sending unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives print data designating a user who is able to execute printing. The storage unit stores the print data received by the reception unit. The list sending unit sends a list of the print data, which the user who is an operator of an image forming apparatus is able to execute, to the image forming apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the print data selected from the list of the print data sent by the list sending unit to the image forming apparatus. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317220 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a transfer unit, and a management unit. The storage unit stores user identification information and an extension condition with information indicating a print job. If the transfer unit receives an inquiry of a print job including user information from an image forming apparatus, the transfer unit transfers the print job corresponding to the user information included in the inquiry to the image forming apparatus as the inquiry sending source from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit. The management unit deletes a print job, to which an extension condition was added, from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit after the elapse time from the print job receiving time point exceeds the preservation period and the extension condition is then further exceeded. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317227 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a setting unit, and a control unit. The scanner is configured to read a document. The setting unit is configured to receive an instruction to append a display image to a signature field of a PDF. The control unit is configured to generate the PDF by appending the display image to the signature field, for the document. | 12-29-2011 |
20130188219 | PRINT SYSTEM AND PRINT SERVER - According to one embodiment, a print system includes a client computer connected to a network and configured to generate a document as a print job, a print server connected to the network and configured to store, as an updated print job, the document generated by the client computer and additional information added to the document, a viewing terminal connected to the network and used to view the document stored in the print server and add information to the document, and a printer configured to print the document together with the added information according to a printing instruction. | 07-25-2013 |
20140092434 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING PRINT DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, a list sending unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives print data designating a user who is able to execute printing. The storage unit stores the print data received by the reception unit. The list sending unit sends a list of the print data, which the user who is an operator of an image forming apparatus is able to execute, to the image forming apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the print data selected from the list of the print data sent by the list sending unit to the image forming apparatus. | 04-03-2014 |
20140233051 | DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND PROGRAM FOR DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER - A document distribution server a data conversion unit configured to convert document data into a common format data that have the same appearance when displayed on a display device and when printed with a printing device, a receiving unit configured to receive a request to display the document data in the display device and to receive a request to print the document data in the printing device, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the common format data to the display device when the request to display the document data is received from the display device and to transmit the common format data to the printing device when the request to print the document data is received from the printing device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244754 | DATA MANAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADDING DATA TO PLURAL TERMINAL DEVICES AND DATA MANAGING PROGRAM - A data managing device manages data created in a plurality of terminal devices connected through a network. The data managing device includes a drawing storage unit configured to store added drawing data when the drawing data is added by a first terminal device, and a controller configured to control the drawing storage unit and communicate with the plurality of terminal devices so that the added drawing data is displayed on at least one of the plurality of terminal devices other than the first terminal device if the first terminal device had presenter authority when the drawing data is added. | 08-28-2014 |
20140285847 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING IMAGE FORMING DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controller. The storage unit stores print jobs received from an external apparatus. The communication unit transmits the print job stored in the storage unit, in response to a print request for the print job from any image forming apparatus, to the image forming apparatus which is a print request source. The controller changes the print job of which a storage limit expires among the print jobs stored in the storage unit into a deleted print job so as to have a temporary storage limit. | 09-25-2014 |
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20080201704 | OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAM INSTALLATION SUPPORT METHOD - The invention provides a technique that can make, when a driver program for controlling office equipment from an external apparatus is installed in the external apparatus, work for the installation simple and easy regardless of a positional relation between the office equipment and the external apparatus. | 08-21-2008 |
20090106319 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A technique that improves convenience in accessing data stored in a predetermined memory area is provided. | 04-23-2009 |
20100141981 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 06-10-2010 |
20100167314 | CONTROL OF INTRACELLULAR TARGET MOLECULE BY IP3 RECEPTOR-BINDING PROTEIN - The present invention provides a composition comprising an IP | 07-01-2010 |
20100220349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and performs a private print process according to a request from an authenticated user. When the user requests interruption of the private print which is now performed or it is detected that the user has left a place near the image forming apparatus while the private print is being performed, the image forming apparatus interrupts the private print which is now performed and stores a print state at the interruption time. Further, the image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and re-starts the private print which is interrupted in response to a re-start request from the authenticated user. | 09-02-2010 |
20110317203 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 12-29-2011 |
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20100188699 | PRINT JOB MANAGING SERVER, PRINT JOB MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE METHOD - The present invention provides a technique capable of preventing, in a system that transmits a print job from a network terminal to a printing apparatus through a print job managing server, useless consumption of a storage area of the printing apparatus and an unnecessary increase in traffic in a network. A print job managing server includes: a transmission-destination-information acquiring unit configured to acquire job transmission destination information for specifying at least one printing apparatus that is a job transmission destination associated in advance with information concerning a transmission source of a print job; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job to the printing apparatus, which is the job transmission destination, on the basis of the acquired job transmission destination information. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188711 | TRANSFERRED DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, TRANSFERRED DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Management of a transferred document in a unit of the number of copies is realized, if first transfer management information indicating information concerning transfer processing applied to an original document in the past is included in image data of the original document, the first transfer management information is acquired. Second transfer management information, which is obtained by adding information concerning transfer processing performed on the basis of the acquired image data to content indicated by the acquired first transfer management information, is separately generated according to the number of copies of transferred documents obtained by transferring the original document such that the second transfer management information is peculiar to each of the transferred documents. To a transferred document obtained by the transfer processing based on the acquired image data, the second transfer management information generated in association with the transferred document is granted. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188712 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image corresponding to input data on a sheet; and a CPU configured to determine, if the image is formed on the sheet, whether authority information concerning treatment of the image is included in the input data and cause. If the authority information is included, the image forming unit forms information concerning a license on the sheet. The information concerning the license is acquired by communication with a server that permits use of the input data based on the authority information. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188713 | SCAN IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A scan image management apparatus configured to manage scan image data acquired by scanning an original document, the scan image management apparatus includes: an ID-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, with a CPU, ID information of a portable recording medium recorded in the portable recording medium; and a use-information recording unit configured to record, with the CPU, the ID information acquired by the ID-information acquiring unit and information for specifying an original document, which is a reading source of scan image data that should be recorded in the portable recording medium, which is an acquisition source of the ID information, in association with each other. | 07-29-2010 |
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20150242064 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS DOCUMENT PAGE - An information display apparatus includes a display unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display a document page with a plurality of layers superimposed thereon. The plurality of layers includes a first layer that includes a first image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and not by an apparatus external to the information display apparatus, and a second layer that includes a second image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and the apparatus external to the information display apparatus. The control unit is configured to set one of the plurality of layers as a writing layer in which a user can add an image, and control the display unit such that a density of the first image is different from a density of the second image when the first layer is set as the writing layer. | 08-27-2015 |
20150242075 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DOCUMENT DATA AND DOCUMENT DATA SERVER - A method for providing document data includes storing document data of a document having a plurality of pages and page management data associated with the document data, the page management data indicating page numbers of one or more pages that are replacement pages of the document or inserted pages of the document, displaying a user interface including a plurality of selectable items, wherein each corresponds to one or more pages and indicating whether the pages are replacement pages or inserted pages, receiving a user input selecting one of the selectable items, extracting data from the document data, with reference to the page management data, of the one or more of pages corresponding to the item selected through the user interface, and outputting the extracted data. | 08-27-2015 |
20150242369 | DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND PROGRAM - A document data distribution server includes a storage unit, a communication unit configured to receive document data of a document, image data of an image added to the document, and a request for integrated document data, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to compress the document data and control the storage unit to store the compressed document data when the communication unit receives the document data, control the storage unit to store the image data when the communication unit receives the image data, generate, as the integrated document data, data of a first layer that includes the compressed document data and data of a second layer to be superimposed on the first layer, that includes the image data of the added image, and control the communication unit to output the integrated document data, when the communication unit receives the request. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244800 | DISPLAY APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS A SCREEN SYNCHRONIZED WITH A SCREEN OF ANOTHER APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to periodically receive synchronization information for synchronizing a screen of the display unit with a screen of another display apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a first screen corresponding to the received synchronization information when the control unit is not carrying out a predetermined operation, and a second screen that does not correspond to the synchronization information when the control unit is carrying out the predetermined operation. | 08-27-2015 |