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20080231891 | CLIENT APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A client apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus via a network includes a collecting unit configured to collect module configuration information regarding at least one device driver installed in the client apparatus, a module configuration information transmitting unit configured to transmit the module configuration information collected by the collecting unit to the server apparatus, a complementary data receiving unit configured to receive, from the server apparatus, complementary data compensating for a difference between the module configuration information of the client apparatus and module configuration information of the server apparatus, and a complementing unit configured to complement the module configuration information of the client apparatus based on the complementary data received by the complementary data receiving unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20100118332 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The inconsistencies of the function included in the print setting resolving process is conducted, and information to indicate that the aforementioned print setting is not been changed is added. Then, based on the added information, it is determined whether the information regarding the print setting is changed or not. Here, in case the data related to print setting is added and also the print setting has not been changed, then the process is not conducted. Moreover, in case the data related to print setting is not added or the print setting has been changed, the process is conducted. | 05-13-2010 |
20100195131 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - To reduce the workload involved in rearranging and printing a Web page in a desired layout, style sheets for realizing desired print layouts are saved in association with the URLs of Web pages, and when subsequently printing a Web page having the same domain name or a similar URL, a print layout to which a saved style sheet has been applied is presented as a candidate, and applied when printing the Web page. | 08-05-2010 |
20100301111 | DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING DENSITY OF BARCODE - The accuracy of reading a barcode embedded in a printed document is maintained, and at the same time, the amount of toner and the like consumed is reduced. When document information read by scanning is analyzed and the density of the document information is higher than a predetermined threshold vale, that is, when the printed document has a space enough to contain the barcode, the density of the barcode is set such that the density of the barcode is decreased as compared with a case where the density of the document information is lower than the predetermined threshold value. By changing the size of dots and the distance between the dots and thus decreasing the density of the barcode, it is possible to reduce the amount of toner and the like consumed. Then, the set barcode is synthesized with the document information, and the synthesized image is output. | 12-02-2010 |
20110075207 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus is disclosed which spools data received from an application in response to a printing instruction from a user, as intermediate data, controls an installation process for a printer driver compatible with a target printer which performs a printing process, passes the spooled intermediate data to the installed printer driver, and transmits a print job generated from the passed intermediate data by using the installed printer driver to the target printer. | 03-31-2011 |
20110176172 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to determine, when a user inputs the number of images to be laid out on one side of a print sheet and an image magnification rate with an input operation via an input screen, an image size based on an image reduction rate for laying out the input number of images on the print sheet and the input image magnification rate, and generate print data for laying out images having the determined size on one side of the print sheet. | 07-21-2011 |
20110299126 | PRINT SYSTEM, CLIENT, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To decrease workloads caused by printing from a Web application and to provide a method for eliminating limitations of computers that can be used, a Web browser accesses a print management server based on an address transmitted from a Web application server in response to a print instruction, receives a print setting screen of an image forming apparatus that prints document data from a print management server, and displays the print setting screen. | 12-08-2011 |
20120263233 | DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT - The present invention provides a functional block that executes video coding and video decoding based on H. 264/AVC. The functional block includes two moving picture processing units, and a memory unit that stores therein data related to the results of processing of first plural macroblocks arranged within one row of one picture by the first moving picture processing unit. Data related to the results of processing of plural adjacent macroblocks, which are selected from the data stored in the memory unit, are transferred to the second moving picture processing unit. The second moving picture processing unit performs processing of one macroblock of second plural macroblocks arranged in the following row, using the transferred data. | 10-18-2012 |
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20100277765 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention realizes a network printing system capable of accumulating and chasing printed data. Further, by providing a job chasing function on the printer driver side, detailed setting can be done to extract history information of the job chasing function. The detailed setting to extract history information to chase a job can be done only by a specific administrator or user so that the job can be reliably chased, whereas the administrator or user can obtain desired history information. Accordingly, a precise jog chasing system can be established. | 11-04-2010 |
20110249294 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention realizes a network printing system capable of accumulating and chasing printed data. Further, by providing a job chasing function on the printer driver side, detailed setting can be done to extract history information of the job chasing function. The detailed setting to extract history information to chase a job can be done only by a specific administrator or user so that the job can be reliably chased, whereas the administrator or user can obtain desired history information. Accordingly, a precise jog chasing system can be established. | 10-13-2011 |
20120218588 | PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PRINTING MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to this invention, a printing management system which manages a log of a print job includes a creation unit which creates log information for specifying a print job on the basis of issued print job data, a save unit which saves the log information created by the creation unit in a save location corresponding to the log information in a storage unit, a determination unit which determines, in accordance with a request to access the log information saved in the save unit, whether to permit or reject the access request, and an access unit which reads log information subjected to the access request when the determination unit determines to permit the access request. | 08-30-2012 |
20120254898 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, in which an operating system (OS) is executable in such a way that a component operable based on administrator's authority can realize installation of a device driver. The information processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a peripheral device that serves as an output destination of a processing request if the processing request is received from a user via an application, and a management unit configured to control setting processing for a device driver applicable to the selected peripheral device to use the peripheral device. The management unit is configured to request a first component operable on the OS based on administrator's authority to perform setting processing for a device driver applicable to the selected peripheral device. | 10-04-2012 |
20130067462 | INSTALLATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DEVICE DRIVER - In response to a request from a client for the download installation of a device driver, device informational data that has been registered in a server and an installation set, which also has been registered in the server and includes the device driver and applications related to the device driver, are downloaded from the server to the client. On the basis of the device information data that has been downloaded from the server, the device driver and the related applications are installed in the client. After installation, post-installation processing regarding the applications related to the installed device driver is executed at the client based upon the device informational data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130094045 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first generation unit configured to generate a first print queue, and a second generation unit configured to generate a second print queue by operating a printer driver corresponding to the first print queue, wherein, after the second generation unit generates the second print queue, a printer list program for displaying printer information, which is printer-related information, displays the printer information about a printer corresponding to the first print queue and does not display the printer information about a printer corresponding to the second print queue. | 04-18-2013 |
20130235422 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and a portable terminal. The information processing apparatus generates an intermediate data format intermediate job, returns, in response to a job information request from the portable terminal, job information of a spooled intermediate job, and transmits, in response to a printing request from the portable terminal, a job generated from spooled intermediate job to an output destination identified based on information in the printing request. The portable terminal transmits a job information request to the information processing apparatus, displays a list of jobs based on received job information, and receives selection of a job to be printed from the jobs list. The portable terminal also reads information regarding an output destination from a printing apparatus by using a reading device and transmits the printing request including information of the selected job and information regarding an output destination to the information processing apparatus. | 09-12-2013 |
20130301080 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT RELAY SERVER, AND CLIENT DEVICE - A print relay server receives print data based on content, identification information of a service printer selected via a selection screen for selecting a service printer, and print setting designated via a print setting screen for designating print setting from a print service, and transfers the print data to an image formation apparatus designated as an output destination in the print setting when the received identification information of the service printer indicates a general-purpose service printer. | 11-14-2013 |
20140268227 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit and a generation unit. The display control unit displays a job selection screen which displays a plurality of print jobs. The generation unit generates a combined print job in which first and second print jobs selected by using the job selection screen are combined, wherein the display control unit displays, on the job selection screen, information about the combined print job identifiable of each file format of the first and second print jobs prior to be combined, based on information indicating the file format of the first print job and information indicating the file format of the second print job. | 09-18-2014 |
20150029527 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In a printing system, the information processing apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit which obtains hardware information of a printing apparatus at the time of installation of a printer driver associated with the printing apparatus; a unit which decides on a printer driver to be installed from among a plurality of printer drivers that are associated with the printing apparatus and differ from one another in specifications based on the hardware information; a second obtaining unit which transmits to the printing apparatus attribute information of the printer driver that has been decided on, and obtains as a response thereto a configuration file for expanding functions of the printer driver that has been decided on; and a unit which installs the printer driver that has been decided on, and performs functional expansion for the printer driver using the obtained configuration file. | 01-29-2015 |
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20090063800 | ARRANGEMENTS HAVING SECURITY PROTECTION - Access control unit sends to the access judging unit an access judging check request signal asking whether the requested address falls within one of the access-permitted areas registered in the access judging unit, the access judging unit checks whether the requested address falls within one of the access-permitted areas registered in it and returns to the access control unit an access judging check result signal indicating whether the access request is to be honored or rejected, and the access control unit permits access to the internal bus if the access judging check result signal indicates that the access request is to be honored, or rejects the access request otherwise. | 03-05-2009 |
20100146234 | ARRANGEMENTS HAVING SECURITY PROTECTION - An external bus interface method including: receiving, via an access control unit, an access request conveyed through an external bus, and judging, via an access judging unit connected to the access control unit, whether the access request is to be honored or rejected, wherein upon receiving the access request, the access control unit sends to the access judging unit an access judging check request signal asking whether the requested address falls within one of access-permitted areas registered in the access judging unit, the access judging unit checks whether the requested address falls within one of the access-permitted areas registered in it and returns to the access control unit, an access judging check result signal indicating whether the access request is to be honored or rejected, and if the access judging check result signal indicates that the access request is to be rejected, the access control unit nullifies the access request. | 06-10-2010 |