Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110026064 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image processing system including a user management unit that manages login and issues an authentication ticket to an image forming apparatus; a task request unit that makes an image processing request with an addition of the authentication ticket; a detection unit that detects whether the image processing request is authorized; a task processing unit that makes the image processing request with an addition of user information accompanied by identification information; a task management unit that stores a task in a task queue and receives an inquiry about the task; one or more image processing units that acquire the processible image processing request to perform the image processing; a storage unit that stores image data processed by the one or more image processing units; and an acquisition unit that specifies a location where the processed image data are stored and acquires the image data. | 02-03-2011 |
20110202502 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A disclosed workflow management method includes a workflow starting step of determining a workflow based on one or more tags attached to a workflow document, attaching a status tag and a participant tag to the workflow document, and starting the workflow; and a review/approval step of requesting review and/or approval of the workflow document based on the status tag and the participant tag and updating the status tag and the participant tag after the review and/or approval. | 08-18-2011 |
20110276985 | NOTIFICATION PROCESSOR THAT NOTIFIES INFORMATION AND POSITION INFORMATION MANAGER - To provide an apparatus that transmits information, which includes a storage unit that stores notification rule information in which transmission destination information is associated with notification type information, a reception processor that receives predetermined information from a detector that detects a mobile information storage medium attached to an object, a notification information generating unit that obtains information specified by the notification type information in the notification rule information based on the predetermined information, to generate notification information from obtained information, and a notification unit that transmits the notification information to a transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information associated with the notification type information that is used when the notification information is generated. | 11-10-2011 |
20120272251 | Notification Processor That Notifies Information and Position Information Manager - To provide an apparatus that transmits information, which includes a storage unit that stores notification rule information in which transmission destination information is associated with notification type information, a reception processor that receives predetermined information from a detector that detects a mobile information storage medium attached to an object, a notification information generating unit that obtains information specified by the notification type information in the notification rule information based on the predetermined information, to generate notification information from obtained information, and a notification unit that transmits the notification information to a transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information associated with the notification type information that is used when the notification information is generated. | 10-25-2012 |
20130194633 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DATA CONVERSION METHOD - An information processing system, which is implemented by one or more information processing apparatuses, includes an electronic data receiving unit configured to receive electronic data via a network from an external apparatus; and a data conversion unit configured to identify at least one of an output setting and a data format corresponding to attribute information of a user operating the external apparatus by referring to a storage unit storing at least one of the output setting and the data format in association with the attribute information of the user, and convert the received electronic data into output data according to at least one of the output setting and the data format. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198211 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DATA CONVERSION METHOD - An information processing apparatus may include a plurality of converting units respectively configured to execute a predetermined data conversion from one data format to another data format, and a control unit. The control unit may coordinate the converting units based on a conversion request to convert electronic data in a first data format into electronic data in a second data format, in order to make the converting units execute a data conversion from the first data format to the second data format. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198806 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An information processing system, which is implemented by one or more information processing apparatuses, includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a first user identifier and a first organization identifier via a network from an external apparatus and a first authentication unit configured to perform authentication based on the first user identifier and the first organization identifier by referring to a storage unit storing one or more second user identifiers in association with second organization identifiers. The first authentication unit performs authentication by identifying an organization identifier matching the first organization identifier within the second organization identifiers and identifying a user identifier matching the first user identifier within the second user identifiers associated with the matching organization identifier. | 08-01-2013 |
20140122349 | SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A system includes a service providing system that provides a service to be linked with an apparatus; and a license information issuance system that issues and manages license information not associated with any service subscriber. The service providing system includes a first registration unit that receives an organization registration request including first license information from a terminal device operated by a user of an organization, and registers the organization and the user when the first license information in the organization registration request is not associated with any service subscriber; and a second registration unit that receives a service registration request including second license information from the terminal device operated by the registered user, and registers a service corresponding to the second license information to allow the organization to use the service, when the second license information in the service registration request is not associated with any service subscriber. | 05-01-2014 |