| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100095355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to the present invention, a workflow desired by a user can be easily implemented without making any change or installing any application program in an image processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit which generates setting information of a button related to execution of a work item, which is included in a screen displayed on an image processing apparatus according to a user, based on an activity corresponding to the work item and information of a user, who can execute the work item, acquired based on a role allocated to the work item, when the work item is generated that represents a work executed by a person in charge in an activity which is a work unit of a workflow executed in the image processing apparatus; and a transmission unit which transmits the setting information generated in the generation unit to the image processing apparatus. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100177341 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD - A method for managing a workflow executed in a workflow management system which includes a client apparatus which a user instructs to perform workflow processing, a workflow management server configured to execute the workflow based on an instruction from the client apparatus, and an image processing apparatus which includes the user-specific portal screen, and has a function of registering or deleting an operation button for executing scanning and transmission or printing displayed on the portal screen based on an instruction from the workflow management server. The method includes aggregating setting information about a plurality of the operation buttons, storing the aggregated operation button setting information and a plurality of work items corresponding to the aggregated operation button setting information by associating each other, and registering an operation button for executing an aggregated work item in the portal screen based on the aggregated operation button setting information. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110035785 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an information processing system which allows an application on a Web server to execute authentication processing of a user in an information processing apparatus and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, in an information processing system of this invention, a Web application of a Web server requests a service provider of an MFP to execute authentication processing. The service provider instructs a login application to execute an authentication function, and transmits generated authentication information to the Web application. | 02-10-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080259382 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about an other image processing apparatus different than the image processing apparatus that operates with the image processing apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire function information indicating a function provided by a first image processing apparatus, and a control unit. In the control unit, in a case that a comparison result of the comparing unit indicates that the first image processing apparatus includes at least one function not provided by the image processing apparatus, information about the first image processing apparatus is stored in the storage unit, and in a case that a comparison result of the comparing unit indicates that the first image processing apparatus doesn't include at least one function not provided by the image processing apparatus, information about the first image processing apparatus is not stored in the storage unit. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080273225 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing system which can easily change settings on a linking image processing apparatus when a linked image processing apparatus is replaced to result in changes in setting information such as an IP address and functions of the image processing apparatus. The image processing system comprises an image processing apparatus, and another image processing apparatus which performs a processing through linkage with the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus receives configuration information including identification information which identifies an apparatus and function information which represents functions of the apparatus, compares the configuration information received by the receiving unit with configuration information about the image processing apparatus, and reports to the another image processing apparatus that there is a difference in the identification information or in the identification information, as a result of the comparison made by the comparison unit. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090037516 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is disclosed, as an example, an output information generation method in an information processor capable of synthesizing multiple data in insertion areas defined in form information to generate output information, the method comprising: a registration step of registering multiple data with priorities and multiple form information having form information corresponding to the respective priorities in a storage unit; a direction step of directing generation of output information by specifying any of the multiple data and any of the form information stored in the storage unit and directing generation of output information; and a generation step of selecting form information corresponding to the priority of each of the data specified by the direction step and synthesizing the multiple data into the insertion areas in the selected form information to generate output information. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090300001 | SERVER APPARATUS, CATALOG PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Some embodiments of the present invention provide that a web application server reads catalog information, and selects grouping data. Then, the web application server sets web-application-server grouping. When an instruction on execution of grouping is issued from a client PC, the web application server registers catalog data items for individual groups. When association data is selected by the client PC, the web application server registers association information to a database. | 12-03-2009 |