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| 20090242621 | DELIVERY SYSTEM - A delivery system includes a receiving device for receiving an order from a customer, a plurality of delivering devices each of which includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order and a delivering controlling unit operable to obtain ID information associated with the recording medium, thereby realizing delivery of the recording medium associated with the ID information, a storage managing device for setting the delivering device storing the recording medium of the order received by the receiving device and a reception slip producing device for obtaining, from the storage managing device, specifying information of the delivering device which stores the recording medium of said order and producing a reception slip recording the specifying information and the ID information therein. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248556 | DELIVERY SYSTEM - A delivery system has a plurality of delivering devices, each of which includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order and a delivering controlling unit operable to obtain ID information associated with the recording medium, thereby realizing delivery of the recording medium associated with the ID information, a guiding device including an ID information obtaining section for obtaining the ID information from a customer, and an information outputting section for outputting information and a guiding controlling unit for controlling said information obtaining section and the information outputting section. The guiding controlling unit includes an information sharing means for referring to the recording media stored in the plurality of storage units of the delivering device and to ID information associated with the recording media via a communicating device, a specifying section for specifying one of the delivering devices which stores the recording medium associated with the ID information, based upon information from the information sharing section, when the ID information obtaining section has obtained the ID information, a specifying information producing section for producing specifying information for specifying the delivering device specified by the specifying section, and an outputting section for outputting the specifying information to the information outputting device. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248876 | DELIVERY SYSTEM - A delivery system includes a plurality of storage units each of which has a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order, one or more feeding units for feeding the recording media stored in the storage unit to the outside, an identification (ID) information obtaining section for obtaining ID information; and a main delivering controlling unit for controlling the storage unit such that the main delivering controlling unit determines the position of a recording medium stored in the storage unit in relational association with the ID information and subsequently feeds this recording medium, when the ID information obtaining section has obtained the ID information. The main delivering controlling unit includes a storing space managing unit which obtains information on the number of a plurality of storage units connected thereto and generates management information capable of managing the storage spaces of the plurality of storage units in a collective manner. | 10-01-2009 |
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| 20090243210 | Print Order System - A print order system includes: a print forming unit that forms prints according to an order of a customer; a print delivery unit for delivering the prints to the customer that includes a plurality of storage portions wherein the prints outputted from the print forming unit can be stored; and a management unit that manages information representative of the status of each of the storage portions and the status of the prints stored therein, wherein the management unit changes the information when the prints are removed from a corresponding storage portion after a reserve period of the prints in the print delivery unit elapses, and the print delivery unit includes a notification means for enabling the customer to be notified based on the changed information in response to a print pick-up request of the customer after the reserve period elapses. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244604 | Photograph printing system - When an order reception unit receives a determination result indicating that a user who has inputted identification information is a registered user, the order reception unit receives an order for photograph printing from the user without prompting the user to input personal information. A photograph printing device then performs photograph printing in accordance with the order received by the order reception unit. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248195 | Photograph printing system - When an identification code relating to a subject order is obtained by an acquisition unit, a determination unit determines whether or not printed photographs relating to the subject order are housed in a housing unit. When the determination unit determines that the printed photographs relating to the subject order are not housed in the housing unit, the transmission unit transmits a request for calculation of an expected time to housing to a management server. A notification unit notifies a user of the expected time to housing, transmitted from the management server, as an expected time to delivery of the printed photographs relating to the subject order. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248539 | Photograph printing system - When a newly received printed photograph and an undelivered order exist in relation to an identical user, a delivery device is controlled such that the newly received printed photograph is delivered at the same time as a printed photograph relating to the undelivered order. | 10-01-2009 |
