Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090070855 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a user information managing part that manages registered user information, an authentication part that performs user authentication using the registered user information managed by the user information managing part, an external authentication part that controls an external computer to perform authentication on user information input via an input interface and acquires authenticated user information from the computer when the input user information is successfully authenticated by the computer, and a registration part that registers the authenticated user information acquired by the external authentication part in the user information managing part as the registered user information. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070868 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AUTHENTICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium. | 03-12-2009 |
20100067035 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a unit that receives application information having function identification information and user identification information from an information processing apparatus and records the received application information in an application information management unit; a unit that acquires from the application information management unit a list of the application information related to the user identification information of an operator of the image forming apparatus and causes the acquired list of the application information to be displayed on a display unit; a unit that receives from the information processing apparatus setting information for the function related to the function identification information included in at least the one application information selected from the list; and a unit that executes the function related to the function identification information based on the setting information. | 03-18-2010 |
20120154842 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an address obtaining unit configured to obtain address information of a management apparatus for managing definition information of a process flow from an external storage unit; a process information obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information of a process to be performed by the image forming apparatus in the process flow from the management apparatus based on the address information; a function control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to perform the process indicated by the identification information; and a linkage unit configured to send a result of the process to the management apparatus. | 06-21-2012 |
20120210412 | Information Processor, Authentication Control Method, And Storage Medium - An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium. | 08-16-2012 |
20130036170 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a user list providing unit configured to receive device identification information from a current device connected via a network and to send, to the current device, a user list including one or more user identifiers that are stored in a storage unit in association with the received device identification information; and a program list providing unit configured to receive a user identifier that is selected at the current device from the user identifiers in the user list and to send, to the current device, a program list including sets of program information stored in the storage unit in association with the received user identifier. | 02-07-2013 |
20130254859 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AUTHENTICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium. | 09-26-2013 |
20140280445 | PROCESS FLOW DEFINITION CREATING SYSTEM, PROCESS FLOW DEFINITION CREATING DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF CREATING PROCESS FLOW DEFINITION - A process flow definition creating system provides a process flow definition to a system for executing processes in an order in accordance with the process flow definition. The process flow definition creating system includes a device list storage unit; a screen information storage unit, wherein the screen information is for displaying a first field and a second field; a display control unit that displays the parsed screen information; a setting reception unit that receives a setting for the first field and a setting for the second field, wherein the setting for the first field defines the processes and the order of the processes, and the setting for the second field defines correspondence between the processes and devices that are to execute the processes; and a definition creating unit that creates the process flow definition, based on the settings. | 09-18-2014 |
20150077776 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system comprising: a plurality of information processing apparatuses that perform a plurality of tasks defined by work flow information, wherein the work flow information is information that defines an order of the tasks and defines an information processing apparatus that assumes a host device for performing each of the tasks, one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses is definable as the host device, the information processing apparatus defined as the host device performs each of the tasks defined in the work flow information in the defined order, and one information processing apparatus selected according to a predetermined determination condition performs a task for which the work flow information defines the one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses as the host device. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077783 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a unit that receives application information having function identification information and user identification information from an information processing apparatus and records the received application information in an application information management unit; a unit that acquires from the application information management unit a list of the application information related to the user identification information of an operator of the image forming apparatus and causes the acquired list of the application information to be displayed on a display unit; a unit that receives from the information processing apparatus setting information for the function related to the function identification information included in at least the one application information selected from the list; and a unit that executes the function related to the function identification information based on the setting information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082320 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING DATA - A data processing apparatus includes a first storage that stores information pertaining to an order in which multiple process flows are executed, the execution of the multiple process flows being started by input of data and terminated by output of the data in a format usable for a user, a reception part that receives input data with respect to one of the multiple process flows, an execution part that executes the one of the multiple process flows on the input data, and a second storage that stores information indicating the one of the multiple process flows executed by the execution part. The execution part identifies a predetermined process flow to be executed with respect to the input data by referring to the first and second storages. The predetermined process flow is a process flow to be performed earliest among the multiple process flows that are not yet executed. | 03-19-2015 |