Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204798 | PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DEFAULT PRINTER DETERMINING APPARATUS - A print job management system includes a job maintaining unit, a user default storing unit, a determining unit, and a job providing unit. The job maintaining unit stores a print job, ID information on an owner user of the print job, and model information on a job handling printer in association with each other, the job handling printer being a printing device corresponding to the print job. The user default storing unit stores ID information on a user and information on a user default printer in association with each other, the user default printer being a printing device selected as the job handling printer by default when a print job of the user is generated. The determining unit determines a specific printing device as the user default printer corresponding to a user and updates data stored in the user default storing unit when ID information on the user is input using an input device associated with the specific printing device. The job providing unit provides a print job stored in the job maintaining unit to a job handling printer corresponding to the print job. | 08-28-2008 |
20090083473 | FUNCTION-PROVIDING SYSTEM - From among identical modules stored on a module storage 112 and a module storage 212, an authenticated printing management module 130 selects the module with higher level information. For example, an ID authentication module 132 is stored in both the module storage 112 of an MFP 10 and the module storage 212 of a network interface card 11. The authenticated printing management module 130 selects the ID authentication module of the network interface card 11, in accordance with level information that represents an ID authentication module selection hierarchy. By so doing, where modules necessary for executing authenticated printing are included on both the MFP 10 and the network interface card 11, modules present on either the MFP 10 or the network interface card 11 are able to be selected appropriately for use. | 03-26-2009 |
20090193504 | Device Controller, System, and Method for Authenticated Printing - A device controller is connected with multiple terminals and with at least one input-output device via a network. The device controller has: a reception controller configured to perform first authentication according to data input from a first terminal and to cause the first terminal to obtain information on a specified series of processing based on a result of the first authentication; and an input-output controller configured to perform second authentication according to data input from a second terminal and to cause a specific input-output device selected out of the at least one input-output device to perform the specified series of processing, based on a result of the second authentication. The input-output controller allows the specific input-output device to perform the specified series of processing when the second terminal is selected in advance for the specific input-output device. | 07-30-2009 |
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20090011776 | DATA OUTPUT SYSTEM, OUTPUT CONTROL TERMINAL, PROGRAM TO BE APPLIED TO OUTPUT CONTROL TERMINAL, AND DATA OUTPUT METHOD - The invention provides a data output system which can control a printer in accordance with the position of a user without providing a mobile terminal and the printer with special devices, which can reduce the processing load on the mobile terminal, which can ensure the convenience of the user when using the printer, and which avoids inconvenience as a result of incorrect settings by the user. The invention can include a print control terminal that obtains mobile terminal position information from a relay station. When the distance between the mobile terminal position specified by the obtained mobile terminal position information and the printer position specified by printer position information from a storage device is less than a predetermined value, a print command and corresponding print data are transmitted to a printer PR in response to a request from a mobile terminal. | 01-08-2009 |
20090043905 | Portable terminal and data output control system - The present invention provides a portable terminal and data output control system suitably used for readily obtaining detailed information on a network. The invention can include a data output control terminal communicably connects a user-owned portable terminal, printing devices situated at various locations, and WWW servers, via the Internet. Data printing requests can be received from the portable terminal, data relating to the data printing request can be obtained from a WWW server, one of the printing devices is selected, and the obtained data is output to the selected printing device. The portable terminal can obtain data from the WWW server, display the obtained data on an LCD and append a data printing request item at the end of the display data for display on the LCD, and in the event that the displayed data printing request item is selected, sends a data printing request to the data output control terminal. | 02-12-2009 |