Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201704 | OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAM INSTALLATION SUPPORT METHOD - The invention provides a technique that can make, when a driver program for controlling office equipment from an external apparatus is installed in the external apparatus, work for the installation simple and easy regardless of a positional relation between the office equipment and the external apparatus. | 08-21-2008 |
20090106319 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A technique that improves convenience in accessing data stored in a predetermined memory area is provided. | 04-23-2009 |
20100141981 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 06-10-2010 |
20100188699 | PRINT JOB MANAGING SERVER, PRINT JOB MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE METHOD - The present invention provides a technique capable of preventing, in a system that transmits a print job from a network terminal to a printing apparatus through a print job managing server, useless consumption of a storage area of the printing apparatus and an unnecessary increase in traffic in a network. A print job managing server includes: a transmission-destination-information acquiring unit configured to acquire job transmission destination information for specifying at least one printing apparatus that is a job transmission destination associated in advance with information concerning a transmission source of a print job; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job to the printing apparatus, which is the job transmission destination, on the basis of the acquired job transmission destination information. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188711 | TRANSFERRED DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, TRANSFERRED DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Management of a transferred document in a unit of the number of copies is realized, if first transfer management information indicating information concerning transfer processing applied to an original document in the past is included in image data of the original document, the first transfer management information is acquired. Second transfer management information, which is obtained by adding information concerning transfer processing performed on the basis of the acquired image data to content indicated by the acquired first transfer management information, is separately generated according to the number of copies of transferred documents obtained by transferring the original document such that the second transfer management information is peculiar to each of the transferred documents. To a transferred document obtained by the transfer processing based on the acquired image data, the second transfer management information generated in association with the transferred document is granted. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188712 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image corresponding to input data on a sheet; and a CPU configured to determine, if the image is formed on the sheet, whether authority information concerning treatment of the image is included in the input data and cause. If the authority information is included, the image forming unit forms information concerning a license on the sheet. The information concerning the license is acquired by communication with a server that permits use of the input data based on the authority information. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188713 | SCAN IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A scan image management apparatus configured to manage scan image data acquired by scanning an original document, the scan image management apparatus includes: an ID-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, with a CPU, ID information of a portable recording medium recorded in the portable recording medium; and a use-information recording unit configured to record, with the CPU, the ID information acquired by the ID-information acquiring unit and information for specifying an original document, which is a reading source of scan image data that should be recorded in the portable recording medium, which is an acquisition source of the ID information, in association with each other. | 07-29-2010 |
20100220349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and performs a private print process according to a request from an authenticated user. When the user requests interruption of the private print which is now performed or it is detected that the user has left a place near the image forming apparatus while the private print is being performed, the image forming apparatus interrupts the private print which is now performed and stores a print state at the interruption time. Further, the image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and re-starts the private print which is interrupted in response to a re-start request from the authenticated user. | 09-02-2010 |
20110317203 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 12-29-2011 |