Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hirohisa Saitoh

Tohru Sasaki

Makoto Sasaki

Takuya Mori

Tomohiro Kuroyanagi

Yukinori Ishii

Junki Aoki

Atsushi Okazato

Mie Watanabe

Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Katsumi Tanaka

Koichiro Maemura

Fumiyoshi Kittaka

Shunsuke Watanabe

Takashi Toriumi

Yasunori Tsukioka

Yuka Konno

Tatsuo Nishimura

An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.

Cooperative system, information processing apparatus, and computer program product

An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus. The second processor stores the specific operating information in the volatile memory until the second transmitter transfers the generated specific operating information to the master apparatus based on the request transferred by the first transmitter in the master apparatus if the specific operating information is generated.

Operating information storing system, operating information storing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an operating information storing method for storing information from volatile memory to non-volatile memory

An information processing apparatus stores function information that identifies, for each one of a plurality of functions, one or more devices capable of performing the function, receives a user instruction for executing a job from a first device of the plurality of devices, the user instruction instructing execution of at least one function that cannot be performed by the first device, identifies a second device of the plurality of devices that is capable of performing the at least one function of the user instruction using the function information, and controls the second device to transition from a power save mode to a normal operating mode, while keeping devices other than the second device to be in the power save mode.

Apparatus, system, and method of controlling power supply, and recording medium storing power supply control program

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Hirohisa Saitoh