Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kan Ishimoto

Hironori Harada

Yuji Miyata

Sunao Kawai

Hiroaki Sugiyama

Naoki Hagai

Toshiaki Mizutani

Tomomi Wakazono

Kanae Tamura

Yusuke Kida

A server receives parameter-related data and sheet information from a first terminal device, determines a printing parameter based on the parameter-related data, registers, in a storage device, the printing parameter in association with registration-sheet information indicative of a sheet indicated by the sheet information received from the first terminal device, transmits, to a second terminal device, a list of sheets indicated by registration-sheet information registered in the storage device, receives a print command from the second terminal device, generates print data by using: the image data included in the print command; and a printing parameter associated with target sheet information, and transmits the print data to a printing device. The target sheet information is registration-sheet information indicative of a sheet specified by sheet-specifying data included in the print command. The print data is used for printing an image on the sheet specified by the sheet-specifying data.

Server receiving image data from terminal device and generating print data based on image data

A controller for an imaging terminal having an imaging device and a first displaying device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform: acquiring shot image data, the shot image data being obtained by shooting a second displaying device which is a part of an apparatus, the apparatus being a target device to be shot, the second displaying device being configured to display a specific state image indicative of a current state of the apparatus; acquiring, by analyzing the shot image data, specific identification information for identifying specific relevant information associated with the specific state image; acquiring the specific relevant information by using the specific identification information; and controlling the first displaying device to display the specific relevant information.

Controller for imaging terminal

A printer may supply edit web page data to an external device for a web browser to display an edit web page. The edit web page may include a first area for displaying an object corresponding to object data to be edited. The printer may receive operation information corresponding to a first type of operation from the web browser. The printer may edit the object data in response to the operation information. The printer may send update information for updating a displaying content within the edit web page to the web browser. The printer may receive a first type of print instruction from the web browser. The printer may perform a print process using the object data stored in the storing unit upon receiving the first type of print instruction.

Printer

A terminal device configured to be connectable with a plurality of accessory devices and a server configured to store a firmware package, may include a processor, and a memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the terminal device to perform functions. The functions may include a function of receiving the firmware package from the server, a function of storing the firmware package received from the server into the memory, a function of providing the stored firmware package to a first one of the plurality of accessory devices to install the firmware package therein, and a function of providing the stored firmware package to the other of the plurality of accessory devices to which the same firmware package is applied as the first one, to install the firmware package therein.

Terminal device for providing firmware package by being connectable with plurality of accessory devices and a server

A communication apparatus obtains first identification information of a particular device, obtains a particular IP address assigned to the particular device, attempts a unicast communication with the particular device by using the particular IP address, determines whether the unicast communication fails; generates a new IP address when the unicast communication fails, and broadcasts a setting packet to a network causes the receiving device to assign the new IP address to the receiving device.

Communication apparatus and storing medium

A communication system is provided with an information processing device, and a management device capable of updating old data stored in the information processing device by outputting new data to the information processing device. The management device is provided with an old data input device that inputs the old data, a first new data input device that inputs the new data, an encryption device that encrypts the new data by utilizing the old data as a key, and a new data output device that outputs the new data encrypted by the encryption device to the information processing device. The information processing device is provided with an old data storage that stores the old data, a second new data input device that inputs the encrypted new data output by the management device, a decryption device that decrypts the encrypted new data by utilizing the old data as a key, and an updating device that updates the old data stored in the old data storage to the new data decrypted by the decryption device.

Communication system for updating old data with new data

A communication system includes an information processing device and a management device including a challenge input device, an encryption device, and a combination data output device. The challenge input device inputs challenge data output by the information processing device. The encryption device creates combination data including the challenge data and the predetermined data, and encrypts the combination data in units of blocks. The encryption device creates the combination data such that at least one block of the combination data includes both at least a part of the challenge data and at least a part of the predetermined data. The combination data output device outputs the combination data encrypted by the encryption device to the information processing device. The information processing device is provided with a challenge output device, a challenge storage, a combination data input device, a decryption device, and a data utilizing device.

Communication system for communicating data utilizing challenge data

An administration device comprising a first acquisition unit and a second acquisition unit is presented. The first acquisition unit sequentially acquires an M1 type of object information from a first device by sequentially making requests to the first device for N1 types of object information, which includes the M1 type of object information. The second acquisition unit newly acquires the M1 type of object information from the first device by making a request to the first device for the M1 type of object information, without sequentially making requests to the first device. When the model information of the second device matches that of the first device, the second acquisition unit acquires the M1 type of object information from the second device by making a request to the second device for the M1 type of object information, without sequentially making requests to the second device.

Administration device for administering devices by acquiring object information therefrom

A telephone apparatus that can be connected to both an IP network and a public switched telephone network, the telephone apparatus includes: a microphone unit, a speaker unit, an operation unit that is operated by a user and a call control unit. The call control unit includes a call processing unit and a relay unit. The relay unit includes a call request transmission section; a conversion section; an analog voice data transmission section; and a digital voice data transmission section. Another telephone apparatus that can be connected to the IP network can perform a voice data communication with a public line telephone apparatus connected to the public switched telephone network, via the above-described telephone apparatus.

Telephone apparatus and computer readable medium

A device management system, a device, and a management apparatus are provided. The device management system includes a plurality of devices that are coupled to a network; and a management apparatus that is coupled to the network. The devices include a first device and a second device. The first device stores icon image data indicating the device and including specified information embedded therein as digital watermark information. The second device stores icon image data indicating the device but not including specified information. The management apparatus includes a response information receiving unit; a response detecting unit that detects whether the specified information is embedded as the digital watermark information in the icon image data; and a device specifying unit that specifies a device as a first device or a second device.

Device management system, device, and computer readable medium

An information-processing apparatus which is capable of transmitting device identifiers of devices connected with LANs to terminals without using a broadcast command is provided. A server is connected with a World Area Network. A managing terminal and printers are connected with a LAN. The server receives a device identifier of the printer connected with any one of the LANs. The server receives an inquiry for a device identifier from a terminal connected with any one of the LANs. The server stores appended information, which is appended to the device identifier while the device identifier is transferred to the server, in a manner that the appended information is associated with the device identifier. The server transmits to the terminal the device identifier whose appended information as stored in a storage coincides with the appended information that is appended to the inquiry while the inquiry is transferred to the server. The managing terminal can obtain the device identifier of the printer connected with the same LAN as the managing terminal itself by transmitting the inquiry to the server.

Information-processing apparatus and program thereof

An output system comprising an information reproduction device and an electronic device is provided. In the system, the electronic device comprises a first connection interface through which a command signal is transmitted and a reproduced signal is inputted, a command output unit to transmit the command signal for instructing execution of a reproduction process in response to occurrence of a predetermined event, and an output control unit to output reproduced information which is reproduced by the information reproduction device and corresponds to the reproduced signal. The information reproduction device comprises a second connection interface to interface the information reproduction device with the first connection interface, a storage unit storing information to be subjected to the reproduction process, a reproduction unit to execute the reproduction process, and a reproduction signal output unit to cause the reproduction unit to execute the reproduction process and to transmit the reproduced signal.

Output system and device for information reproduction

A server acquires the total number of pages printed per hour and the number of pages printed per hour by each user on each printer in a network printing system in order to find printers whose hourly number of printed pages exceeds a load limit. The server also looks for printers having few printed pages per hour that do not exceed the load limit and issues a notification advising the user who is printing the largest volume on a printer exceeding the load limit to switch to a printer that prints few pages. Accordingly, a high concentration of printing found on a few printers can be moderated, reducing user wait time and excessive printer load.

Information processing device for balancing printing loads connected to a plurality of printing devices, network printing system for a plurality of printing devices, and computer program for information processing device connected to a pluarlity of printing devices

A wireless network system having an access point, and wireless devices capable of wireless communication with the access point, each wireless device being capable of wireless communication with the other wireless device in an ad hoc mode without via the access point, wherein the access point includes a registrar setup portion to set up any of the wireless devices as a registrar which permits wireless communication between each wireless device and the access point, and each wireless device includes: a memory portion for storing identifiers of the wireless devices; a data-supply requesting portion operable in the ad hoc mode to transmit to the other wireless device a data-supply request packet requesting the other wireless device to transmit the identifier of the other wireless device stored in its memory portion; a request replying portion operated in response to the data-supply request packet to transmit to the other wireless device a data-supply-request reply packet including an own identifier; a reply-data receiving portion operable to receive the data-supply-request reply packet; an identifier retrieving portion operable to retrieve the identifier from the received data-supply-request reply packet, and store the retrieved identifier in its memory portion; and a registrar registering portion operable after the wireless device is set up as the registrar by the registrar setup portion () of the access point, to register the other wireless device the identifier of which is stored in the memory portion, as the wireless device which is permitted to effect wireless communication with the access point.

Wireless network system, and wireless device included in the system

A network terminal device is configured to include a plurality of network applications that generate process instructions to cause devices on a network to execute processes, a storage unit that stores common network configuration information of the plurality of network applications, and a network terminal device where each of the plurality of network applications is capable of reading out the common network configuration information from the storage unit and reflecting the same in its own network configuration. Each application may transmit the process instructions to the device on the network based on the network configuration.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kan Ishimoto