Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Ken Saito

Masayuki Ishibashi

Masafumi Miyazawa

Tatsuhiko Sone

Tomohiko Hasegawa

Satoshi Tanimoto

Toyoshi Adachi

Yoshi Hirasawa

Thanasegaran Subana

A server includes a storage device configured to store information on a plurality of administrators for a first service provided using a registered device and a plurality of pieces of authority information for using the first service in association with each other, a receiving device configured to receive, from a terminal device of a user of the first service in which specific authority information among the plurality of pieces of authority information is stored, information on an unregistered specific device and the specific authority information, and a registering device configured to register information on a specific administrator that is associated with the specific authority information received from the terminal device among the information on the plurality of administrators stored in the storage device and the information on the unregistered specific device in association with each other.

Server and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a first network including the communication apparatus and a first device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a second network including the communication apparatus and a second device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to determine a target IP address. Determining the target IP address includes identifying a particular IP address, which is an IP address of the communication apparatus used in the second type network. Determining the target IP address includes generating the target IP address to be within a particular range using the particular IP address. The particular range is a range of IP addresses that are not available in the second type network. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to assign the target IP address to the first device.

Communication apparatus, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for determining IP addresses for use in different networks

A server has a controller configured to perform obtaining, from the administrator's device, a first request for information associated with an administrator of the communication device, transmitting, in response to the first request, management information associated with the administrator, to the administrator's device, obtaining the management information transmitted by the terminal device based on the management information received by the administrator's device, obtaining, from the terminal device, an information request for information for use of the communication device, second transmitting, to the terminal device, authentication information for use of the communication device, obtaining the authentication information from the communication device, the authentication information obtained from the communication device being information transmitted by the communication based on the authentication information received by the terminal device, and associating, based on acquisition of the authentication information, the management information obtained from the terminal device with identification information of the communication device.

Server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for communication system for performing authentication using authentication information obtained from communication device and based on authentication information received by terminal device

A server includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions therein, the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the server to: transmit, in a case where the first function information is received from the specific device, the first authentication information to the specific device; receive, in a case where the first authentication information is input to a first function execution device after the first authentication information is transmitted to the specific device, the first authentication information from the first function execution device; and execute, in a case where the first authentication information is received from the first function execution device, a first enabling process for enabling the first function in the first function execution device, wherein the first function is identified by the first function information in the memory associated with the first authentication information.

Non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions, communication system, and server

A server is configured to perform obtaining a first request for information associated with an administrator of a communication device from an administrator's device, transmitting management information associated with the administrator to a management device in response to the first request, obtaining an information request for information to be used by the communication device therefrom, transmitting authentication information to use the communication device thereto, obtaining the authentication information and the management information from the terminal device, the authentication information obtained from the terminal device being information transmitted by the terminal device based on the authentication information received by the communication device, the management information obtained from the terminal device being information to be transmitted by the terminal device based on the management information received by the management device, and associating the management information obtained from the terminal device with identification information of the communication device.

Server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for communication system including an administrator's device, a terminal device, a communication device, and a controller having hardware

According to aspects of the present disclosure, in a memory of an MFP, information indicating that an additional function, which is inactivated when shipped from a factory, is activated or inactivated is stored. The MFP starts a trial mode in which trial of the additional function is activated, then the additional function becomes activated within an effective period of the trial mode. The MFP is configured to receive an input of setting information used for the additional function, store the input setting information in the memory and execute a process of the additional function in accordance with the setting information. Further, when the trial mode is terminated, the MFP initializes the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is inactivated, but does not initialize the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is activated.

Image processing system and image processing apparatus utilizing trial mode

A server includes an email receiver, a memory controller, a first generator, and an email transmitter. The email receiver receives, from an external device, a first email including image data, a first email address, and a second email address. The memory controller stores identification information in association with the second email address. The first generator generates first print data representing a first print image. The first print image includes a first partial image represented by the image data and a second partial image representing an image corresponding to the identification information. The email transmitter transmits a second email including scanned data. The scanned data represents a scanned image. The second email further includes, as a destination address, the second email address associated with the identification information corresponding to the second partial image included in the scanned image.

Server for email print and scan functions, and computer program for server

A server may receive a first e-mail including a first image file from a first external device and send a first print request to a first printer. After the first e-mail has been received from the first external device, the server may receive a second e-mail including a second image file from a second external device. The server may, in a case where the second e-mail is received from the second external device, determine whether the second e-mail was generated by using the first e-mail. The server may, in a case where it is determined that the second e-mail was not generated by using the first e-mail, send a second print request to the first printer. In a case where it is determined that the second e-mail was generated by using the first e-mail, the second print request may not be sent to the first printer.

Server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for server

A first server may receive error information from a communication device at a predetermined timing, send error receipt information to a second server. The second server may send destination information to the first server, the destination information indicating a destination in the second server to which the first server is to send a changing signal in response to the state of the communication device being changed from the error state to a non-error state. The first server may send the changing signal to the second server by using the destination information. The second server may identify from a memory first data to be sent to the communication device, send first relation information related to the identified first data to the first server. The first server may send to the communication device first instruction information corresponding to the first relation information.

Communication system, first server, second server, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for first server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for second server

A control device receives an email including a header part and a body part. A first file image represented by a first file is inserted in the body part. In a case where the body part includes a text different from the first file image, the control device supplies first print data for printing a first print image on a first print medium to the print executing unit. The first print image includes the text, the first file image, and header information which is at least a part of information included in the header part. In a case where the body part does not include the text, the control device supplies second print data for printing a second print image on a second print medium to the print executing unit. The second print image includes the file image but does not include the header information.

Control device configured to cause print executing unit to print and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer readable instructions for control device

A server may establish a session with a function execution device via the Internet, the session being for executing server-push communication, the function execution device being capable of executing at least a facsimile function, receive first image data from a terminal device via the Internet, and in a case where the first image data is received from the terminal device, send facsimile request information to the function execution device via the Internet by using the session, the facsimile request information being for requesting a facsimile transmission of an image corresponding to the first image data.

Sever for sending facsimile request information to function execution device by using server-push communication

An information processing device includes: a non-volatile storage; a communication interface; a processor; and a memory. The non-volatile storage is configured to store a private key. The memory stores computer-readable instructions therein. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to perform: acquiring the private key from the non-volatile storage; acquiring a certificate from a specific external device via the communication interface, the certificate including a public key corresponding to the private key, and the specific external device being different from the information processing device; converting specific data using the private key to generate converted specific data, the converting including one of encrypting the specific data and decrypting the specific data encrypted using the public key; and outputting the certificate.

Information processing device that processes information using private key and public key

A server may receive a target e-mail address from a terminal device; store in the memory the target e-mail address and authentication information in association with each other; send a first e-mail including the target e-mail address, as a destination address, and the authentication information; receive the authentication information from the first communication device; specify the target e-mail address associated with the authentication information in the memory; and execute a predetermined process by using the target e-mail address, the predetermined process being a process which is necessary for the server or the first communication device to send a second e-mail including the target e-mail address, as a destination address, and related information related to the first communication device.

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Tokoname, Japan

Ken Saito