Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Manabu Iwasaki

Kazunori Katakura

Shin Ohtake

Akira Tsuboyama

Tomoyuki Ohno

Hidemasa Mizutani

Hideo Mori

Hiroyuki Hasegawa

Kazumi Suga

Takeshi Makita

Ryoji Matsumura

Yasuhiro Maruyama

Naoya Konita

Hirochika Shionoiri

Shinji Akahira

Fumihisa Suzuki

Yoshinari Yoshino

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, when a user posts information on a social networking service (SNS) that is related to a request for use of an apparatus, grant the user an authority to use the apparatus, the SNS being a service in which participants exchange information, the user being a participant of the SNS, the apparatus being a participant of the SNS and having a trust relationship with another participant who has a trust relationship with the user, trust relationships being relationships in which information is exchanged on the SNS only between limited participants.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming system includes a user terminal that includes a terminal-side processor and an image forming apparatus that includes an apparatus-side processor. In response to receiving an instruction to transmit a print request to the image forming apparatus from a user, the terminal-side processor is configured to hold the print request instead of transmitting the print request to the image forming apparatus and is configured to transmit user information indicating the user to the image forming apparatus. The apparatus-side processor is configured to transmit a transmission-request signal to the user terminal in response to detecting, on a basis of the user information, that the user comes near the image forming apparatus. The terminal-side processor is configured to transmit the print request held by the terminal-side processor to the image forming apparatus in response to receiving the transmission-request signal.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for processing print request based on position of user

An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to delete a preregistered user, a storage unit that stores related information that relates to a process that the user executes on the information processing device itself, and a deletion unit that deletes the related information stored in the storage unit corresponding to a user targeted for deletion received by the reception unit.

Information processing device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program to execute process for processing information

There is provided an image forming apparatus. A storage unit stores a second table tabulating a usage amount when a user uses an apparatus for each identifier for tabulation separately from a first table in which user information is registered for each identifier for authentication of the user. A reception unit receives a user identifier. A registration unit registers the user identifier in the second table as an identifier for tabulation, when the received user identifier establishes an authentication by a verification in the identifier for authentication registered in the first table, and is not registered in the second table.

Image forming apparatus

A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication. The image forming apparatus includes an authorization information acquiring unit that acquires the access authorization information by the proximity communication, and a print data acquiring unit that sends the acquired access authorization information to the print service system, is authorized to access the holding unit, and acquires the print data.

Print system, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, print service system, and storage medium for authorizing access to print data held by a print service system

An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and a notifying unit. The acquiring unit acquires print data from an external apparatus via a network. The print data is generated by the external apparatus from document data received from a client apparatus. The determining unit determines whether or not the acquired print data is a dummy job or an actual job. The notifying unit notifies failure information when print data of the actual job is not acquired within a period after print data which is determined to be the dummy job is acquired. The failure information indicates a failure occurring in the process in which the external apparatus receives the document data from the client apparatus, or in the process in which the print data is generated from the document data in the external apparatus. The period satisfies a predetermined condition.

Image forming apparatus, image processing system, and method

A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of the image forming apparatus in a printing service system from the image forming apparatus by a short-range communication; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printing service system, a setting request which contains the identification information of the image forming apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit and identification information of a user in the printing service system and which is a request for making a setting for permitting the user to use the image forming apparatus; and the image forming apparatus includes a holding unit that holds the identification information of the image forming apparatus in the printing service system in such a form that the identification information can be acquired by the acquiring unit of the information processing apparatus.

Printing system, information processing apparatus, computer readable medium, and image forming apparatus for providing printing services over a network

A server device includes a first accepting unit, a converting unit, a notifying unit, and a providing unit. The first accepting unit accepts a specification from a specifying device that specifies first content. In a case where a data format of the first content indicated by the specification is not a certain data format in which data is capable of being output by an output device, the converting unit converts the data format of the first content to the certain data format, thereby generating second content having the certain data format, and stores the second content. The notifying unit notifies the specifying device of a storage site of the second content. In a case where the output device requests to get content from the storage site of the second content by using information acquired from the specifying device, the providing unit provides the second content to the output device.

Server device, output system, server method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing system including an information processing device connected to a first communication network, a terminal device connected to the first communication network, and a server device connected to a second communication network. The server device includes a receiving unit, a first request unit, and a providing unit. The receiving unit receives an instruction from the terminal device to provide the information processing device with a predetermined service. The first request unit presents a test to the information processing device to authenticate whether or not the information processing device is being operated by a human. The providing unit provides the information processing device with the service in accordance with the instruction. The terminal device includes an instruction unit and a response unit. The instruction unit sends the instruction to the server device. The response unit makes a response to the test on behalf of the information processing device.

Information processing system, information processing device, server device, and method

A printing apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a first obtaining section, a second obtaining section, and a retrieving section. The first memory stores information concerning a registrant who has registered the printing apparatus as a print destination with a holding apparatus. The second memory stores information concerning an instructor who provides an instruction instructing the holding apparatus to hold print data that is to be used in printing performed by the printing apparatus. The first obtaining section obtains obtainment information. The second obtaining section obtains print-data identification information. The retrieving section retrieves, from the obtainment information, obtainment information which includes the print-data identification information and which is to be used to obtain print data that is held by the holding apparatus in accordance with the instruction and that is to be used in printing performed by the printing apparatus.

Secure cloud based printing

A liquid discharging head cartridge that prevents a discharging head from being damaged due to exposure to liquid held in a liquid container during storage including the distribution period of a liquid discharging head cartridge, and ensures the reliability of the liquid discharging operation by the discharging head. An ink jet head cartridge includes an ink blocking member that is provided in the middle of an ink flow path and blocks ink supply to a recording head. The ink held in an ink container does not enter a section of the ink flow path between the ink blocking member and the recording head due to blockage by the ink blocking member.

Liquid discharging head cartridge

A display apparatus has a plurality unit pixels each divided into a least three sub-pixels for displaying a halftone. The at least three sub-pixels have mutually different areas, so that one sub-pixel among the at least three sub-pixels has a maximum area which does not exceed a total area of the remaining sub-pixels. As a result, it is possible to obviate a so-called linear defect occurring in a multi-level gradational display by suppressing the shift of gravity center of light spots and change in sub-pixel arrangement pattern in displaying slightly different gradation levels.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Manabu Iwasaki