Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masahiro Wada

Shigeki Kuga

Taro Morishita

Hiroyuki Kanza

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Nobuo Nakamura

Satoshi Onishi

A print control apparatus in which a plurality of print apparatuses having a hold print function are caused to hold print data, and the print data of other print apparatuses other than a print apparatus print-instructed by a user is deleted, is provided. A print server is connected to the plurality of printers having a hold print function through a network. The print server includes a print data transmission portion that transmits print data received from a PC to printers to cause the printers to hold the print data, and a print data deletion instruction portion that, when a print notification of the print data is received from any one of the plurality of the printers, instructs other printers other than the printer to delete the print data.

Print control apparatus that acquires user position information of a portable terminal

Print control apparatus, print control system and print apparatus

A request signal requesting a response signal from an ID card is transmitted, and, when a response signal is received, it is compared with the data identifying the manager, which is stored in advance, and a determination is made as to whether or not the data identifying the manager is received. If the data is determined to be received, a timer is set, and, if there is a job being held up, the output processing of the job is executed. When it is determined that a predetermined time has elapsed, outputting is notified to be restricted, thereafter outputting is prohibited.

Data output apparatus

Method and apparatus are provided for editing input information. Input information is received from an input means (1) from which a keyword is selected for editing purposes. A low level record is located in a memory (5) which has the keyword of the input information stored therein. The low level record having the keyword stored therein is accessed to determine the location in the memory of higher level records and information types of the higher level records. The higher level records having stored therein explanatory information for the keyword in accordance with the information types of the higher level records. The higher level records are of a plurality of information types for presenting different types of explanatory information regarding the keyword, such as a definition of the keyword, a synonym for the keyword, an example usage of the keyword, etc. A display (55) is provided with an indication of the information types stored in the memory for the keyword so that a user can select a desired information type. The explanatory information associated with the desired information type is then displayed to the user, thereby facilitating the user's decision whether the keyword is properly used in the input information.

Document processing support system using keywords to retrieve

A text processing system for example a word processor includes a storage unit with two storage devices. The first storage device can store at least two character strings in an arbitrary order. The second storage device can store at least one index. Each stored index designates a predetermined one of the character strings. The indexes stored are in a predetermined order.

Text editor with memory for eliminating duplicate sentences

An element checking system for use in forward inference system is disclosed. When checking elements, each element is read out as a token and transmitted through a checking network. The element checking system includes memory for storing an element checking network. The network has a plurality of inputs for receiving the tokens one at a time, and a plurality of nodes for checking features of the received token. The system also includes working memory for storing elements, each element carrying data identifying a particular node from which the checking procedure in the networks starts. An additional memory is included which stores a pattern table including a plurality of different patterns with a pattern number assigned to each pattern, and a linking table including a pattern number and a corresponding node number for designating a starting node number for an element having a corresponding one of the plurality of patterns. Through the use of the pattern and linking table, an efficient element checking system utilizing a minimum number of nodes can be achieved.

Element checking system for use in forward inference system

A computer, in particular a word processor, is structured to enter and store Japanese symbols and character strings. The word processor includes an operator defined dictionary. To enter the new words in particular Japanese words into the operator defined dictionary, reference familiar to the operator are displayed. The reference words which are similar in linguistic form to the new words, have parts of speech which are prestored in a dictionary of the word processor. The operator obtains the parts of speech of the reference words which are comparable to the new words. Thereafter, the new words with identified parts of speech in proper form are entered into the operator defined dictionary.

System for registering new words by using linguistically comparable

An expert system having a forward inference control method in which an inference process (hereinafter referred to as trace) is displayed in consideration of the condition of a negation when the trace is displayed to verify a rule inputted to the expert system, whereby, a user can confirm that a rule is unexecutable because of the condition of the negation being not satisfied.

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Nara, Japan

Masahiro Wada