Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Other

Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Masami Yamada

Yasutaka Ito

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Hisashi Uchida

Atsushi Ohshima

Kazumi Sawayanagi

Akihiro Torigoshi

Kazuya Anezaki

Yoshiki Tokimoto

Kimie Mishima

Kenichi Takahashi

Shuji Yoneda

Kaitaku Ozawa

Katsuhiko Akita

Tomonari Yoshimura

Yuji Okamoto

Yuki Asai

Keisuke Teramoto

Masakazu Murakami

Hiroyuki Kawabata

Masahiko Matsuura

Eiichi Sano

Atsuto Hirai

Tomoo Izumi

Masahide Ueda

Atsushi Tamura

Noriaki Asamoto

Hiroyuki Yamasaki

Yoshihisa Terasaka

Hiroaki Kubo

Nobuhiro Mishima

Takahiro Ikeda

Yoshiki Yoshioka

Yoshiaki Shibuta

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Takeshi Morikawa

Shuji Iino

Hiromi Sakata

Daisuke Sakiyama

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Hidetoshi Miyamoto

Masaya Hashimoto

Yukio Hashimoto

Toshimitsu Fujiwara

Hidehiro Tabuchi

Shigeo Kurando

Hiroyuki Tsuji

Takeshi Maekawa

Yukina Hisada

Tadashi Fujioka

Yoshinobu Takemura

Koji Ujino

Satoshi Yoshida

Tetsuhisa Nakamura

Sanji Harada

Teruo Shiono

Masahiro Ihara

Takeshi Tsuyama

A management server disposed outside a firewall and supporting connection of communications between a control target device disposed inside the firewall and a cloud server disposed outside the firewall, includes a server-side session establishing portion to, based on a request from a relay device disposed inside the firewall, establish a session with the relay device, a device information acquiring portion to acquire device information about the control target device from the relay device via the established session, and an update determining portion to, in response to reception of a request of connecting to the control target device from the cloud server, determine whether to update the device information. The device information acquiring portion includes an upon-session-establishment acquiring portion to acquire the device information when a session with the relay device is established, and an upon-session-request acquiring portion to acquire the device information after updating the device information is determined.

Management server, connection support method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with connection support program

One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus. When a computer virus has been detected from the one information processing apparatus by the virus detection processing, the one information processing apparatus transmits an execution request to perform the virus detection processing to another information processing apparatus different from the one information processing apparatus among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

Information processing system controlling performance of virus detection processing at devices included in the system, and information processing apparatus and recording medium

A multifunction device integrally includes a first device and a second device. The first device has a first system, and the second system has a second system. The second device requests, in response to a predetermined command entered, a first snapshot of the first device from the first device. The first device generates the first snapshot in response to a request from the second device, and sends the first snapshot to the second device. The second device generates a second snapshot of the second device in response to the predetermined command entered, and saves, to a save destination, the first snapshot sent and the second snapshot. The first device starts the first system by using the first snapshot saved in the save destination. The second device starts the second system by using the second snapshot saved in the save destination.

Multifunction device, reboot method, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program

A maintenance support device for supporting maintenance of an apparatus includes a communication interface configured to perform communication with the apparatus through a communication cable and to feed electric power to the apparatus; and an information obtaining portion configured to obtain from the apparatus, while the apparatus is fed with the electric power, pre-replacement individual identification information and post-replacement individual identification information for a target component for replacement work on the apparatus by communication using the communication interface.

Maintenance support device, image forming apparatus, maintenance support method, and non-transitory recording medium for storing computer readable program

An image forming apparatus includes: a first communication unit configured to perform communication by a short-distance wireless method; a second communication unit having a broader communication range than the first communication unit; a storage unit configured to store data to which an access right of a first user is set; a connection information providing unit configured to, when a data providing command for providing the data from a first terminal device of the first user to another user is received, and an access request to the data is received from a second terminal device of a second user, transmit connection information for accessing the data to the second terminal device; and a data providing unit configured to transmit the data to the second terminal device by the second communication unit, when a transmission request of the data is received from the second terminal device based on the connection information.

Image forming apparatus, terminal device, data providing method, and computer program

An information processing apparatus to which a plurality of users can log in includes: a display unit configured to display an image; and a display controller configured to display personal region images corresponding to the respective users in a plurality of personal display regions at different positions in a display face of the display unit, display common images in the same common display region among the users in the display face of the display unit, and display images of data acquired on the authority to access of a corresponding user in the personal display regions to be movable, respectively, wherein when any of the users logs out, the display controller finishes displaying the image arranged in the personal display region among the data acquired on the authority to access of the user who logs out, and continues to display the image arranged in the common display region.

Information processing apparatus, conference support method, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes a main processor configured to process packets received by a wired LAN module and a wireless LAN module in a normal state and a sub processor configured to process packets received by the wired LAN module and the wireless LAN module in place of the main processor in a first power saving state in which supply of electric power to the main processor is stopped. In the first power saving state, the sub processor is configured to process a packet received by the wired LAN module by using a first combination of a MAC address and an IP address and to process a packet received by the wireless LAN module by using a second combination of a MAC address and an IP address.

Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium for selectively processing packets using a processor or a sub processor

An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a preview image of a document on a preview screen during login of a first user, a communication controller that receives a job from an external device, a determination unit that determines whether the job received from the external device is a specific type of job, and a display controller that controls display on the preview screen. When the specific type of job is received during display of the preview screen, the display controller assumes a predetermined degree or more of possibility that a second user different from the first user may approach the apparatus, and performs at least one of first display control where the preview image is automatically hidden on the preview screen and second display control where a non-display button for hiding the preview image according to a user operation is displayed on the preview screen.

Image processing apparatus and recording medium

A communication device includes a main controller and a second controller that responds, independently of the main controller, to received data based on a proxy program. The communication device also includes a storage that stores, every time data is received, a combination of attributes of the data and details of a response to the data made by the main controller. The communication device also includes a generating circuit that determines at least one pattern with which a response, independently of the main controller, is possible based on a plurality of combinations stored in the storage to generate the proxy program based on the pattern determined. The communication device also includes an applying circuit that applies the proxy program generated by the generating circuit to the second controller.

Communication device including two controllers, a method for customizing the same, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

An MFP sets an access condition for an external device with respect to a cloud box. The access condition is transmitted from the MFP to a relay device, and is registered in a memory of the relay device. When the relay device receives an access request made by the external device with respect to the MFP serving as an internal device, the relay device determines whether to permit or deny access to the MFP by comparing the access request with the access condition. When the access is permitted, the access request is transferred from the relay device to the MFP, whereas when the access is denied, the relay device notifies the external device of it.

Image processing system, image formation apparatus, and relay device

A relay device includes a first session establishing portion to establish a first communication session with a cloud server located outside a firewall, a second session establishing portion to establish a second communication session with a control target device located inside the firewall, a device information acquiring portion to acquire device information about the control target device, and a relay portion to relay a communication between the cloud server and the control target device. The relay portion includes an executability determining portion to determine whether the control target device can execute a process specified by a control command received from the cloud server, a suspending portion to suspend an output of the control command when the determination result is non-executable, and a proxy transmission portion operable, when the determination result becomes executable after the control command was put on hold, to transmit the control command to the control target device.

Relay device, image forming apparatus, relay method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with relay program

A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus.

Apparatus and method for deactivating power-saving mode, relay device, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

A controller of a management device managing a plurality of image processing apparatuses acquires ability information and device identification information from the respective image processing apparatuses; determines, based on the ability information of the respective image processing apparatuses, as an in-charge device any one of the respective image processing apparatuses for each of a plurality of protocols predetermined; for the respective protocols, causes the in-charge device determined for the protocol to respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol on behalf of the respective image processing apparatuses; and causes one or more image processing apparatuses other than the in-charge device determined for the protocol to refrain from responding to a packet by multicast of the protocol. The respective image processing apparatuses respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol if the apparatus itself is determined the in-charge device for the protocol.

Management system, image processing apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with protocol sharing program, and protocol sharing method

An information processing system comprises a user terminal and an information processing device. A remote operation screen image for remotely operating the information processing device is displayed with the user terminal so that the information processing device is operated by remote control via the user terminal. The information processing device includes: a screen image controlling part for receiving operation information from the user terminal; a contents determining part for determining if contents accessed by a browser are internal contents of the information processing device when the operation information is a process request requiring start up of the browser; and a browser controlling part for starting up a first browser on the information processing device when the internal contents are to be accessed, and sending a browser start up instruction to cause start up of a second browser installed on the user terminal when external contents are to be accessed.

Information processing system for starting up a browser, user terminal, information processing device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A gateway apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus in a communicable manner and connected to an external apparatus via a network, and performing communication control between the image processing apparatus and the external apparatus, includes: a main CPU; a sub CPU; a first detecting unit configured to detect a state of a primary power supply; a second detecting unit configured to detect a state of a secondary power supply; a generating unit configured to generate a transfer instruction message; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about a change in a state of the gateway apparatus or an apparatus located in the vicinity of the gateway apparatus; an updating unit configured to repeatedly perform updating of the transfer instruction message; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the last-generated or last-updated transfer instruction message to an external alternate apparatus.

Gateway apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Masami Yamada