Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Naritake Kondoh

Sachiko Takeuchi

Shohta Suzuki

Shohichi Naitoh

Naohiko Kubo

Futoshi Oseto

Yuuichiroh Hayashi

Kazunori Takatsu

Yusuke Yoshioka

An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.

Output system, information processing system, including circuitry to generate a character string to perform authentication for a user, and authentication method

An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data. The output system includes a processing control unit configured to acquire the identification information issued for the output request of the data in response to the output request from the information processing device, a second communication unit configured to transmit, to the information processing device, the identification information acquired by the processing control unit, and a third communication unit configured to transmit, to an output device, the data acquired from a storage destination associated with the identification information, upon receiving from the output device the output request of the data with the identification information being designated.

Information processing system and method for processing data output requests and identification information

An information processing system, a service providing device, and an information processing method. The information processing system receives a request for downloading a client program to a client terminal from a user operating the client terminal, determines at least one client program from one or more client programs according to the login method of the user, and control to send the determined client program to the client terminal.

System and method for determining client program based on login method

An information processing system for providing a service via a service providing server residing on a first network, the service being requested by an information processing apparatus residing on a second network different from the first network based on application information, the information processing system including: first circuitry to obtain state information indicating a state of the service providing server; and second circuitry to transmit the state information of the service providing server to the information processing apparatus in response to reception of a service request to the service providing server from the information processing apparatus, to cause the information processing apparatus to perform a notification operation according to the state information that is received.

Information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium

An information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a service providing system mutually communicating through a network, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a display process unit to cause a screen of a display device to display a process flow that defines an execution order of processes executed by the service providing system, and a setup reception unit to receive a setup, in which predetermined processes related to first and second external services are associated, and the display process unit displays the processes to be executed in the execution order, and an issue that the setup reception unit has received the predetermined processes related to the first and second external services in association with each other, the service providing system includes a process flow execution unit to execute the processes included in the process flow transmitted from the information processing apparatus in the defined execution order.

Information processing system, service providing system, and flow setting method

A service providing system provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network. The service providing system is constituted by at least one information processing apparatus. The service providing system includes at least one log information storage unit configured to store log information relating to the service provided to the service usage device, in association with organization identification information of the service usage device; an organization information storage unit configured to store a standard time of an organization identified by the organization identification information; and a log information providing unit configured to collect the log information from the log information storage unit based on the organization identification information, correct time and date information included in the log information according to the standard time of the organization identified by the organization identification information, and subsequently provide the log information to a request source of the log information.

Service providing system and log information providing method

An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus coupled to a second information processing apparatus via a network. The first information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire first data including second data, a process information reader to read, when the first data satisfies a predetermined condition, process information in association with the predetermined condition from a storage, a transmitter to transmit, when the process information includes predetermined process information, third data to the second information processing apparatus, and an editor to edit the second data in accordance with the process information. The second information processing apparatus includes a second acquisition unit to acquire the third data from the first information processing apparatus, and a display unit to display on a display device indication that the second data are edited when the third data are acquired.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and apparatus

A data processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform a process on print data or setting data of the print data by a processing method targeting print data of a specific description format; a receiving unit configured to receive print data and setting data of the print data of a description format selected by a user; a determination data obtaining unit configured to obtain determination data that indicates whether a printer driver used for inputting the received print data and the setting data is a target printer driver for the process performed by the processing unit; and a process control unit configured to determine whether to perform the process by the processing unit on the received print data or the setting data based on the obtained determination data, and control the processing by the processing unit.

Data processing apparatus and print system

An information processing apparatus, including a reading apparatus which reads an electronic recording card, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the electronic recording card via the reading apparatus and obtains read information; a generating unit which generates user management information of a user who owns the electronic recording card based on the read information obtained by the reading unit; and a holding unit which holds the user management information generated by the generating unit in a predetermined storage area.

Information processing apparatus, information management method, and information management program

A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information.

Service providing system and information gathering method

An information processor is connected via a network to an output apparatus and configured to control a job outputting process of the output apparatus. The information processor includes a job identifier generation part configured to generate a job identifier for uniquely identifying a job input from a terminal apparatus connected via the network to the information processor, an information storage part configured to store information that correlates the job identifier and the input job, a job identifier transmission part configured to transmit the job identifier correlated with the input job to the terminal apparatus, and a job association part configured to associate user information for uniquely identifying an authenticated user received from the output apparatus with the input job based on a job association request including the user information and the job identifier and on the information stored in the information storage part.

Information processor and system that associate job and user information based on job identifier

A job management apparatus connected to an external storage via a network, includes a storage management unit that determines whether to store job data of a job to be executed by an electronic device in the external storage based on a predetermined transfer condition; and a job management unit that stores the job data in the external storage when the storage management unit determines to store the job data in the external storage.

Job management apparatus connected to an external storage via a network, including a storage management unit that determines whether to store job data in the external storage based on predetermined transfer condition

An information processing system, which is implemented by one or more information processing apparatuses, includes an electronic data receiving unit configured to receive electronic data via a network from an external apparatus; and a data conversion unit configured to identify at least one of an output setting and a data format corresponding to attribute information of a user operating the external apparatus by referring to a storage unit storing at least one of the output setting and the data format in association with the attribute information of the user, and convert the received electronic data into output data according to at least one of the output setting and the data format.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and data conversion method

A service providing system includes an information processing device and provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network. The service providing system includes a storage unit for storing management information, in which service identification information, user identification information, and service usage device identification information are associated; an authentication unit for performing authentication, by using authentication information of the user or the device acquired from the service usage device; a service specification unit for specifying the service associated with the authentication information, based on the authenticated authentication information and the management information; and an execution unit configured to execute a process according to a usage request to use the service, when the usage request specified by the service specification unit is acquired, and to execute control of output, based on contents of an output request from the service usage device instructed by the user.

Service providing system and service providing method for providing a service to a service usage device connected via a network

A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus. The execution unit determines a content of a predetermined output request acquired from the service using apparatus and controls output of data according to the output request.

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