Seiko Epson Corporation

Ryosuke Kakio

Takashi Sera

Yosuke Kawakami

Yuma Kitahara

Toshie Imai

Masato Iguchi

Hirofumi Miyamoto

Tomonobu Ozawa

Eiichi Harada

Hiroyasu Ogata

Shinichi Tsuruyama

Masaki Fukiage

Tetsuya Wakasa

Kazuaki Naito

Tomoki Takahashi

A printing system includes: a printing device; and a server connected to the printing device via a network. The server includes a print instruction acquisition unit that acquires a print instruction by voice from a voice mediation device and a transmitter that transmits to the printing device print data for printing content based on the print instruction among printable content. The printing device receives the print data, and performs printing in accordance with the print data. The print instruction includes a list print instruction for printing a list of at least part of the printable content. When the list print instruction is acquired, the transmitter transmits list data for printing the list to the printing device. The printing device receives the list data, and prints the list in accordance with the list data.

Printing system and server for receiving voice print instructions indicating the printing of a list

A print control server that controls printing via an SNS includes a display controller that causes, when a printer registration request is received from an account of a user of the SNS, an SNS server that manages the SNS to display, on a terminal device operated by the user, an input screen on which an e-mail address that uniquely identifies a printer is entered, an acquisition unit that acquires the e-mail address entered on the input screen, and a registration unit that refers to a database which specifies, in advance, a correspondence relationship with an e-mail address with respect to a plurality of printers and that registers, when the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit matches any e-mail address specified in the database, the account in association with the printer identified by the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit.

Print control server for printer registration over an SNS

A print control server that controls printing through an SNS includes a registration section configured to register, in association with each other, a first account that is an account of a user of the SNS and print setting information including designation information of a printer to be used for printing. The registration section issues a first password when accepting a designation of the first account and a designation of a second account that is an account of a user of the SNS and that is to be a share destination of a print setting, notifies the first account of the first password through the SNS, and registers, when a password posted on the SNS by the second account coincides with the first password, the print setting information registered in association with the first account also in association with the second account.

Print control server and print control method for controlling printing through a social networking service

A print control server includes a print controller that acquires a print instruction entered by a user belonging to a group chat in a chat system provided by a social networking service (SNS) and causes a printer to execute printing in accordance with the print instruction, a history acquirer that acquires a print history, based on the print instruction, of the printer, and a notifier that notifies the print history in a chat form to an administrator of the group chat via the chat system.

Print control server and print control method for chat system administration

A print control server includes a detector that detects a print instruction or a setting instruction entered by the user in the chat system provided by the SNS, a print controller that executes printing using a printer in accordance with the print instruction or configures a setting relating to the printer in accordance with the setting instruction, and a manager that associates identification information of the user with a privilege of the user in the chat system and stores the identification information and the privilege of the user. The print controller references the information stored by the manager to identify the privilege associated with the identification information of the user who has entered the print instruction or the setting instruction, and limits, based on the identified privilege, the printing to be executed in accordance with the print instruction or the setting to be configured in accordance with the setting instruction.

Print control server and print control method

A print control server that controls printing through an SNS includes a registration section configured to register, in association with each other, a first account that is an account of a user of a first SNS and print setting information including designation information of a printer to be used for printing. The registration section accepts a designation of the first account and a designation of a second account that is an account of a user of a second SNS and that is to be a share destination of a print setting, and registers the print setting information associated with the first account also in association with the second account.

Print control server, print control system, and print control method

A second server apparatus that communicates with a printer that performs a print job and a smartphone that executes an application program of an SNS includes an acquisition unit that acquires print instruction information from the SNS, a job generation unit that generates the print job based on the print instruction information acquired by the acquisition unit, a notification unit that notifies the SNS of response information indicating that the print instruction information was accepted and job identification information for identifying the print job, a job transmission unit that transmits the print job to the printer, and a status acquisition unit that acquires status information indicating an execution status of the print job, and the notification unit notifies the SNS of the status information indicating the execution status of the print job acquired by the status acquisition unit and the job identification information.

System for controlling printing in association with a social networking service

Provided is technology simplifying managing locally connected devices. A device management system configured to connect through a network a device manager and a relay manager that connects to multiple devices through a local communication path. The device manager sends to the relay manager through the network a first process request, the first process request conforming to SNMP, and containing device identification information identifying a device that connects to the relay manager. The relay manager acquires from the first process request target identification information identifying management information to process in the management information of a device, generate a second process request containing the target identification information, and send the second process request through the local communication path indicated by the device identification information contained in the first process request.

Device management system, device manager, relay management device, device management method, and recording medium

A monitoring apparatus which acquires, at a monitoring timing, device information which is a target of collection from a device includes a status information acquisition unit configured to acquire from the device, status information that includes information representing a power supply state of the device; and a monitoring interval setting unit configured to set a monitoring interval which is an interval of the monitoring timing in accordance with the power supply state denoted by the status information which has been acquired.

Monitoring apparatus, monitoring method, and recording medium

A monitoring apparatus is configured to acquire, from a multi-function apparatus including a first device and a second device, first device information regarding the first device and being a collection target and second device information regarding the second device and being a collection target, the monitoring apparatus including: a status information acquisition unit configured to acquire from the first device, at a monitoring timing of the multi-function apparatus, status information denoting a state of the first device; and a device information acquisition unit configured to acquire the first device information from the first device and the second device information from the second device, wherein the device information acquisition unit does not perform acquisition of the second device information from the second device when the status information acquired by the status information acquisition unit is information denoting a sleep mode of the first device.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Ryosuke Kakio