Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Seijiro Hori

Yuuki Ohtaka

Satoru Nishio

Satoru Kawakubo

Takayori Nishida

Atsuko Yagi

Mitsuhiko Hirose

Ayumi Mihara

An information processing apparatus includes a user list providing unit configured to receive device identification information from a current device connected via a network and to send, to the current device, a user list including one or more user identifiers that are stored in a storage unit in association with the received device identification information; and a program list providing unit configured to receive a user identifier that is selected at the current device from the user identifiers in the user list and to send, to the current device, a program list including sets of program information stored in the storage unit in association with the received user identifier.

Server acquires identification information from a current device of devices and sends user list including one or more identifiers corresponding to all users to the current device

Server acquires identification information from a current device among plurality of devices and sends user information corresponding to all users to the current device

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

An information processing system comprising: a plurality of information processing apparatuses that perform a plurality of tasks defined by work flow information, wherein the work flow information is information that defines an order of the tasks and defines an information processing apparatus that assumes a host device for performing each of the tasks, one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses is definable as the host device, the information processing apparatus defined as the host device performs each of the tasks defined in the work flow information in the defined order, and one information processing apparatus selected according to a predetermined determination condition performs a task for which the work flow information defines the one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses as the host device.

Information processing system and information processing method

A process flow definition creating system provides a process flow definition to a system for executing processes in an order in accordance with the process flow definition. The process flow definition creating system includes a device list storage unit; a screen information storage unit, wherein the screen information is for displaying a first field and a second field; a display control unit that displays the parsed screen information; a setting reception unit that receives a setting for the first field and a setting for the second field, wherein the setting for the first field defines the processes and the order of the processes, and the setting for the second field defines correspondence between the processes and devices that are to execute the processes; and a definition creating unit that creates the process flow definition, based on the settings.

Process flow definition creating system, process flow definition creating device, and a method of creating process flow definition

A data processing apparatus includes a first storage that stores information pertaining to an order in which multiple process flows are executed, the execution of the multiple process flows being started by input of data and terminated by output of the data in a format usable for a user, a reception part that receives input data with respect to one of the multiple process flows, an execution part that executes the one of the multiple process flows on the input data, and a second storage that stores information indicating the one of the multiple process flows executed by the execution part. The execution part identifies a predetermined process flow to be executed with respect to the input data by referring to the first and second storages. The predetermined process flow is a process flow to be performed earliest among the multiple process flows that are not yet executed.

Apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium for processing data

An information processing system includes first information processing devices, and a second information processing device. Each of the first information processing devices includes a request transmitter for transmitting a connection request to the second information processing device; a first storage unit for storing job information to be executed by an apparatus; a retrieval unit for transmitting a request for job information to the second information processing device and receiving the job information; and a first reply unit for transmitting the job information to the apparatus. The second information processing device includes a collection unit for collecting the job information from each of the first storage units of the first information processing devices other than a source of a retrieval request; and a second reply unit for transmitting the job information to the source of the retrieval request.

Information processing system and information processing method for distributing job data among plurality of first information processing devices

An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium.

Information processor, authentication control method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a user information managing part that manages registered user information, an authentication part that performs user authentication using the registered user information managed by the user information managing part, an external authentication part that controls an external computer to perform authentication on user information input via an input interface and acquires authenticated user information from the computer when the input user information is successfully authenticated by the computer, and a registration part that registers the authenticated user information acquired by the external authentication part in the user information managing part as the registered user information.

Information processing apparatus, authentication control method, and authentication control program

An image forming apparatus includes an address obtaining unit configured to obtain address information of a management apparatus for managing definition information of a process flow from an external storage unit; a process information obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information of a process to be performed by the image forming apparatus in the process flow from the management apparatus based on the address information; a function control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to perform the process indicated by the identification information; and a linkage unit configured to send a result of the process to the management apparatus.

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Tokyo, Japan

Seijiro Hori