Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Susumu Takase

Koji Fukunaga

Tsutomu Takahashi

Kazuhiro Nakamura

Toshiomi Moriki

Yoshiko Yasuda

Jiro Tateyama

Naohisa Suzuki

Masaki Nishiyama

Hisatsugu Naito

In a multi-tenancy information processing system, a necessary setting change item and a target NW device are specified at the time of changing a configuration of a virtual machine of a tenant. A management serverincludes a device management tablefor each tenant and each segment, in which an NW setting item set for a network (NW) device is stored for each of the NW devices corresponding to the segment of the tenant, in advance. The management serverreceives a configuration change request including type information on a request representing addition, deletion, or movement of the virtual machine, an identifier of a target tenant, and an identifier of a target segment.

Multi-tenancy information processing system, management server, and configuration management method

A printing method and apparatus according to the present invention is capable of instructing whether or not a printing portion is used in a case where data is received from a host so as to be printed, and the initializing control required to perform printing can be skipped at the time of power supply if the printing portion is not used, or arranged to store a fact whether or not initialization has been performed so that whether or not the initialization is performed is controlled at the time of the power supply or when a printing opportunity has been issued.

Printing method and apparatus therefor

A data processing apparatus capable of distinguishing the data entered from the keyboard from those received through a communication line, thus facilitating the use by the operator.

Information processing apparatus with discriminating communication and

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Yokohama, Japan

Susumu Takase