Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takuma Katori

Keiichi Suzuki

Atsushi Nakafuji

Mototsugu Emori

Yasushi Yamaguchi

Kengo Yamamoto

Shinji Satoh

Takahito Uga

Hiroshi Hiraki

Hideharu Kamiyama

Yukio Yonemura

Masayuki Hayano

Hiroki Kohmura

A client terminal transmits a call request for using a MFP to a call control server. The call control server carries out authentication processing about a user and the MFP in response to the call request. If the authentication processing result is correct, the call control server transfers the call request to the printing service management server. The call request is transferred from the printing service management server to a printing service providing server and then transferred to the MFP via the call control server. Thus, a session of the client terminal and the MFP is established. The printing service providing server carries out processing for providing a predetermined printing service based on the call request from the client terminal.

Printing service providing method and printing service providing system

Disclosed is a menu distribution system that provides a menu, which is viewable in a conventional manner and is customized for each customer. A customer allows a read/write device to read a customer ID information storage medium storing customer ID information. The read/write device transmits the customer ID information to a menu server. The menu server has a customer information storage unit that stores, for each customer, attribute information such as food preferences. The menu server selects a menu item most suitable for the customer identified by the transmitted customer ID information, by comparing customer attribute information and menu items stored in a menu item information storage unit. Menu image data is generated based on the selected menu item and is transmitted to the read/write device. The read/write device writes the received menu image data to a memory of a paper like display.

Menu distribution system, menu server, read/write device, method, and computer readable recording medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Takuma Katori