Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Toshiki Yamanishi

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Atsushi Itoh

Hidenobu Kishi

Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Yuki Wakita

Junko Nakano

Rieko Ishihara

Hongyang Guo

Seiji Tokuoka

Kunikazu Okajima

Kohichi Sakamoto

Masahiko Yoshimura

A terminal device stores therein an application program provided by a second provider and including an image search program. An image search system provided by a first provider stores therein image data and identification information identifying the image search program; registers, in association with the identification information, setting information indicating whether a storage area to be searched is a first storage area exclusive to the second provider or a second storage area not exclusive to the second provider; stores the image data specified as a search target by the second provider in the first or second storage area; receives a search request for the image data transmitted from the terminal device; determines, when the search request includes the identification information, a storage area to be searched among the first and second storage areas; and determines, when not, the second storage area to be the storage area to be searched.

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

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which has stored thereon Japanese hyphenation processing programs is disclosed. The programs which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to function as a first Japanese hyphenation information obtaining unit which obtains functional Japanese hyphenation information based on information on equipment capabilities obtained from an equipment unit and functional Japanese hyphenation setting information using the equipment capabilities; a second Japanese hyphenation information obtaining unit which obtains logical Japanese hyphenation information to be used by an application program from logical hyphenation setting information to be defined and used by the respective programs; a determining unit which determines a setting item to be inactive from setting items set for a print job based on the functional Japanese hyphenation information and the logical Japanese hyphenation information; and a transmitting unit which transmits information on the determined setting item to be inactive to the application program.

Japanese hyphenation processing program, apparatus, method, and printing system

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiki Yamanishi