Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Toshiya Shozaki

Kaitaku Ozawa

Kenichi Takahashi

Junichi Hase

Jun Shiraishi

Tomoko Maruyama

Ryosuke Nishimura

Shoko Haba

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Keisuke Teramoto

Hideyuki Matsuda

Mie Kawabata

Hiroyuki Ohno

Ryoji Bando

Munehiro Nakatani

Akemi Morita

Kimie Ando

Ryuichi Kitaoka

A security information update system includes a service providing server and information processing devices, the service providing server including: an authentication information memory that stores a pair of security information and identification information; and a service providing unit that provides a service to the information processing device, and the information processing devices including: a policy acquisition unit that acquires a security policy; a security information memory that stores security information; a process executing unit that transmits a pair of the same identification information and security information to the service providing server and receives a service; an authentication information acquisition unit that acquires security information after update; an update unit that updates security information with the acquired security information after the update date and time; and a prohibition unit that prohibits execution of a process of receiving a service after the update date and time until update with the security information.

Security information update system, information processing device, security information update method, and security information update program

An information processing apparatus includes: a display; a first processing unit; and a second processing unit, wherein the first processing unit includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first screen relating to first processing performed by the first processing unit to the second processing unit, the second processing unit includes a mounting section in which a peripheral device is mounted and a hardware processor, the hardware processor configured to: cause the display to selectively display either one of the first screen and a second screen relating to second processing performed by the second processing unit, and when the display displays the first screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the first processing and, when the display displays the second screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the second processing.

Information processing apparatus, peripheral device use method, and computer program

Each of the plurality of information processing apparatus includes an operation panel, a storage that stores security information, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor registers an administrator, when a user is registered as the administrator, authenticates the user, and when the user is authenticated, executes a first process of updating any of the stored security information, and a second process of setting the information processing apparatus in accordance with an operation by the authenticated user, and when the user is not registered as the administrator and is authenticated as an administrator in communicable another information processing apparatus, executes the first process but not the second process.

Security information update system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with security information update program

An image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus; an instruction server configured to transmit instruction information to the image processing apparatus via a router having a firewall function; and a session server configured to set up a session between the image processing apparatus and the instruction server. The image processing apparatus is configured to switch, in a case where the state of the image processing apparatus is a power saving state when a time specified by a transmission interval elapses from transmission of a connection confirmation packet for the session with the instruction server, to a state in which at least the connection confirmation packet can be transmitted.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, instruction server, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes: an authentication information requesting portion that transmits one or more requests for authentication information to a portable terminal apparatus upon receipt of a connection request therefrom, the connection request not requiring user identification; a first authentication portion that performs first authentication not requiring user identification by comparing authentication information to first reference data, the authentication information being received in return for the request; a second authentication portion that performs second authentication by comparing the authentication information to second reference data for user identification; and a processor that takes one piece of authentication information or any one of multiple pieces of authentication information received in return for the one or more requests, according to a predetermined rule, and that makes the second authentication portion perform the second authentication using the one piece of authentication information or the any one of the multiple pieces of authentication information.

Image processing apparatus, authentication method, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes: a communication portion to communicate with a portable information device; an operation accepting portion to accept an operation by a user; an operation state switching portion to switch an operation state between an operating state showing a state in which a user is inputting an operation to the operation accepting portion and a non-operating state that is not the operating state; a display portion to display an image; an operation screen transmission portion to, in response to a request being received from the portable information device when an operation state is being switched to the non-operating state, transmit an operation screen corresponding to the received request to the portable information device through the communication portion; and a display control portion to, in response to transmission of the operation screen, display an image different from the operation screen on the display portion.

Image forming apparatus, display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with displaying control program for displaying an image of a help screen

An image processing apparatus stores therein a use charging table that shows a charging condition with respect to use of the image processing apparatus and a cooperative job charging table that shows a charging condition with respect to execution of a cooperative job. In the case where a received job is an apparatus job to be executed only by the image processing apparatus, the use charging table is read. Charging processing is performed based on the read charging table, and a remaining amount is calculated. In the case where a received job is a cooperative job to be executed by the image processing apparatus and a service providing apparatus cooperatively with each other, the cooperative job charging table is read, and charging processing is performed with reference to the read cooperative job charging table as necessary.

Image processing apparatus, charging management system, charging management method, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus associates application information to connect to a server device and a client certificate to transmit to the server device with each other and stores therein the associated application information and client certificate. An application managing part activates a browser with designating transmission of the client certificate which is associated with the application information. The browser transmits the client certificate identified by the application managing part to the server device when a request for transmission of the client certificate is received from the server device. As the result, the image processing apparatus reduces operation load placed on a user to transmit the client certificate to the server device. Moreover, the appropriate client certificate may be transmitted to the server device without lowering efficiency in processing. So, data communication between the image processing apparatus and the server device may be established rapidly.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, recording medium and data communication establishing method

A box data management apparatus extracts box data from a plurality of devices, connected to a network, to enable display of a list of the box data. An operational parameter collection part in the box data management apparatus collects operational parameters as information for processing the box data in the devices. A box data processing part in the box data management apparatus extracts and displays a device and an operational parameter which are capable of processing each of the box data based upon the operational parameters. Therefore, after display of the box data in a list without division by the devices, operational parameters capable of processing selected box data are displayed, thereby enabling improvement in operability and convenience for the user.

Box data management apparatus and method

The present invention relates to an image formation device, a display screen switching method, and a program. Excellent operability with user friendliness is realized by appropriately controlling switching of a display screen without increasing a burden on an operating system. In order to accomplish this, an image formation devicefor example includes: a panel managerfor controlling switching of a display screen to be displayed on a display unit; a system controllerfor controlling a hardware section; and an application sectionfor executing a specific function by putting the hardware section into operation through the system controller, and for creating a display screen relating to the specific function. When the system controllerdetects the occurrence of an event with the display screen created in the application sectionbeing displayed on the display unit, the panel managerrequests the application sectionto determine whether or not switching of a display screen should be made, and controls switching of a display screen to be displayed on the display unitbased on a result of the determination made by the application section

Image formation device, display screen switching method, and program

An installation support method that supports an installation of an application, comprising: a searching step of searching installed applications for an application which is of the same type as a new application to be installed; and a setting step of obtaining configuration values of the application found by the search, and setting initial configuration values of the new application to be the obtained configuration values.

Installation support method and workflow generation support method

In user management for a device, when information on a user who wants to use a device is received, settings for the user to use the device based on the information are generated on the user. Then, the information on the user and the generated settings for the user are registered.

System and method for user management

In order to facilitate updating of information on a destination of data, a data communication system includes a server and an MFP capable of communicating with each other. The MFP transmits to the server an update requesting signal including a source address of an e-mail received from another apparatus and related information on the source, transmits an address request to the server and receives user address data from the server, and transmits data to at least one destination address included in the received user address data. The server stores the user address data having destination addresses and related information on the destinations associated with each other, and in receipt of the update requesting signal from the MFP, rewrites the related information associated with the source address included in the update requesting signal by the user address data with the related information included in the update requesting signal.

Data communication system including address management apparatus and data communication apparatus, address management method using address management apparatus, and address management program controlling address management apparatus

In order to prevent a duplicate of a still image from being generated, an MFP includes an image obtaining portion to obtain one or more still images, a moving image generating portion to generate a moving image in which the obtained still images are displayed sequentially, and a distribution portion to perform real-time streaming distribution of the moving image in response to a request from a PC connected to a network.

Image distribution apparatus, image distribution method, and image distribution program

In order to enable a still image to be checked while preventing leakage of confidential information contained in the still image, an MFP includes: an image acquiring portion to acquire a still image; an encoding portion to generate encoded data by encoding the acquired still image using an encoding key stored in advance; a decoding portion to decode the encoded data using the encoding key or a decoding key corresponding to the encoding key; and a transmitting portion to externally output the decoded still image in an electronically non-recordable form.

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Osaka, Japan

Toshiya Shozaki