Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Kazuyuki Fukui

Norihisa Takayama

Hiroyuki Ozawa

Shuichiro Kaneko

Mikio Masui

Ikunori Yamaguchi

Takashi Morikawa

Eiichi Yoshida

Takeshi Morikawa

Akio Nakajima

Nobuo Kamei

Munehiro Nakatani

Hideo Kumashiro

Syuji Maruta

Motomi Kawamura

Masazumi Ito

Hirokazu Yamada

Masakazu Murakami

Minoru Nakamura

Yutaka Irie

Eiichiro Kawasaki

Shoji Imaizumi

Nobuhiro Mishima

Tomoyuki Atsumi

Kazuo Inui

Keiji Nakatani

Katsunori Suzuki

Atsushi Tomita

Junichi Hase

Hiroshi Sugiura

Syuzi Maruta

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Kazuhiro Araki

Toshimichi Iwai

Kiyoshi Emori

Kaoru Hashimoto

Toshihiko Kumon

Makoto Sekiya

Yukio Tadauchi

Atsushi Ishikawa

Kazumi Sawayanagi

Masami Yamada

Keiji Kusumoto

Kaitaku Ozawa

Hisashi Uchida

Katsuhiko Akita

Masamichi Sugiura

Akiyoshi Johdai

Hideo Muramatsu

Takuma Ishikawa

Tomonari Yoshimura

Shigenobu Fukushima

Hidetaka Iwai

Okihisa Yoshida

Masaya Hashimoto

Masanori Yamamoto

Yuji Okamoto

Katsuaki Tajima

Ayumi Itoh

Yasutaka Ito

Yoshihisa Kawai

Tetsuya Itoh

Mitsuzo Iwaki

Atsushi Tamura

Takashi Kadono

Keisuke Teramoto

Yoshiyuki Kurahashi

Sou Hirota

Hideo Yamamoto

Eiko Hirano

One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus. When a computer virus has been detected from the one information processing apparatus by the virus detection processing, the one information processing apparatus transmits an execution request to perform the virus detection processing to another information processing apparatus different from the one information processing apparatus among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

Information processing system controlling performance of virus detection processing at devices included in the system, and information processing apparatus and recording medium

An image data management apparatus which provides a pull-print mark for a file which is expected to be printed at an externally connected image forming apparatus, that is, to be subjected to pull-printing. It is possible to provide the pull-print mark for a plural number of files. When a user commands pull-printing of such a file at an externally connected image forming apparatus, a search is made within the files provided with the pull-print mark. Thereby, the load on the image data management apparatus for searching the file is light. In order to permit a user to command pull-printing at a printer with a simple user interface, simple authentication codes may be used.

Image data management apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming system

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that reduces the troubles of key operations, while ensuring the security, when access is made to a web server. The image processing apparatus comprises: (a) an identification unit operable to identify a login name of a user of the image processing apparatus; (b) a web server management table in which, with respect to each login name, location information indicating a location of a web server is associated with transmission information to be transmitted to the web server; and (c) a transmission unit operable to transmit the transmission information to the web server, the location of which is indicated by the location information pertaining to the identified login name in reference to the web server management table.

Image processing apparatus, information transmission method and image processing system

A network system that can easily carry out remote access of a different network. The network system comprises a first image processing apparatus connected to a first network and a second image processing apparatus connected to a second network having a network address different from that of the first network. The first image processing apparatus includes a first network interface connected to the first network; a second network interface that can build a third network, that is different from the first and second networks, between it and a terminal that is normally connected to the second network and in which the first IP address in the second network is set; an IP header editing unit that performs processing such that the address of the IP packets sent from the terminal via the third network is the IP address of the second image processing apparatus; and a packet transmission unit that sends the IP packets processed by the IP header editing unit to a network via the first network interface, and the second image processing apparatus includes a response header editing unit that performs processing to make the first network interface the destination for responses to IP packets sent by the terminal via the first image processing apparatus.

Network system that can easily remotely access other networks

An MFP stores information of a web service for permitting use with respect to each user, and information for limiting a use of its function. When there is a web service allowed to be used by the logged in user, its list is displayed. When a linked function with the selected web service is not allowed to be used, a massage to the effect that is displayed and when the use of the function is limited, limited contents are displayed to confirm the use of the web service.

Image forming apparatus unifying management for use of image forming apparatus and use of web service

In order to promote reception of transmitted data, an image-processing apparatus is connected to a plurality of image-processing apparatuses through a network and has a designation unit to receive a designation of an arbitrary destination user as a receiver of data; a storing unit to store the data in a storing device so as to enable reading of the data by an operation by the destination user designated by the designation unit; and a control unit to execute a predetermined action with respect to the destination user designated by the designation unit when no reading operation for the data is executed by the destination user after a predetermined elapse of time from storing the data in the storing device.

Image-processing apparatus, image-processing system, and method for transmitting and receiving data suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image-processing apparatuses

In order to easily set IP addresses required for communicating with apparatuses connected to a network, an MFP includes a port scan unit for acquiring, by port scanning, an IP address of a server having a predetermined port open from one of the servers connected to the network, and a network environment storage part for storing a set of acquired IP address and a port number of the predetermined port.

Communication device suitable for setting IP address of server connected to network, network parameter setting method and network parameter settting program product

In order to share user identification information among a plurality of MFPs without using a server, each of a plurality of MFPs forming an image processing system stores in a HDD registered user information which at least includes the user identification information for identifying a user, requests another MFP to transmit registered user information stored in the HDD provided in that MFP, receives the registered user information transmitted by that MFP according to the request made by a request portion, and stores in the HDD user data that at least includes the received registered user information.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing program product suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image processing apparatuses

In order to efficiently store data that is to be transmitted or received, an image-processing system is provided with a plurality of MFPs and has: a designation unit to designate an arbitrary destination user as a receiver of data; a specifying unit to specify an MFP among the plurality of MFPs, the destination user designated by the designation unit belonging to the specified MFP; and a control unit to control switching between a first mode and a second mode in accordance with a predetermined condition, the first mode being for storing the data in a predetermined storing device on the network so as to enable reading of the data by an operation by the destination user designated by the designation unit, the second mode being for, instead of storing the data in the predetermined storing device, transmitting the data to the MFP specified by the specifying unit, the destination user belonging to the specified image-processing apparatus.

Information-processing system, method for transmitting and receiving data, image-processing apparatus suited especially for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image-processing apparatuses connected to network

In order to prevent invalid distribution of data, a data managing method includes the steps of inputting a document, extracting, from the input document, a document No. for identifying the document, receiving the input of a user ID for identifying a user, determining whether or not a process for the input document is permitted for the user identified by the acquired user ID by referring to permission data, and forbidding the execution of output processes for the input data in the case where it has been determined in the determining step that the process is not permitted. The permission data is data which associates, for each document No., user IDs with the process names for identifying processes permitted for the document.

Data managing method, data managing device and data managing server suitable for restricting distribution of data

The document management device manages documents circulated to a reader according to a circulation tree and additional information added to the documents by the readers. The circulation tree indicates the circulation order of a plurality of readers, and includes at least a first group and a second group. The document management device includes: document circulation unit for enabling a reader of the circulation tree to read predetermined document data; recognition unit for recognizing additional information added by the reader as electronic data; and additional information management unit for managing the additional information by associating it with document data determined for each group to which the reader belongs.

Document management device and document management method

The document management device is for managing a document circulated to a reader in accordance with a circulation tree and additional information added to the document by the reader. The circulation tree indicates the circulation order of plural readers. The device includes: document circulation unit for enabling the n(n is an integer not less than 2) reader to read the n&#x2212;1generation document data cumulatively including the 1additional information to the n&#x2212;1additional information added, by the first reader to the n&#x2212;1reader respectively, to the 0generation document data readable by the first reader of the circulation tree; recognition unit for recognizing the nadditional information added by the nreader as electronic data; and additional information management unit for managing the nadditional information by associating it with the 0generation document data.

The data processing system includes a storage portion to store user data that at least includes user identification information for identifying a user, a destination designation portion to display a user identified by the user identification information stored in the storage portion so as to allow designation of the user as a destination and a data designation portion to designate data to be delivered to the destination designated by the destination designation portion, a processing method designation portion to designate a processing method for processing the data, a user identification information input portion to accept an input of user identification information, a data extracting portion to extract data whose destination is the user specified by the user identification information inputted, and a data processing portion to process the extracted data by a processing method designated by the processing method designation portion.

Data processing system, data processing apparatus, and data processing program product suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image processing apparatuses

To allow inputting and outputting of data using any apparatus of a plurality of MFPs, each of the plurality of MFPs includes a HDD to store user data including user identification information for identifying a plurality of users, a job attribute information generating portion to generate job attribute information which associates location information on the network of data inputted in a scanner with one of a plurality of user identification information, a control portion to control so as to store the job attribute information in HDDs of other MFPs connected to the network, a user identification information input portion to accept an input of the user identification information, a job attribute information obtaining portion to obtain from the HDDs of other MFPs connected to the network the job attribute information including the user identification information inputted, and a data obtaining portion to obtain data associated by the job attribute information obtained.

When a new MFP is connected in a state where a plurality of MFPs are connected to a network, each of a plurality of MFPs obtains an IP address of MPF from the new MFP, and if user data including the obtained IP address is stored, then transmits to the new MFP the registered user information associated with the obtained IP address by the user data. On the other hand, if user data including the obtained IP address is not stored in HDD, the new MFP is requested to transmit registered user information. Upon reception of the registered user information, the new MFP displays a confirmation window to ask the user for permission to write that registered user information into HDD. Upon reception of the request, the new MFP transmits registered user information. This facilitates the setting for newly connecting an apparatus to the network.

Image processing system including plurality of image processing apparatuses used by plurality of users, image processing apparatus included in the image processing system

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Itami, Japan

Yoshikazu Ikenoue