Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yuuta Hashimoto

Tomoyuki Takahira

Susumu Fujioka

Teruaki Takahashi

Naoki Fukasawa

Ken Norota

An information processing apparatus connected with one or more apparatuses through a network, comprises: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first address information for indicating one of addresses in the network among addresses of the apparatuses and first apparatus specific information for identifying the apparatuses; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second apparatus specific information for identifying an apparatus indicated by the first address information acquired by the first acquiring unit; a determining unit configured to determine whether the first apparatus specific information acquired by the first acquiring unit is the same as the second apparatus specific information acquired by the second acquiring unit or not; and a process requesting unit configured to request the apparatus indicated by the first address information to perform a certain process upon the determining unit determining the first apparatus specific information to be the same as the second apparatus specific information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium

Information processing apparatus that determines a device for performing an action based on acquired address information

Mobile terminal that acquires address information of an intended image forming apparatus for printing a print job

A terminal device displays a first screen related to a setting for processing executable by plural models of a device; acquires, from a target device, identification information for the model of the target device through a first communication unit and communication information for communicating with the target device through second communication unit; acquires, from a storing unit, processing information corresponding to the acquired identification information; transmits, to the target device, through the second communication unit, a setting entered through the first screen using communication information. If the processing information acquired through the second communication unit includes information on specific processing executable only by the model corresponding to the identification information, the terminal device further displays a second screen related to a setting for the specific processing, and further transmits the setting entered through the second screen, to the target device through the second communication unit, using the communication information.

System and method for providing setting information to a target device

An image forming system includes an input unit that receives input of visitor information on a visitor; a creating unit that creates an information image including the visitor information received by the input unit; an acquiring unit that acquires the information image; a permit creating unit that creates permit data by placing an image, which includes the visitor information and indicates permission for visitor's access, on a printing medium and placing an image indicating added information on a blank space of the printing medium where no image is placed in accordance with a predetermined layout on the basis of the information image; and an issuing unit that issues a permit for visitor's access by printing an image in which the image indicating permission for access and the image indicating added information are placed on the printing medium by using the permit data.

Image forming system and image forming method

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuuta Hashimoto