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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/32101 (2013.01); G06F 3/1293 (2013.01); G06F 3/1296 (2013.01); H04N 1/00095 (2013.01); H04N 1/00204 (2013.01); H04N 1/00209 (2013.01); H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); H04N 1/00944 (2013.01); H04N 1/00946 (2013.01); H04N 1/00973 (2013.01); H04N 1/2166 (2013.01); H04N 1/32358 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0039 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0043 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0046 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.