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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2006
Weiyun Tang, Livingston, NJ (US);
Hiroshi Kitada, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
LI LI, Monroe Township, NJ (US);
Weiyun Tang, Livingston, NJ (US);
Hiroshi Kitada, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Li Li, Monroe Township, NJ (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Americas Corporation, West Caldwell, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of invoking a set of services corresponding to a plug-in application installed on an image handling device. The method including launching a host application of the image handling device, accessing a configuration file of the image handling device, the configuration file including an identification of at least one plug-in and a corresponding set of services, launching the identified at least one plug-in, the plug-in providing the corresponding set of service in an integral fashion to the host application and presenting a unified graphical interface including host application services and the corresponding set of service of the plug-in.