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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 06, 2008
Takahiro Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahiro Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a job-history managing unit that creates and manages a job history, registers a job history, as a job history instance, containing an operation code that instructs a series of job operations to be executed and also containing an operating condition of the job operation, and that registers a macro instance which can be interpreted by other image forming apparatuses and is encoded to an executable shared code. The image forming apparatus also includes an interpreter unit that reads the job history instance, encodes the operation code to the shared code, and registers the shared code as the macro instance.