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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Applicant:
Hiroshi Kitada, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Inventor:
Hiroshi Kitada, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Assignees:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Americas Corporation, West Caldwell, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and device for 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 an image handling device, accessing a configuration file of the image handling device, launching the at least one plug-in based on the information regarding the activation of each service and presenting a graphical interface that includes a graphical indicia of each activated service corresponding to each activated plug-in.