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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ohta-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuya Morita, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1296 (2013.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); H04N 1/32561 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0082 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0086 (2013.01);
Abstract
Common portions of applications are extracted as common system service. A platform is formed by the common system service and a general purpose OS. A printer application, a copy application, and various applications are mounted on the platform. As a result, each software (application) corresponding to a printer, a copier, a facsimile device, and so on can be developed efficiently and the productivity of the apparatus as a whole can be improved.