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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Naoki Fukasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyohiro Hyo, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Asakimori, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A service providing system provides a service in which information processing apparatuses and an image forming apparatus cooperate with each other to execute processes for performing printing. The service providing system includes processors configured to execute the processes; a flow controller configured to accept, from one of the information processing apparatuses, a print execution request to execute printing in the image forming apparatus, and to cause the processors to issue a print instruction to be provided to the image forming apparatus, based on flow settings and parameter settings of the processes included in the print execution request; and a print instruction distributor configured to distribute the print instruction to the image forming apparatus based on a print instruction acquisition request from the image forming apparatus. The processors include a print instructor configured to issue the print instruction and to store the print instruction in the print instruction distributor.