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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2016
Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Junki Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Itaru Kodaira, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukinori Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaki Tasaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Maemura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tohru Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Okazato, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Junki Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Itaru Kodaira, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukinori Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaki Tasaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Maemura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tohru Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Okazato, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a communicating unit which communicates with a portable terminal device and an external device; a storage control unit which controls to store transfer destination information of the external device to which information from the portable terminal device is allowed to be transferred in a storage unit; a determining unit which determines whether a request from the portable terminal device is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information stored in the storage unit; and a communication control unit which controls the communicating unit to transfer the request from the portable terminal device to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information when the determining unit determines that the request is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information.