Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080239357 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A user-interface unit receives a request from a user. A control unit performs an execution control in response to the request received by the user-interface unit, and during an execution process, performs an interruption process and an authentication process. An application-logic unit provides a plurality of functions related to an image forming process. A device-service unit provides a shared service for the application-logic unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20090119553 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input data, a processing unit configured to process the data, an output unit configured to output the data, and an execution unit configured to execute a first process, a second process, and a third process. A function of an application is provided by operating the input unit, the processing unit, and the output unit in conjunction with each other. The first process executes application management software that manages activation and termination of the application. The second process executes basic application software that provides a basic function of the information processing device. The third process executes extended application software that provides an extended function added to the information processing device. | 05-07-2009 |
20100220348 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING WEB SERVICE FUNCTIONS - The object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus that can transmit and receive data without any process part of an application corresponding to various communication protocols and easily add a communication protocol and an application. An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes connection request mediation means for, in response to a connection notice from a plurality of communication protocol daemons to transmit and receive data in accordance with respective different communication protocols, mediating connection instead of the communication protocol daemons by informing the application that a connection request is provided to the communication protocol daemons and a shared memory being used for delivery of received data and transmitted data between the application and the plurality of communication protocol daemons and being shared by the communication protocol daemon. | 09-02-2010 |
20100238507 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, data recovery method, and computer-readable recording medium - An information processing apparatus includes a volatile main storage; a nonvolatile first-auxiliary storage; a nonvolatile second-auxiliary storage for storing second data; a processing unit for loading the second data from the second-auxiliary storage into the main storage; a storing unit for storing first data stored in the main storage into the first-auxiliary storage at a predetermined timing, wherein the first data includes the second data that has been loaded into the main storage from the second-auxiliary storage; and a loading unit for loading the first data stored in the first-auxiliary storage into the main storage. After the loading unit has loaded the first data into the main storage, the processing unit loads, from the second-auxiliary storage into the main storage, the second data that has been changed after the storing unit stored the first data into the first-auxiliary storage from the main storage section. | 09-23-2010 |
20120236356 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A user-interface unit receives a request from a user. A control unit performs an execution control in response to the request received by the user-interface unit, and during an execution process, performs an interruption process and an authentication process. An application-logic unit provides a plurality of functions related to an image forming process. A device-service unit provides a shared service for the application-logic unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20130238689 | SERVER APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A server apparatus capable of connecting to a content providing apparatus which provides content and an image display apparatus via a network, includes an index data processing unit which provides index data to the image display apparatus, based on content to be provided by the content providing apparatus, for having the image display apparatus display a list screen including information of the content; and an image data processing unit which provides image data to the image display apparatus for having the image display apparatus display a content display screen using information of the content selected from the list screen by an operator. | 09-12-2013 |
20140020117 | SERVER, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A server connectable to an apparatus providing contents and an image display apparatus includes an index information processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with index information for causing a list of information items associated with the contents to be displayed by the image display apparatus, an image data processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with image data for causing a content associated with an information item selected from the list to be displayed by the image display apparatus, and an apparatus authentication part configured to cause the index information processing part and the image data processing part to execute respective processes when the identification information of the image display apparatus that has requested to obtain the content associated with the selected information item by using access authority information regarding authority to access the content is managed in correlation with the access authority information. | 01-16-2014 |
20140223532 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An information processing system includes a receiving unit that receives user identification information and organization identification information from an external device, and an authentication unit that performs authentication of the user identification information and the organization identification information received by the receiving unit using a first storage unit storing one or more sets of user identification information in association with organization identification information. When the authentication unit receives a federated authentication request to access an external service from the external device that is authenticated, the authentication unit sends a federated authentication response to the external device if the organization identification information received from the external device and the external service designated in the federated authentication request are associated with each other in a second storage unit storing the organization identification information in association with information on one or more external services that have established a trust relationship for authentication. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system includes multiple network segments to which one or more information processors are connectable. The network segments includes a first network segment to which at least one first information processor configured to store predetermined information is connected, a second network segment to which at least one second information processor is connected, and a third network segment to which at least one third information processor is connected. The second network segment includes multiple predefined application programming interface (API)s, and the at least one second information processor executes a process corresponding to a called one of the APIs using the predetermined information stored in the at least one first information processor. In response to receiving a request from outside the information processing system, the at least one third information processor controls a process corresponding to the request by calling one of the APIs which corresponds to the request. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223570 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHOD - An information processing system including one or more information processing apparatus includes one or more service providing units to provide a service to a first terminal device; and a license management unit to manage a license temporarily registered from a second terminal device. The service providing unit includes a first storage unit to preserve license information of the license managed by the license management unit; a second storage unit to store a copy of the license information; and a validation unit to receive a request to make the license valid from the first terminal device, to make the temporarily registered license information stored in the second storage unit valid, and to request to make the temporarily registered license information preserved in the first storage unit valid. The service is provided for the first terminal device based on the license having made valid. | 08-07-2014 |
20140289817 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus includes a location information generating unit that generates location information of index information stored in the server apparatus and location information of image data stored in the server apparatus; an index obtaining unit that obtains the index information from the server apparatus using the location information of the index information; a list screen generating unit that generates a list screen including information on the image data stored in the server apparatus using the index information and displays the list screen on a display unit; an image data obtaining unit that obtains the image data from the server apparatus using the location information of the image data that is selected by an operator from the list screen; and a display screen generating unit that generates a display screen of the obtained image data and displays the display screen on the display unit. | 09-25-2014 |