Information processing system and method of processing information

• US 10,187,467 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2014
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Nagai, Kohta
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman, Ramy M
• Application Number:
  US14/521,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120857A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,552 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324

Abstract

An information processing system including at least one computer includes a receiving unit that receives data input by an apparatus connected through a network and specifying information of specifying a storage destination of the data or other data generated based on the other data from a plurality of candidate storage destinations, the data and the specifying information being received from the apparatus; an intermediation unit that provides an interface common to the plurality of candidate storage destinations and sends the data or the other to the storage destination designated in a request received through the common interface; and a requesting unit that requests the intermediation unit through the common interface to send the data received by the receiving unit or the other data generated based on the data to the storage destination specified based on specifying information.

Claims

1. An information processing system including at least one computer, the information processing system comprising:

a service providing apparatus configured to;

receive image data input by an apparatus connected through a network and specifying information that specifies a specified storage destination of the image data or meta information, which is generated from text data extracted from the image data using optical character recognition, from a plurality of candidate storage destinations, the image data and the specifying information being received from the apparatus; and

an intermediation apparatus configured to;

provide a common interface that is common to the plurality of candidate storage destinations,

extract a character string indicative of a value of a predetermined item from the text data, and

generate the meta information based on the extracted character string, and send the meta information to the specified storage destination designated in a request received through the common interface, wherein

the service providing apparatus is configured to generate the request to send the received image data or the generated meta information to the specified storage destination using the common interface.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the intermediation apparatus includes a plurality of intermediation apparatuses,

wherein the specifying information specifies one intermediation apparatus among from the intermediation apparatuses and the specified storage destination corresponding to the one intermediation apparatus,

wherein the service providing apparatus requests the one intermediation apparatus, which is associated with the specified specifying information, to send the image data or the meta information to the specified storage destination.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the intermediation apparatus stores a correspondent relationship between the intermediation apparatus and the candidate storage destinations,

wherein the service providing apparatus requests the intermediation apparatus having the correspondence relationship with the specified storage destination to send the image data received by the service providing apparatus or the generated meta information to the specified storage destination.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3,

wherein the intermediation apparatus stores the correspondence relationship between the intermediation apparatus and the candidate storage destinations for each user information identifying a user,

wherein the service providing apparatus receives user information from the apparatus,

wherein the service providing apparatus requests the intermediation apparatus having the correspondence relationship with the specified storage destination in association with the received user information to send the received image data or the generated meta information to the specified storage destination.

5. An information processing system including a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus,

wherein the first information processing apparatus includes

a first hardware processor which executes a first program to cause the first information processing apparatus to:

receive image data input by an apparatus connected through a network and specifying information that specifies a specified storage destination of the image data or meta information, which is generated from text data extracted from the image data using optical character recognition, from a plurality of candidate storage destinations, the image data and the specifying information being received from the apparatus, and

generate a request to send the received image data or the meta information generated based on the image data to the specified storage destination, the request being sent to the second information processing apparatus, using a common interface that is common to the plurality of candidate storage destinations,

wherein the second information processing apparatus includes

a second hardware processor that executes a second program to cause the second information processing apparatus to;

provide the common interface,

extract a character string indicative of a value of a predetermined item from the text data,

generate the meta information based on the extracted character string, and

send the meta information to the specified storage destination designated in the generated request.