Information processing device, information processing system, and computer program product

• US 10,452,322 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Mukasa, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Dudek, Jr., Edward J
• Application Number:
  US15/206,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20170017430A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,198 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1203 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1239 Restricting the usage of resources, e.g. usage or user levels, credit limit, consumables, special fonts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/127 by using hot folders, e.g. folder for which print settings or print data management rules are set in advance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1274 Deleting of print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

An information processing device includes a detection unit, a determining unit, and an execution unit. The detection unit detects that data is stored in a predetermined storage area in a memory. The determining unit determines whether the data stored in the predetermined storage area satisfies an execution condition of predetermined processing associated with the predetermined storage area. The execution unit executes the predetermined processing when the data satisfies the execution condition.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon; and

at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to

detect that first data is stored in a first workflow folder of a plurality of workflow folders,

detect that second data is stored in a second workflow folder of the plurality of workflow folders,

determine whether the first data satisfies a first execution condition associated with the first workflow folder,

determine whether the second data satisfies a second execution condition associated with the second workflow folder, the second execution condition being a condition not associated with the first workflow folder,

execute a first determined processing associated with the first workflow folder on the first data when the first data satisfies the first execution condition,

execute a second determined processing associated with the second workflow folder on the second data when the second data satisfies the second execution condition,

store a copy of the first data in an error folder when the first data does not satisfy the first execution condition, and

delete the first data stored in the first workflow folder after the storage of the copy,

wherein the copy of the first data is not stored in the error folder when the first data satisfies the first execution condition.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the first execution condition is a condition for determining whether the first data contains a determined character string, and

the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to execute the first determined processing on the first data when the first data contains the determined character string.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the first execution condition is a condition for determining whether a name corresponding to the first data contains a determined character string, and

the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to execute the first determined processing on the first data when the name contains the determined character string.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the first execution condition is a condition for determining whether the first data has a determined data format, and

the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to execute the first determined processing on the first data when the first data has the determined data format.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to

determine whether the first data satisfies the first execution condition at a first set time after detection that the first data is stored in the first workflow folder, the first set time being associated with the first workflow folder, and

determine whether the second data satisfies the second execution condition at a second set time after detection that the second data is stored in the second workflow folder, the second set time being associated with the second workflow folder.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to send an error notification indicating that the first data stored in the first workflow folder fails to satisfy the first execution condition to a notification destination of a user who stores the first data in the first workflow folder when the first data fails to satisfy the first execution condition.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein the notification destination of the user is an email address associated with a login of the user.

8. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to

determine whether the first data satisfies the first execution condition at a first set time after detection that the first data is stored in the first workflow folder, the first set time being associated with the first workflow folder, and

transmit the error notification when it is determined that the first data fails to satisfy the first execution condition after a set time has elapsed.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein failure to satisfy the first execution condition is indicative that a user mistakenly stored the first data in the first workflow folder.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second determined processing is different from the first determined processing.

11. The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein

the first determined processing includes at least one first function of a set of functions, the set of functions including data deletion, printing, format conversion and copying, and

the second determined processing includes a second function of the set of functions, the at least one first function not including the second function.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to

determine whether the first data satisfies the first execution condition at a first set time after detection that the first data is stored in the first workflow folder, the first set time being associated with the first workflow folder;

and

delete, out of pieces of the first data stored in the first workflow folder, data satisfying the first execution condition.

13. An information processing system comprising:

an information processing device; and

an electronic device communicatively coupled to the information processing device, wherein

the information processing device includes

a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, and

at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to

detect that first data is stored in a first workflow folder of a plurality of workflow folders,

detect that second data is stored in a second workflow folder of the plurality of workflow folders,

determine whether the first data satisfies a first execution condition associated with the first workflow folder,

determine whether the second data satisfies a second execution condition associated with the second workflow folder, the second execution condition being a condition not associated with the first workflow folder,

execute a first determined processing associated with the first workflow folder on the first data when the first data satisfies the first execution condition,

execute a second determined processing associated with the second workflow folder on the second data when the second data satisfies the second execution condition,

store a copy of the first data in an error folder when the first data does not satisfy the first execution condition, and

delete the first data stored in the first workflow folder after the storage of the copy,

wherein the copy of the first data is not stored in the error folder when the first data satisfies the first execution condition.

14. The information processing system according to claim 13, wherein the electronic device is configured to

accept login credentials from a user, and

perform authentication using the login credentials.

15. The information processing system according to claim 13, wherein the electronic device includes a user interface configured to accept a user selection of the first workflow folder from among the plurality of workflow folders.

16. The information processing system according to claim 15, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept a user selection of the first data from among a set of data.

17. The information processing system according to claim 16, wherein the electronic device is configured to send the first data to the information processing device in response to the user selection.

18. The information processing system according to claim 13, wherein the electronic device is configured to

display a first setting screen on which setting content in the first workflow folder, the first execution condition, and a time period from when the first data is stored in the first workflow folder to when the setting content is performed are settable, and

display a second setting screen on which setting content in the second workflow folder, the second execution condition, and a time period from when the second data is stored in the second workflow folder to when the setting content is performed are settable.

19. A non-transitory recording medium including a computer program that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:

detect that first data is stored in a first workflow folder of a plurality of workflow folders;

detect that second data is stored in a second workflow folder of the plurality of workflow folders;

determine whether the first data satisfies a first execution condition associated with the first workflow folder;

determine whether the second data satisfies a second execution condition associated with the second workflow folder, the second execution condition being a condition not associated with the first workflow folder;

execute a first determined processing associated with the first workflow folder on the first data when the first data satisfies the first execution condition;

execute a second determined processing associated with the second workflow folder on the second data when the second data satisfies the second execution condition;

store a copy of the first data in an error folder when the first data does not satisfy the first execution condition; and

delete the first data stored in the first workflow folder after the storage of the copy,

wherein the copy of the first data is not stored in the error folder when the first data satisfies the first execution condition.