Service provision device, service provision program, recording medium, and service provision method

• US 20050231755A1
• Filed: 09/09/2004
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Tsujigaito, Shingo, Araumi, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US10/936,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20050231755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence

Abstract

In a service provision device having a service provision unit which provides a user with a service, a receiving unit receives a request from a client which is connected through a network to the service provision unit and uses the service. A service unit provides the service which is created in response to the request from the client. An instruction unit provides an instruction, containing information concerning contents of processing related to the service, which is created in response to the request from the client. A job execution unit provides an interface to a service executor which performs the service-related processing, and performs a job related to the service-related processing.

Claims

1. A service provision device having a service provision unit which provides a user with a service, comprising:

a receiving unit receiving a request from a client which is connected through a network to the service provision unit and uses the service;

a service unit providing the service which is created in response to the request from the client;

an instruction unit providing an instruction, containing information concerning contents of processing related to the service, which is created in response to the request from the client; and

a job execution unit providing an interface to a service executor which performs the service-related processing, and performing a job related to the service-related processing.

2. The service provision device according to claim 1 further comprising a session unit providing a session of the service provision unit and the client.

3. The service provision device according to claim 2 wherein the service provided by the service unit is created in response to a session start request received from the client.

4. The service provision device according to claim 2 further comprising a session management unit managing the session of the service provision unit and the client.

5. The service provision device according to claim 2 wherein the receiving unit is provided with an association which associates a session identifier which identifies the session, with the service unit.

6. The service provision device according to claim 1 further comprising an instruction management unit managing the instruction containing the information concerning the contents of the service-related processing.

7. The service provision device according to claim 1 wherein the service unit allocates uniquely an instruction identifier which identifies the instruction.

8. The service provision device according to claim 1 further comprising a document database unit providing an interface to a document manager which manages a document.

9. The service provision device according to claim 1 further comprising a record unit providing an interface to a record accumulation unit which accumulates records concerning the service-related processing.

10. The service provision device according to claim 1 wherein the receiving unit, the service unit, the instruction unit and the job execution unit are implemented using classes of an object-oriented programming.

11. A computer program product embodied therein for causing a computer to execute a service provision method in a service provision device having a service provision unit which provides a user with a service, the service provision method comprising:

receiving a request from a client which is connected through a network to the service provision unit and uses the service;

providing the service which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an instruction, containing information concerning contents of processing related to the service, which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an interface to a service executor which performs the service-related processing; and

performing a job related to the service-related processing.

12. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein the service provision method further comprises providing a session of the service provision unit and the client.

13. The computer program product according to claim 12 wherein the service is created in response to a session start request received from the client.

14. The computer program product according to claim 12 wherein the service provision method further comprises managing the session of the service provision unit and the client.

15. The computer program product according to claim 12 wherein an association which associates a session identifier which identifies the session, with the service unit is provided in the service provision device.

16. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein the service provision method further comprises managing the instruction containing the information concerning the contents of the service-related processing.

17. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein an instruction identifier which identifies the instruction is allocated uniquely.

18. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein the service provision method further comprises providing an interface to a document manager which manages a document.

19. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein the service provision method further comprises providing an interface to a record accumulation unit which accumulates records concerning the service-related processing.

20. The computer program product according to claim 11 wherein respective steps of the service provision method are implemented using classes of an object-oriented programming.

21. A computer-readable recording medium embodied therein for causing a computer to execute a service provision method in a service provision device having a service provision unit which provides a user with a service, the service provision method comprising:

receiving a request from a client which is connected through a network to the service provision unit and uses the service;

providing the service which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an instruction, containing information concerning contents of processing related to the service, which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an interface to a service executor which performs the service-related processing; and

performing a job related to the service-related processing.

22. A service provision method for use in a service provision device having a service provision unit which provides a user with a service, the service provision method comprising:

receiving a request from a client which is connected through a network to the service provision unit and uses the service;

providing the service which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an instruction, containing information concerning contents of processing related to the service, which is created in response to the request from the client;

providing an interface to a service executor which performs the service-related processing; and

performing a job related to the service-related processing.

23. The service provision method according to claim 22 further comprising acquiring job information concerning the job in response to a request received from the client.

24. The service provision method according to claim 22 further comprising acquiring a list of job information concerning the job, which meets predetermined filtering conditions concerning the job, in response to a request received from the client.