Terminal device, information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium

• US 20050234944A1
• Filed: 03/11/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Ohtani, Yohko
• Granted Patent: US 7,577,660 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0097 Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A terminal device is provided that serves as a terminal of an information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information in the form of item values of user information management items. This terminal device includes a group setting screen providing unit that provides a group setting screen for setting a group in the information processing apparatus. The group is specified by whether the user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item. The user information managing server manages whether the user belongs to the group.

Claims

1. A terminal device that serves as a terminal of an information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information in the form of item values of user information management items,

the terminal device comprising

a group setting screen providing unit that provides a group setting screen for setting a group in the information processing apparatus, the group being specified by whether the user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item, the user information managing server managing whether the user belongs to the group.

2. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising

an authorization setting screen providing unit that provides an authorization setting screen for setting conditions for causing the user information managing server to authorize a user to use the information processing apparatus, the conditions being set in the information processing apparatus.

3. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising

a usage restriction setting screen providing unit that provides a usage restriction setting screen for setting conditions for putting usage restrictions on users to use the information processing apparatus for each group, the conditions being set in the information processing apparatus.

4. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the group setting screen providing unit provides such a group setting screen as to set the conditions through a character inputting operation.

5. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the group setting screen providing unit provides such a group setting screen as to set the conditions through a user information management item selecting operation and an item value selecting operation.

6. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the group setting screen providing unit provides such a group setting screen as to set the conditions through a user information management item selecting operation, an item value selecting operation, and an “

AND, OR, NOT”

selecting operation.

7. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the group setting screen providing unit provides such a group setting screen as to set the group by handling an icon that represents the group.

8. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a combining operation can be performed to combine a plurality of groups into one group on the group setting screen or the usage restriction setting screen.

9. The terminal device as claimed in claim 8, wherein a dividing operation can be performed to divide one group into a plurality of groups on the group setting screen or the usage restriction setting screen.

10. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a referring operation can be performed to refer to a user who belongs to a group on the group setting screen or the usage restriction setting screen.

11. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a copying operation can be performed to copy a group on the group setting screen or the usage restriction setting screen.

12. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a deleting operation can be performed to delete a group on the group setting screen or the usage restriction setting screen.

13. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the group is written in XML and is set by SOAP in the information processing apparatus.

14. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user information managing server is a LDAP server.

15. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus is an image forming apparatus.

16. An information processing method that is utilized by a terminal device serving as a terminal of an information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information as the item values of user information management items,

the information processing method comprising the step of

providing a group setting screen for setting a group in the information processing apparatus, the group being specified by whether the user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item, the user information managing server managing whether the user belongs to the group.

17. The information processing method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising the step of

providing an authorization setting screen for setting conditions for causing the user information managing server to authorize a user to use the information processing apparatus, the conditions being set in the information processing apparatus.

18. The information processing method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising the step of

providing a usage restriction setting screen for setting conditions for putting usage restrictions on users to use the information processing apparatus for each group, the conditions being set in the information processing apparatus.

19. An information processing program that causes a computer to perform an operation by an information processing method that is utilized by a terminal device serving as a terminal of an information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information as the item values of user information management items,

the information processing method comprising the step of

providing a group setting screen for setting a group in the information processing apparatus, the group being specified by whether the user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item, the user information managing server managing whether the user belongs to the group.

20. A recording medium on which an information processing program is recorded

the information processing program causing a computer to perform an operation by an information processing method that is utilized by a terminal device serving as a terminal of an information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information as the item values of user information management items,

the information processing method comprising the step of

providing a group setting screen for setting a group in the information processing apparatus, the group being specified by whether the user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item, the user information managing server managing whether the user belongs to the group.

21. An information processing apparatus that is a client of a user information managing server that manages user information in the form of item values of user information management items,

a group being set in the information processing apparatus by a terminal of the information processing apparatus, the group being specified by whether user information of a user satisfies the condition that a predetermined item value is stored in a predetermined user information management item, the user information managing server managing whether the user belongs to the group.

22. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein conditions for causing the user information managing server to authorize a user to use the information processing apparatus can be set in the information processing apparatus by the terminal of the information processing apparatus.

23. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein conditions for putting usage restrictions on users to use the information processing apparatus for each group can be set in the information processing apparatus by the terminal of the information processing apparatus.