SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160057177A1
• Filed: 03/04/2015
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ITO, Yasuhiro, YOKOYAMA, Toshiharu
• Application Number:
  US14/637,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057177A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration

Abstract

A server device includes a registering unit, a providing unit, and a receiving unit. The registering unit registers a user or a guest as a user or a guest of the server device. The providing unit provides a first service to the user and a second service to the guest, the second service being more restricted than the first service. The receiving unit receives an instruction to register a guest from an administrator having authorization to manage the server device. If the administrator has authorization to manage a different server device, the registering unit registers a user registered in the different server device in the server device as a guest.

Claims

1. A server device comprising:

a registering unit that registers a user or a guest as a user or a guest of the server device;

a providing unit that provides a first service to the user and a second service to the guest, the second service being more restricted than the first service; and

a receiving unit that receives an instruction to register a guest from an administrator having authorization to manage the server device,

wherein, if the administrator has authorization to manage a different server device, the registering unit registers a user registered in the different server device in the server device as a guest.

2. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the first service provided by the providing unit includes a service in which a log concerning the use of the server device by the user is stored by distinguishing the user from other users, and the second service provided by the providing unit includes a service in which a log concerning the use of the server device by the guest is stored without distinguishing the guest from other guests registered in the server device.

3. The server device according to claim 1, wherein:

the registering unit stores identification information of the different server device so as to register a user registered in the different server device as the guest; and

the providing unit provides the second service to a user registered in the different server device identified by the identification information stored by the registering unit.

4. The server device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a query unit that queries the different server device as to whether or not the administrator that has provided the instruction has authorization to manage the different server device,

wherein, upon receiving, from the different server device in response to the query, a response indicating that the administrator has authorization to manage the different server device, the registering unit registers a user registered in the different server device as the guest.

5. The server device according to claim 1, wherein, among users registered in the different server device, the registering unit registers a user having a certain attribute determined in the different server device as the guest.

6. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the registering unit registers, as the guest, a user which is registered in the different server device after the receiving unit has received the instruction.

7. The server device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an obtaining unit that obtains a maximum value of the number of users to be registered in the server device,

wherein, assuming that the receiving unit has received an instruction to register a user from the administrator of the server device and that the registering unit has registered the user in accordance with the instruction, if the number of users to be registered in the server device exceeds the maximum value obtained by the obtaining unit, the registering unit registers the user as a guest of the server device.

8. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of server devices; and

a guiding device that guides a user registered in one of the plurality of server devices to a server device of the plurality of server devices in which the user is registered as a user or a guest,

each of the plurality of server devices including

a registering unit that registers a user or a guest as a user or a guest of the server device,

a providing unit that provides a first service to the user and a second service to the guest, the second service being more restricted than the first service,

a receiving unit that receives an instruction to register a guest from an administrator having authorization to manage the server device, and

an instruction unit that instructs, if the registering unit registers a user registered in a different server device as the guest, the guiding device to guide the user to the server device,

wherein, if the administrator has authorization to manage a different server device, the registering unit registers a user registered in the different server device in the server device as a guest.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer of a server device to execute a process, the process comprising:

registering a user or a guest as a user or a guest of the server device;

providing a first service to the user and a second service to the guest, the second service being more restricted than the first service; and

receiving an instruction to register a guest from an administrator having authorization to manage the server device,

wherein, if the administrator has authorization to manage a different server device, a user registered in the different server device is registered in the server device as a guest.