INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20190327383A1
• Filed: 03/17/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: UGAI, Yoshikazu
• Granted Patent: US 11,399,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32539 Detecting or indicating the status of the output devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32545 Distributing a job or task among a plurality of input devices or a plurality of output devices

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from a communication device, and a switching section that switches an apparatus to process the information acquired from the communication device, between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus, in accordance with a state of the information processing apparatus and a state of the communication device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition section that acquires information from a communication device; and

a switching section that switches an apparatus to perform processing on the information acquired from the communication device, between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus, in accordance with a state of the information processing apparatus and a state of the communication device.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the switching section transfers all pieces of information acquired from the communication device to the other information processing apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the switching section acquires a state of the other information processing apparatus, and determines whether or not all the pieces of information are transferred to the other information processing apparatus, in accordance with the acquired state.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the switching section transfers some pieces of information acquired from the communication device, to the other information processing apparatus.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the switching section acquires a state of the other information processing apparatus and determines whether or not some pieces of the information are transferred to the other information processing apparatus, in accordance with the acquired state.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, whether or not a user is operating the information processing apparatus or whether or not the information processing apparatus is in a process of performing a job is provided as the state of the information processing apparatus.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein, in a case where the user is operating the information processing apparatus or the information processing apparatus is in the process of performing the job, the switching section transfers information acquired from the communication device to the other information processing apparatus.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the number of communication devices from which the information processing apparatus acquires information is provided as the state of the communication device.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein, in a case where the number of communication devices is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the switching section transfers information acquired from the communication device to the other information processing apparatus.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an information processing program causing a computer to function as:

an acquisition section that acquires information from a communication device; and

a switching section that switches an apparatus to process the information acquired from the communication device between an own information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus, in accordance with a state of the own information processing apparatus and a state of the communication device.

11. An information processing system comprising:

a first information processing apparatus; and

one or more second information processing apparatuses to be connected to the first information processing apparatus via a communication path,

wherein the first information processing apparatus includes

an acquisition section that acquires information from a communication device, and

a switching section that switches an apparatus to process the information acquired from the communication device between the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatuses, in accordance with a state of the first information processing apparatus and a state of the communication device.