SPECIFIED EQUIPMENT, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM

• US 20200137236A1
• Filed: 09/11/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: MORI, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US16/567,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20200137236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00344 with a management, maintenance, service or repair apparatus monitoring H04N1/00002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00933 Timing control or synchronising H04N1/00928, H04N1/00931, H04N1/00954 and H04N1/0096 take precedence
• 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 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

Specified equipment that communicates with a plurality of apparatuses to transmit execution information for executing a job of a user to an management server on a side of cloud including a circuitry that performs receiving the execution information of the job which is created by the plurality of apparatuses as a result of executing the job by the user who is successfully authenticated in an authentication server, and transmitting the execution information received from the plurality of apparatuses to the management server every predetermined time period.

Claims

1. Specified equipment that communicates with a plurality of apparatuses to transmit execution information for executing a job of a user to an management server on a side of cloud, the specified equipment comprising:

a circuitry that performs

receiving the execution information of the job which is created by the plurality of apparatuses as a result of executing the job by the user who is successfully authenticated in an authentication server, and

transmitting the execution information received from the plurality of apparatuses to the management server every predetermined time period.

2. The specified equipment according to claim 1, the circuitry further performs

acquiring a remaining usable amount for the user of using the plurality of apparatuses from the management server storing the remaining usable amount and causing the acquired remaining usable amount to synchronize with the management server, and

transmitting the remaining usable amount for the user acquired from the management server to the apparatus authenticating the user by the authentication server.

3. The specified equipment according to claim 2,

wherein, in a case of the receiving the execution information of the job, which is created by the plurality of apparatuses as a result of executing the job by the user who is successfully authenticated in an authentication server, and

wherein the transmitting the remaining usable amount transmits the remaining usable amount for the user updated by the acquiring the remaining usable amount and causing the acquired remaining usable amount to synchronize with the management server to the apparatus authenticating the user by the authentication server.

4. The specified equipment according to claim 2,

wherein the acquiring the remaining usable amount and causing the acquired remaining usable amount to synchronize with the management server acquires function usage limiting information for the user of using the apparatus from the management server, and

wherein the transmitting the remaining usable amount transmits the remaining usable amount limiting information acquired from the management server to the apparatus authenticating the user by the authentication server.

5. The specified equipment according to claim 1,

wherein the specified equipment has a function for executing the job, and

wherein the transmitting the execution information transmits the execution information received from the plurality of apparatuses to the management server every predetermined amount or every predetermined time period, the transmitted execution information including the execution information generated by the specified equipment.

6. The specified equipment according to claim 1, the circuitry further performs

acquiring setup information related to setting of the plurality of apparatuses from the management server that stores the setup information, and

transmitting the setup information acquired by the acquiring to the plurality of apparatuses.

7. The specified equipment according to claim 6,

wherein the setup information is an IP address of the authentication server, setting of whether to delete or store a job after executing the job, or a type of an IC card reader used for the authentication.

8. The specified equipment according to claim 6, the circuitry further performs

receiving setting of address information used for the plurality of apparatuses to receive a setup change report of the setup information from the specified equipment from the plurality of apparatuses, wherein in a case where the receiving the setting of the address information receives a report indicating that the setup information is changed from the management server,

the receiving the setting of the address information transmits the setup change report to the address information.

9. A system comprising:

a plurality of apparatus;

an management server on a cloud; and

specified equipment that transmits execution information of a job for a user to the management server through a network,

wherein the specified equipment includes a circuitry that performs

receiving execution information of the job which is created by the plurality of apparatuses as a result of executing the job by the user who is successfully authenticated in the authentication server, and

transmitting the execution information received from the plurality of apparatuses to the management server every predetermined time period, wherein each of the plurality of apparatuses includes executing the job,

creating the execution information related to execution of the job by the executing the job, and

transmitting execution information created by the creating the execution information to the specified equipment.