Device and method for managing shared data, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

• US 9,313,369 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2014
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Yoneda, Shuji, Takahashi, Kenichi, Ozawa, Kaitaku, Mishima, Nobuhiro, Yamada, Masami, Asai, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Allen H
• Application Number:
  US14/290,604
• Publication Number:
  US 20140355037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 684 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.14, 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 358/1.2, 358/1.9, 707/758, 726/17, 726/28
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4406 Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity mechanisms actuated y cards, PIN or the like in apparatus for dispensing G07F7/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4426 involving separate means, e.g. a server, a magnetic card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

A shared data managing device is provided which manages shared data by setting an access right on a first user account basis. The first user account has a first identifier and first user information on a first user receiving a first service. The device includes an obtaining portion for obtaining, from a service providing system for a second service, a second identifier of a second user account used for the second service and second user information on a second user; a pairing portion for making a pair of the first identifier and the second identifier of the first user account and the second user account that are common in the first user information and the second user information; and a transmission portion for sending, to the service providing system, the shared data, the pair made, and the access right on a first user account basis.

Claims

1. A shared data managing device that manages shared data, the device comprising:

a management portion that manages a first user account that includes a first identifier and first user information on a first user who receives a first service associated with the first identifier;

an obtaining portion that obtains, from a service providing system that provides a second service, a second identifier of a second user account used for the second service and second user information on a second user associated with the second identifier;

a pairing portion that, when the first user information and the second user information include identical information, pairs the first identifier associated with the first user information with the second identifier associated with the second user information; and

a transmission portion that sends, to the service providing system, the shared data, the pair of the first identifier and the second identifier, and an access right set on the first user account.

2. The shared data managing device according to claim 1, comprising a printer that, when the service providing system informs the shared data managing device of a print command together with the first identifier or the second identifier, prints an image based on the shared data in accordance with the access right corresponding to the first user account that includes the first identifier, or, alternatively, in accordance with the access right corresponding to the first user account that includes the first identifier paired with the second identifier.

3. A shared data managing method that manages shared data the method comprising:

managing, with a device, a first user account that includes a first identifier and first user information on a first user who is to receive a first service associated with the first identifier;

obtaining, with the device, a second identifier of a second user account used for a second service and second user information associated with the second identifier from a service providing system;

when the first user information and the second user information include identical information, paring, with the device, the first identifier associated with the first user information with the second identifier associated with the second user information; and

sending, with the device, the shared data, the pair of the first identifier and the second identifier, and an access right set on the first user account, to the service providing system.

4. The shared data managing method according to claim 3, comprising:

receiving, with the device, authentication information that includes the first identifier from the second user who has logged in 25 with the second user account, and

confirming, with the device, authenticity of the second user who has logged in based on the authentication information;

wherein

when the authenticity of the second user who has logged in is confirmed, the first identifier received from 30 the second user is paired with the second identifier of the second user account of the second user.

5. The shared data managing method according to claim 3, wherein the second user account is a user account of a concerned party of an owner of the shared data, or, a user account of a party designated by the owner.

6. The shared data managing method according to claim 3, wherein

the first user information is contact information for the first user, and

the second user information is contact information for the second user.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a computer program used in a computer that manages shared data, the computer program causing the computer to:

manage a first user account that includes a first identifier and first user information on a first user who is to receive a first service associated with the first identifier;

obtain, from a service providing system that provides a second service, a second identifier of a second user account used for the second service and second user information on a second user associated with the second identifier;

pair the first identifier associated with the first user information with the second identifier associated with the second user information; and

send, to the service providing system, the shared data, the pair, and an access right set on the first user account.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein, when the service providing system informs the shared data managing device of a print command together with the first identifier or the second identifier, the computer program causes the computer to print an image based on the shared data in accordance with the access right corresponding to the first user account that includes the first identifier, or, alternatively, in accordance with the access right corresponding to the first user account that includes the first identifier paired with the second identifier.