Service provision system, service provision method, and computer program product

• US 9,537,849 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Fujii, Yuu
• Primary Examiner(s): Gergiso, Techane
• Application Number:
  US14/337,362
• Publication Number:
  US 20150040187A1
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint

Abstract

A service provision system includes: a management information storage unit that stores management information for managing user identification information, device identification information, and service identification information in association with one another; an authentication information receiving unit that receives authentication information including user authentication information and device authentication information from a device connected via a network; a service specifying unit that specifies, when the authentication information is authenticated by an authentication unit, a service associated with the authentication information based on the authentication information and the management information; and a first execution unit that receives a use request of a mail distribution service from the first device connected via the network, composes a mail according to the use request of the mail distribution service received from the first device, and distributes the composed mail to a previously specified mail server connected to the service provision system via a network.

Claims

1. A service provision system that includes one or more information processing devices and provides a service to a device connected thereto via a network, comprising:

a management information storage unit that stores management information for managing user identification information for identifying a user, device identification information for identifying a first device, and service identification information for identifying a service registered as a use object in association with one another, the user identification information including first user identification information for identifying the user in the service provision system and second user identification information for identifying the user in the first device, the first user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system only if the first user identification information is registered in the service provision system, the second user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system even if the second user identification information is not registered in the service provision system;

an authentication information receiving unit that receives authentication information including user authentication information used for user authentication and device authentication information used for device authentication from the device connected via the network;

an authentication unit that executes authentication processing of the received authentication information;

a service specifying unit that specifies, when the authentication information is authenticated, a service associated with the authentication information based on the authentication information and the management information; and

a first execution unit that receives a use request of a mail distribution service from the first device connected via the network, composes a mail according to the use request of the mail distribution service received from the first device, and distributes the composed mail to a previously specified mail server connected to the service provision system via a network.

2. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein the first execution unit causes the first device to display a list of previously registered mail addresses, and distributes the mail using a mail address selected by a user from the list as a destination.

3. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein the first execution unit receives the mail address input by the user from the first device, determines whether to allow mail transmission to a domain of the received mail address, and distributes, when allowed, the mail using the mail address as a destination to the mail server.

4. The service provision system according to claim 1, further comprising a second execution unit that distributes the received data to a specified storage device connected to the service provision system via the network based on a predetermined condition.

5. The service provision system according to claim 4, wherein the second execution unit receives a use request of a distribution service of data from the first device connected via the network, and distributes the data received from the first device to the specified storage device connected to the service provision system via the network at a specified time being the predetermined condition according to the use request of the distribution service received from the first device.

6. The service provision system according to claim 5, wherein the second execution unit determines whether a distribution time is specified according to the use request of the distribution service received from the first device, temporarily stores the data when the distribution time is specified, and then distributes the data to the storage device at the specified time.

7. The service provision system according to claim 4, wherein the second execution unit receives, when the first device connected via the network receives a facsimile, a use request of a distribution service of the facsimile from the first device, and distributes image data received by the first device to a specified storage device connected to the service provision system via the network according to the use request being the predetermined condition.

8. The service provision system according to claim 7, wherein before the second execution unit receives the use request of the distribution service of the facsimile from the first device, the authentication information receiving unit previously receives the authentication information from the first device, and the authentication unit previously performs authentication processing on the authentication information.

9. The service provision system according to claim 4, wherein the second execution unit monitors whether data is stored in a specified storage device connected via the network according to a use request of a folder monitoring service, acquires, when the data is stored in the storage device, which is the predetermined condition, the data via the network, and transmits the acquired data to another specified storage device.

10. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein

the management information storage unit stores the management information for managing organization identification information for identifying an organization, the user identification information, the device identification information, and the service identification information in association with one another,

the authentication information receiving unit receives authentication information including organization authentication information used for organization authentication, the user authentication information, and the device authentication information from the first device connected via the network, and

the service specifying unit specifies the service associated with the organization authentication information, the user identification information, and the device identification information.

11. The service provision system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a license information storage unit that stores license information in which first service identification information for identifying a first service out of the service identification information and being a license of the first service is associated with register information for registering the first service identification information as a use object;

a license authenticating unit that executes license authentication, in response to reception of a registration request including the first service identification information and the registration information, based on the received first service identification information and registration information, and based on the license information; and

a first registration unit that registers the received first service identification information as a use object of the service in the management information when the license is authenticated.

12. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein

the management information storage unit stores the first user identification information and the second user identification information as the user identification information for identifying a user who logs in to the service provision system,

the authentication information receiving unit receives either one of the first user authentication information and the second user authentication information being user identification information of the user authenticated by another authentication unit, as the user authentication information used for user authentication from the device connected via the network, and

the authentication unit executes user authentication, when the authentication information receiving unit receives the first user authentication information, based on the first user authentication information and the first user identification information, and executes user authentication, when the authentication information receiving unit receives the second user authentication information, based on the second user authentication information and the second user identification information.

13. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein

the management information storage unit stores third user authentication information being authentication information for the user logging in to an external service connected to the service provision system via a network, and,

when the processing according to the received use request includes processing of cooperating with the external service,

the first execution unit executes login processing to the external service based on the third user authentication information authenticated by the authentication unit.

14. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein the first execution unit includes:

an execution request storage unit that stores execution request information for data processing requested to be executed;

a data processing control unit that registers execution request information for causing specific data processing to be executed in the execution request storage unit according to the use request; and

a plurality of data processing units each of which executes data processing according to execution request information for predetermined data processing, from among pieces of execution request information registered in the execution request storage unit, and

each of the data processing units registers, when next data processing is to be performed as a result of executing data processing, execution request information for the next data processing in the execution request storage unit.

15. The service provision system according to claim 14, wherein each of the data processing units includes a data processing unit that registers the execution request information for the next data processing in the execution request storage unit after generating a plurality of pieces of the execution request information according to the execution request information.

16. A service provision method executed by a service provision system that includes one or more information processing devices and provides a service to a device connected thereto via a network, the method comprising:

storing management information for managing user identification information for identifying a user, device identification information for identifying a first device, and service identification information for identifying a service registered as a use object in association with one another in a management information storage unit, the user identification information including first user identification information for identifying the user in the service provision system and second user identification information for identifying the user in the first device, the first user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system only if the first user identification information is registered in the service provision system, the second user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system even if the second user identification information is not registered in the service provision system;

receiving authentication information including user authentication information used for user authentication and device authentication information used for device authentication from the device connected via the network;

executing authentication processing of the received authentication information;

specifying, when the authentication information is authenticated, a service associated with the authentication information based on the authentication information and the management information; and

executing including receiving a use request of a mail distribution service from the first device connected via the network, composing a mail according to the use request of the mail distribution service received from the first device, and distributing the composed mail to a previously specified mail server connected to the service provision system via a network.

17. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing an information processing program causing an information processing device to function as a service provision system that provides a service to a device connected thereto via a network, the program causing the information processing device to function as:

a management information storage unit that stores management information for managing user identification information for identifying a user, device identification information for identifying a first device, and service identification information for identifying a service registered as a use object in association with one another, the user identification information including first user identification information for identifying the user in the service provision system and second user identification information for identifying the user in the first device, the first user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system only if the first user identification information is registered in the service provision system, the second user identification information allowing the user to login to the service provision system even if the second user identification information is not registered in the service provision system;

an authentication information receiving unit that receives authentication information including user authentication information used for user authentication and device authentication information used for device authentication from the device connected via the network;

an authentication unit that executes authentication processing of the received authentication information;

a service specifying unit that specifies, when the authentication information is authenticated, a service associated with the authentication information based on the authentication information and the management information; and

a first execution unit that receives a use request of a mail distribution service from the first device connected via the network, composes a mail according to the use request of the mail distribution service received from the first device, and distributes the composed mail to a previously specified mail server connected to the service provision system via a network.