Device, information processing system, and information processing method

• US 9,692,927 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2013
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Ando, Mitsuo, Hirokawa, Tomoya
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Huo Long
• Application Number:
  US14/089,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20140146363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,309 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00225 details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or network scanners using an image reading device as a local input to a computer H04N1/00241
• 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 1/00941 Interaction of different applications H04N1/00949 takes precedence; multiprogramming arrangements of computers G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A device includes an input part configured to input data, a first transmission part configured to transmit the data to a predetermined transmission destination, a second transmission part configured to transmit the data to a transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination, and a transmission control part configured to cause the second transmission part to transmit the data in response to receiving a request to transmit the data from the first transmission part.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing a plurality of application programs including a first application program and a second application program that are managed independent of each other, the first application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit data to a predetermined transmission destination, the second application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit the data to a transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination,

wherein the first application program, when executed by the processor, causes the device to

display a first screen;

receive a transmission request input on the displayed first screen, the transmission request including a request to transmit the data, the request to transmit the data specifying the predetermined transmission destination as a transmission destination of the data;

display a second screen indicating completion of transmission of the data requested by the transmission request in response to receiving the transmission request, the second screen being different from the first screen; and

delegate execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to receiving the transmission request,

wherein the second application program, when executed by the processor, causes the device to

execute the received transmission request to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program, and

wherein the first application program further causes the device to delegate execution of a request to execute a process related to a service provided via a network to the second application program, and the second application program causes the device to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination after executing the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network, when the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network is included in the transmission request whose execution is delegated to the second application program.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the transmission request includes information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and

wherein the first application program further causes the device to determine whether a predetermined character string is included in the information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and to delegate the execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to determining that the predetermined character string is included in the information.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second application program causes the device to transmit the data to an information processing apparatus configured to execute a preset process on the transmitted data, in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program.

4. The device as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the first application program further causes the device to transmit the data to the predetermined transmission destination in response to determining that the predetermined character string is absent from the information.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network is an authentication request for authentication of a user who logs on to the device,

wherein the second application program further causes the device to transmit the authentication request to the predetermined transmission destination, and

wherein the first application program causes the device to delegate the request to transmit the data to the second application program, in response to a success of the authentication of the user requested by the authentication request.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the second application program further causes the device to transmit an additional authentication request for authentication of the user to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program, and to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination in response to a success of the authentication of the user requested by the additional authentication request.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the first application program causes the device to transmit the data only to the predetermined transmission destination, and

wherein the second application program is installed in the device after installation of the first application program in the device, to enable the device to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first application program causes the device to display the second screen without the first application program causing the device to execute the transmission request in response to receiving the transmission request.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination provides the service provided via the network, the service provided via the network being one of a cloud service, a service provided by an application service provider, and a Web service.

10. An information processing method executed in a device that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing a plurality of application programs including a first application program and a second application program that are managed independent of each other, the first application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit data to a predetermined transmission destination, the second application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit the data to a transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination, the information processing method comprising:

the first application program, when executed by the processor, causing the device to display a first screen;

receive a transmission request input on the displayed first screen, the transmission request including a request to transmit the data, the request to transmit the data specifying the predetermined transmission destination as a transmission destination of the data;

display a second screen indicating completion of transmission of the data requested by the transmission request in response to receiving the transmission request, the second screen being different from the first screen; and

delegate execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to receiving the transmission request, and

the second application program, when executed by the processor, causing the device to

execute the received transmission request to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program,

wherein the first application program further causes the device to delegate execution of a request to execute a process related to a service provided via a network to the second application program, and the second application program causes the device to transmit the data to the transmission destination different from the predetermined transmission destination after executing the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network, when the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network is included in the transmission request whose execution is delegated to the second application program.

11. The information processing method as claimed in claim 10,

wherein the transmission request includes information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and

wherein the first application program further causes the device to determine whether a predetermined character string is included in the information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and to delegate the execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to determining that the predetermined character string is included in the information.

12. The information processing method as claimed in claim 11,

wherein the first application program further causes the device to transmit the data to the predetermined transmission destination in response to determining that the predetermined character string is absent from the information.

13. The information processing method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second application program causes the device to transmit the data to an information processing apparatus configured to execute a preset process on the transmitted data, in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program.

14. An information processing system including a device and at least one information processing apparatus connected to the device via a network, wherein the device includes

a processor;

and

a memory storing a plurality of application programs including a first application program and a second application program that are managed independent of each other, the first application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit data to a predetermined transmission destination, the second application program including instructions for causing the device to transmit the data to the at least one information processing apparatus,

wherein the first application program, when executed by the processor, causes the device to

display a first screen;

receive a transmission request input on the displayed first screen, the transmission request including a request to transmit the data, the request to transmit the data specifying the predetermined transmission destination as a transmission destination of the data;

display a second screen indicating completion of transmission of the data requested by the transmission request in response to receiving the transmission request, the second screen being different from the first screen; and

delegate execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to receiving the transmission request,

wherein the second application program, when executed by the processor, causes the device to

execute the received transmission request to transmit the data to the at least one information processing apparatus in response to the execution of the transmission request being delegated to the second application program, and

wherein the first application program further causes the device to delegate execution of a request to execute a process related to a service provided via the network to the second application program, and the second application program causes the device to transmit the data to the at least one information processing apparatus after executing the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network, when the request to execute the process related to the service provided via the network is included in the transmission request whose execution is delegated to the second application program.

15. The information processing system as claimed in claim 14,

wherein the transmission request includes information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and

wherein the first application program further causes the device to determine whether a predetermined character string is included in the information indicating the predetermined transmission destination, and to delegate the execution of the transmission request to the second application program in response to determining that the predetermined character string is included in the information.

16. The information processing system as claimed in claim 15,

wherein first application program further causes the device to transmit the data to the predetermined transmission destination in response to determining that the predetermined character string is absent from the information.

17. The information processing system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the at least one information processing apparatus is configured to execute a preset process on the transmitted data.

18. The information processing system as claimed in claim 14,

wherein the at least one information processing apparatus is configured to transmit the data to a transmission destination stored in correlation with user information in the at least one information processing apparatus.