Communication control device, communication control method, and communication control system

• US 20070198845A1
• Filed: 02/08/2007
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Morikawa, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,913,171 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/121 Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00344 with a management, maintenance, service or repair apparatus monitoring H04N1/00002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• 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 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A receiving unit receives user-specific identification data from a display processing device connected via a network. A transmitting unit transmits operation screen data to the display processing device, which is for displaying an operation screen for receiving an operation from a user specified by the user-specific identification data received by the receiving unit.

Claims

1. A communication control device comprising:

a first receiving unit that receives user-specific identification data from a display processing device connected via a network; and

a transmitting unit that transmits operation screen data to the display processing device, the operation screen data for displaying an operation screen for receiving an operation from a user specified by the user-specific identification data received by the first receiving unit.

2. The communication control device according to claim 1, further comprising a second receiving unit that receives operation data from the display processing device, the operation data indicating an operation performed on the operation screen displayed on the display processing device based on the operation screen data, wherein

the transmitting unit transmits the operation screen data including a result of the operation performed based on the operation data received by the second receiving unit to the display processing device.

3. The communication control device according to claim 2, further comprising a control unit that performs, when the operation data is received by the second receiving unit, a process corresponding to an operation specified by the operation data.

4. The communication control device according to claim 1, further comprising an authenticating unit that performs an authenticating process of determining whether the display processing device is authorized to refer to the operation screen data, wherein

when it is determined that the display processing device is authorized to refer to the operation screen data, the transmitting unit transmits the operation screen data to the display processing device.

5. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the operation screen data is operation screen data being output to a display device of the communication control device used by a user.

6. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the operation screen data is operation screen data being output to the display processing device of a user logged into the communication control device via the network.

7. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit transmits the operation screen data to the display processing device in a format that can be viewed on a Web browser.

8. A communication control method comprising:

first receiving including receiving user-specific identification data from a display processing device connected via a network; and

transmitting operation screen data to the display processing device, the operation screen data for displaying an operation screen for receiving an operation from a user specified by the user-specific identification data received at the first receiving.

9. The communication control method according to claim 8, further comprising second receiving including receiving operation data from the display processing device, the operation data indicating an operation performed on the operation screen displayed on the display processing device based on the operation screen data, wherein

the transmitting includes transmitting the operation screen data including a result of the operation performed based on the operation data received at the second receiving to the display processing device.

10. The communication control method according to claim 9, further comprising controlling including performing, when the operation data is received at the second receiving, a process corresponding to an operation specified by the operation data.

11. The communication control method according to claim 8, further comprising authenticating including performing an authenticating process of determining whether the display processing device is authorized to refer to the operation screen data, wherein

when it is determined that the display processing device is authorized to refer to the operation screen data, the transmitting includes transmitting the operation screen data to the display processing device.

12. The communication control method according to claim 8, wherein the operation screen data is operation screen data being output to a display device of the communication control device used by a user.

13. The communication control method according to claim 8, wherein the operation screen data is operation screen data being output to the display processing device of a user logged into the communication control device via the network.

14. The communication control method according to claim 8, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the operation screen data to the display processing device in a format that can be viewed on a Web browser.

15. A communication control system that includes a display processing device and a communication control device connected via a network, wherein

the communication control device includes

a first receiving unit that receives user-specific identification data from a display processing device connected via a network, and

a first transmitting unit that transmits operation screen data to the display processing device, the operation screen data for displaying an operation screen for receiving an operation from a user specified by the user-specific identification data received by the first receiving unit, and

the display processing device includes

a second transmitting unit that transmits the user-specific identification data of a user logged into the communication control unit to the communication control unit,

a second receiving unit that receives the operation screen data from the first transmitting unit, and

a display processing unit that displays the operation screen based on the operation screen data received by the second receiving unit.