System, information processing apparatus, and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10440074-B2
Application number	US-201715456945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2017
Priority date	Mar 17, 2016
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that can be connected to information terminals and a data storage device through a network, and includes: a storage request receiver that receives conference identification information, information terminal identification information for a user participating in the conference, conference material data, and a storage request of the conference material data; an authentication program generator that generates an authentication program for determining whether the conference material data is capable of being transmitted to any of the information terminals when the conference material data is transmitted to the information terminal based on correspondence information in which pieces of the information terminal identification information are at least correlated with respective pieces of conference identification information, in accordance with the storage request; and a storage controller that stores the conference material data contained in the storage request and the authentication program in the data storage device in a correlated manner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system including a plurality of information terminals, an information processing apparatus, and a data storage device, connectable through a network, the system comprising:
a correspondence information memory storage configured to store correspondence information, including a plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information for identifying the information terminals corresponding to a plurality of users participating in conferences in a one-to-one manner, at least correlated with respective pieces of conference identification information for identifying the conferences;
a storage request receiver configured to receive, from any of the plurality of information terminals, the respective pieces of conference identification information, the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information, conference material data to be used for a conference, and a storage request requesting storage of the conference material data in the data storage device;
at least one processor
configured to generate an authentication program for determining whether the conference material data stored in the data storage device is transmittable to any of the plurality of information terminals when the conference material data is transmitted to the information terminal, based on the correspondence information stored in the correspondence information memory storage in accordance with the storage request received by the storage request receiver and
configured to store the conference material data received by the storage request receiver and the authentication program generated, in the data storage device in a correlated manner;

a substitute restart request receiver configured to receive the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information and a conference substitute restart request from any of the plurality of information terminals,
the at least one processor further being configured to cause the authentication program stored in the data storage device to execute processing of determining whether the conference material data stored in the correlated manner with the authentication program is transmittable to the information terminal requesting conference substitute restart, based on the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information received by the substitute restart request receiver; and
a data transmitter configured to transmit the conference material data to the information terminal upon the authentication program authenticating transmission of the conference material data to the information terminal,
the at least one processor further being configured to
delete the conference material data that the data transmitter has transmitted to the information terminal from the data storage device, and
cause all of the authentication programs stored in the data storage device to execute processing, and wherein
the data transmitter is configured to transmit a list of respective pieces of corresponding conference identification information to the information terminal and is configured to transmit only the conference material data corresponding to the respective pieces of conference identification information selected from the list to the information terminal upon there being a plurality of pieces of the conference material data, that have been authenticated, to be transmitted to the information terminal.

2. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a conference material memory data storage configured to temporarily store therein the conference material data received by the storage request receiver; and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform control to delete the conference material data stored in the conference material memory data storage unit after the at least one processor performs control to store the conference material data and the authentication program in the data storage device in the correlated manner.

3. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to authenticate the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information upon a combination of the respective pieces of conference identification information and the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information received by the storage request receiver being present in the correspondence information, wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to generate the authentication program upon the at least one processor authenticating the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein
the authentication program includes a table into which the respective pieces of conference identification information and the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information in the correspondence information are written and an execution file for determining whether the information terminal requesting to acquire the conference material data is capable of acquiring the conference material data based on determination of whether the plurality of pieces of information terminal identification information of the information terminal has been written into the table.

5. An information processing apparatus, connectable to a plurality of information terminals and a data storage device through a network, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a storage request receiver configured to receive, from any of the plurality of information terminals, conference identification information for identifying a conference, information terminal identification information for identifying an information terminal that a user participating in the conference possesses, conference material data to be used for the conference, and a storage request requesting storage of the conference material data in the data storage device;
at least one processor
configured to generate an authentication program for determining whether the conference material data stored in the data storage device is transmittable to any of the plurality of information terminals when the conference material data is transmitted to the information terminal, based on correspondence information in which pieces of the information terminal identification information are at least correlated with respective pieces of conference identification information, in accordance with the storage request received by the storage request receiver and
configured to store the conference material data contained in the storage request received by the storage request receiver and the authentication program generated, in the data storage device in a correlated manner;

a substitute restart request receiver configured to receive the pieces of the information terminal identification information and a conference substitute restart request from any of the plurality of information terminals;
the at least one processor further being configured to cause the authentication program stored in the data storage device to execute processing of determining whether the conference material data stored in the correlated manner with the authentication program is transmittable to the information terminal requesting conference substitute restart, based on the pieces of information terminal identification information received by the substitute restart request receiver; and
a data transmitter configured to transmit the conference material data to the information terminal upon the authentication program authenticating transmission of the conference material data to the information terminal;
the at least one processor further being configured to
delete the conference material data that the data transmitter has transmitted to the information terminal from the data storage device,

Assignees

• Sasaki Tohru
• Ikkanzaka Hiroaki
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasaki Tohru
• Ikkanzaka Hiroaki

Classifications

• H04N1/32101

  Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title · CPC title

• H04L63/126

  the source of the received data · CPC title

• H04N2201/3205

  of identification information, e.g. name or ID code (H04N2201/3209 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N1/4413

  involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN · CPC title

• H04N2201/0087

  Image storage device · CPC title