Information processing program product, information processing apparatus, and information processing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9921784-B2
Application number	US-201515308701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2015
Priority date	Jun 20, 2014
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is connected to one or more apparatuses via a network and includes a first acquisition unit that acquires communication information for communicating with any of the one or more apparatuses and authority information for writing the communication information to a predetermined information medium, a determination unit that determines whether the writing the communication information to the information medium is permitted based on the acquired authority information, and an updating unit that writes the communication information to the information medium when it is determined that the writing the communication information is permitted, to update the information medium with the written communication information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program recorded thereon that is executable by a processor of an information processing apparatus connected to one or more apparatuses via a network, the program when executed causing the processor to:
acquire (a) communication information for communicating with a target apparatus among the one or more apparatuses and (b) authority information for writing the communication information to a predetermined information medium, the authority information being associated with a specified user of the information processing apparatus;
determine whether the writing of the communication information to the information medium by the information processing apparatus is permitted based on the acquired authority information; and
write the communication information to the information medium when it is determined that the writing of the communication information by the information processing apparatus to the information medium is permitted, to update the information medium with the written communication information, the written communication information enabling the specified user to transmit, from the information processing apparatus to the target apparatus, a job to be executed by the target apparatus.

2. The information processing program product according to claim 1 , wherein the program when executed further causes the processor to
acquire the communication information from the information medium, and
send a predetermined processing request to an apparatus indicated by the communication information acquired from the information medium, based on the acquired communication information.

3. The information processing program product according to claim 1 , wherein the communication information and the authority information are acquired when reading a predetermined code through an imaging device of the information processing apparatus.

4. The information processing program product according to claim 3 , wherein the program when executed further causes the processor to
acquire function information indicating a function executable by the target apparatus, and
write the communication information and the function information to the information medium.

5. The information processing program product according to claim 3 , wherein
the predetermined code is displayed on a display device of the target apparatus, and
the authority information is authority information which is given to a log-in user of the target apparatus having performed a code displaying operation related to the predetermined code.

6. The information processing program product according to claim 1 , wherein the information medium is an NFC chip and, when it is determined that the writing of the communication information to the information medium is permitted, the communication information is written to the information medium through near field communication to update the information medium with the written communication information.

7. The information processing program product according to claim 1 , wherein when it is determined that the writing of the communication information to the information medium is not permitted, the information medium is not updated with the written communication information, and the information processing apparatus nonetheless may be permitted to read the communication information of the information medium, based on the authority information.

8. An information processing apparatus connected to one or more apparatuses via a network, the information processing apparatus including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs causing the processor to:
acquire communication information for communicating with an apparatus among the one or more apparatuses and authority information for writing the communication information to a predetermined information medium, the authority information being associated with a specified user of the information processing apparatus;
determine whether the writing of the communication information to the information medium by the information processing apparatus is permitted based on the acquired authority information; and
write the communication information to the information medium when it is determined that the writing of the communication information by the information processing apparatus to the information medium is permitted, to update the information medium with the written communication information, the written communication information enabling the specified user to transmit, from the information processing apparatus to the target apparatus, a job to be executed by the target apparatus.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the program when executed further causes the processor to
acquire the communication information from the information medium, and
send a predetermined processing request to an apparatus indicated by the communication information acquired from the information medium, based on the acquired communication information.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the communication information and the authority information are acquired when reading a predetermined code through an imaging device of the information processing apparatus.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein
the predetermined code is displayed on a display device of the target apparatus, and
the authority information is authority information which is given to a log-in user of the target apparatus having performed a code displaying operation related to the predetermined code.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the information medium is an NFC chip and, when it is determined that the writing of the communication information to the information medium is permitted, the communication information is written to the information medium through near field communication to update the information medium with the written communication information.

13. An information processing system including one or more apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more apparatuses via a network, the information processing apparatus including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs causing the processor to:
acquire communication information for communicating with an apparatus among the one or more apparatuses and authority information for writing the communication information to a predetermined information medium, the authority information being associated with a specified user of the information processing apparatus;
determine whether the writing of the communication information to the information medium by the information processing apparatus is permitted based on the acquired authority information acquired; and
write the communication information to the information medium when it is determined that the writing of the communication information by the information processing apparatus to the information medium is permitted, to update the information medium with the written communication information, the written communication information enabling the specified user to transmit, from the information processing apparatus to the target apparatus, a job to be executed by the target apparatus.

14. The information processing system according to claim 13 , wherein the program when executed further causes the processor to generate a predetermined code including the communication information and the authority

Assignees

• Ichikawa Mikiya
• Okamura Tomoaki
• Ishida Akio
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ichikawa Mikiya
• Okamura Tomoaki
• Ishida Akio

Classifications

• G06F3/1222

  Increasing security of the print job · CPC title

• G06F3/12

  Digital output to print unit {, e.g. line printer, chain printer} · CPC title

• G06F3/1238

  Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04L63/083

  using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226) · CPC title