公开(公告)号：US20190238707A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264192

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Keiji TSUDA ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Zhenyu SUN ,  Tatsuya HIWATARI

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/44

CPC classification number: H04N1/00938 ,  H04N1/00244 ,  H04N1/00326 ,  H04N1/00344 ,  H04N1/4426 ,  H04N2201/0094

Abstract: Provided is an image forming system capable of updating internal data of an external device according to an instruction from a server. An app-installing unit installs an application for updating internal data of card reader in an image forming apparatus. An internal-data-updating unit causes the image forming apparatus to execute the application installed by the app-installing unit. An app-acquiring unit acquires the application from the server according to an instruction from the server. An app-executing unit executes the app acquired by the app-acquiring unit and updates the external device to the internal data. As a result, the internal data of the card reader is updated.

公开(公告)号：US20190236662A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264235

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Zhenyu SUN ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Keiji TSUDA ,  Tatsuya HIWATARI

IPC: G06Q30/04 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06Q30/04 ,  G06F3/1222 ,  G06F3/1238 ,  G06F3/1288 ,  H04L63/08

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of flexible billing. The server manages billing of users that use image forming apparatuses. An authentication-acquiring unit acquires authentication information of users from image forming apparatuses. An authenticating unit authenticates users according to authentication acquired by the authentication-acquiring unit. A billing unit performs billing in which user billing information, which is billing information in units of the users authenticated by the authenticating unit, is applied to apparatus billing information, which is billing information in units of image forming apparatuses. A billing-control-transmitting unit transmits billing control information for controlling functions of the image forming apparatuses in correspondence with billing by the billing unit.

公开(公告)号：US20200089451A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16533518

申请日：2019-08-06

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tatsuya HIWATARI ,  Keiji TSUDA ,  Masafumi SATO

IPC: G06F3/12

Abstract: A device communication portion 35a transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus 20 and obtains information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20. A server communication portion 35b transmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatus 20 to a server 40 which manages the information of the image forming apparatus 20. The device communication portion 35a obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20 with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20190235806A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264213

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Zhenyu SUN ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Tatsuya HIWATARI ,  Keiji TSUDA

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1222 ,  G06F3/1238 ,  G06F3/1288

Abstract: Provided is a server that is capable of directly sending a notification of an error to a non-registered user who is not authenticated and permitted to use an image forming apparatus. An authenticating unit performs authentication permission according to authentication information of a user. A notification-event-setting unit sets to send a notification of a server error as a recognizable event to a non-registered user, who is not registered to perform authentication permission by the authenticating unit. An event-notifying unit notifies about the event set by the notification-event-setting unit when the error actually occurs.

公开(公告)号：US20190238693A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264271

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tatsuya HIWATARI ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Zhenyu SUN ,  Keiji TSUDA

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  G06F3/12

CPC classification number: H04N1/00344 ,  G06F3/1204 ,  G06F3/126 ,  G06F3/1273 ,  G06F3/1288 ,  H04N1/00244

Abstract: Provided is a management server that flexibly filters report items under various conditions according to a customer environment. The management server manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses 3 via a network. The management server includes a management information database (management information DB), a filtering-setting-receiving unit, and a report-generating unit. The management information database registers job histories of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The filtering-setting-receiving unit receives a filtering setting for the management information database by SQL. The report-generating unit executes the SQL received by the filtering-setting-receiving unit for the management information database and generates a report based on the job histories.

公开(公告)号：US20190235810A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264147

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tatsuya HIWATARI ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Zhenyu SUN ,  Keiji TSUDA

IPC: G06F3/12 ,  G06F21/60

CPC classification number: G06F3/1238 ,  G06F3/1205 ,  G06F3/1222 ,  G06F21/608

Abstract: Provided is an image forming system that reduces the time and labor of setting the printer driver of a user terminal. A common queue temporarily stores printing jobs transmitted from each user terminal. A plurality of individual queues is associated one-to-one with a plurality of image forming apparatuses. A printing-job-distributing unit distributes the printing jobs stored in the common queues to any of the plurality of individual queues. A printing-job-creation unit, based on the printer driver in which the output destination of the printing job is commonly set in the common queue, creates a printing job that includes a user name. The printing-job-distributing unit distributes the printing job to an individual queue based on the user name.

公开(公告)号：US20190235798A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264180

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tatsuya HIWATARI ,  Masafumi SATO ,  Zhenyu SUN ,  Keiji TSUDA

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1204 ,  G06F3/1203 ,  G06F3/1222 ,  G06F3/1238 ,  G06F3/126 ,  G06F3/1267 ,  G06F3/1276 ,  G06F3/1288 ,  G06F3/1296

Abstract: Provided is an image forming system that reduces time and effort of setting in a printer driver of a user terminal. The managing server includes a common queue that stores the print job transmitted from each user terminal, temporarily, a plurality of individual queues that is associated with the plurality of image forming apparatuses by one to one, an individual queue setting accepting part that accepts a setting of the individual queue for each user, a print job distributing part that distributes the print job to the accepted individual queue, a print job transmitting part that transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus associated with the individual queue. Each user terminal includes a print job generating part that generates the print job based on the printer driver set output destination of the print job to the common queue.