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US 10,275,695 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system for processing function requests received over different communication interfaces
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorToru Matsuda
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus that includes a plurality of communicating units, and that is capable of performing at least one function, includes an identifying unit and a processing unit. The identifying unit identifies the communicating unit connected to an external device. The processing unit performs processing corresponding to the communicating unit identified by the identifying unit, by using correspondence information that indicates correspondence between the communicating unit and regulation information.
Claims11
A multifunctional peripheral that forms an image, the multifunctional peripheral comprising:
- a main unit that includes at least a printer, processing circuitry, and a first network interface that communicates with an external device;
- and
- an operating unit that is provided integrally with the main unit, accepts an operation to the printer of the main unit, and communicates with the main unit as a separate apparatus, and includes processing circuitry and a second network interface that communicates with a mobile terminal,
- wherein when the external device is identified as being connected to the first network interface, the processing circuitry of the main unit refuses a print request without user verification to the multifunctional peripheral, and
- when the mobile terminal is identified as being connected to the second network interface, the processing circuitry of the main unit permits a print request that is received by the processing circuitry of the operating unit even without user verification to the multifunctional peripheral,
- wherein the processing circuitry of the main unit being further configured to
- perform (i) a first processing on a type of function request received via the first network interface and perform (ii) a second processing on the type of function request received via the second network interface based on a predetermined correspondence between each of the first network interface and the second network interface and regulation information corresponding to each of the first processing and the second processing respectively, the regulation information defining a rule for executing the type of function request and the regulation information corresponding to the first processing being different than the regulation information corresponding to the second processing,
- wherein the multifunctional peripheral includes a first operating system having a first software configuration and the operating unit includes a second operating system having a second software configuration which are different and independent of the first operating system and the first software configuration respectively, a connection between the operation unit and the main unit is established at an operating system layer, and
- wherein when the print request is received via the second network interface, the second operating system provides information identifying the second network interface to the first operating system.
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A method, implemented by a multifunctional peripheral that forms an image, the multifunctional peripheral including:
- (i) a main unit that includes at least a printer, processing circuitry, and a first network interface that communicates with an external device, and (ii) an operating unit that is provided integrally with the main unit, accepts an operation to the printer of the main unit, and communicates with the main unit as a separate apparatus, and includes a second network interface that communicates with a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- when the external device is identified as being connected to the first network interface, refusing, by the processing circuitry of the main unit, a print request without user verification to the multifunctional peripheral;
- and
- when the mobile terminal is identified as being connected to the second network interface, permitting, by the processing circuitry of the main unit, a print request that is received by the processing circuitry of the operating unit even without user verification to the multifunctional peripheral,
- wherein the method further includes, by the processing circuitry of the main unit,
- performing (i) a first processing on a type of function request received via the first network interface and performing (ii) a second processing on the type of function request received via the second network interface based on a predetermined correspondence between each of the first network interface and the second network interface and regulation information corresponding to each of the first processing and the second processing respectively, the regulation information defining a rule for executing the type of function request and the regulation information corresponding to the first processing being different than the regulation information corresponding to the second processing,
- wherein the multifunctional peripheral includes a first operating system having a first software configuration and the operating unit includes a second operating system having a second software configuration which are different and independent of the first operating system and the first software configuration respectively, a connection between the operation unit and the main unit is established at an operating system layer, and
- wherein when the print request is received via the second network interface, the second operating system provides information identifying the second network interface to the first operating system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.