US 11,537,331 B2 · Information processing apparatus, method therewith and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a section that detects posts of an output instruction and an output target from a user in a chat room, a registration section that registers the output target as an output target corresponding to the user or the chat room, in a case where identification information of an output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output target is detected, and a control section that performs control of inputting a post of requesting registration of the output device from the user into the chat room in a case where the identification information of the output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output instruction is detected.

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Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising:

a section that detects posts of an output instruction and an output target from a user in a chat room;
a control section that performs control of inputting a post requesting a registration of an output device from the user into the chat room in response to the output instruction and the output target in the detected post and further in response to a determination of no output device has been registered to perform an action of output in the chatroom;
a registration section that registers the output target as an output target corresponding to the user or the chat room, in a case where no output device has been registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output target is detected, wherein the registration section further registers an output device for the first time in the chatroom upon receiving a post including identification information of the output device in the chatroom and the identification information is not registered for other user or other chatroom, and wherein, in response to a determination where the identification information of the output device is already registered for the other user or the other chatroom, a post requesting the other user to release the output device is posted in the other chatroom corresponding to the other user;
a registration release section that automatically releases the identification information registered by the user or the chatroom without an explicit release instruction being input from the user or in the chatroom after the identification information is registered to the user or the chatroom for a predetermined period of time;
and
an output instruction section that instructs the output device registered via the chatroom to output the output target in accordance to the output instruction posted in the chatroom.

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An information processing method comprising:

detecting posts of an output instruction and an output target from a user in a chat room;
performing control of inputting a post requesting a registration of an output device from the user into the chat room in response to the output instruction and the output target in the detected post and further in response to a determination of no output device has been registered to perform an action of output in the chatroom;
registering the output target as an output target corresponding to the user or the chat room, in a case where no output device has been registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output target is detected, and further registering an output device for the first time in the chatroom upon receiving a post including identification information of the output device in the chatroom and the identification information is not registered for other user or other chatroom, and wherein, in response to a determination where the identification information of the output device is already registered for the other user or the other chatroom, a post requesting the other user to release the output device is posted in the other chatroom corresponding to the other user;
automatically releasing the identification information registered by the user or the chatroom without an explicit release instruction being input from the user or in the chatroom after the identification information is registered to the user or the chatroom and no post is inputted for a predetermined period of time;
and
instructing the output device registered via the chatroom to output the output target in accordance to the output instruction posted in the chatroom.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description12,710 words

Summary715 words

#This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2018-204121 filed Oct. 30, 2018.

#The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program.

#There is a software robot (hereinafter, a chatbot) that receives data included in a post of a user on a chat and performs specific processing on the data.

Brief description of the drawings18 figures

#Exemplary embodiment(s) of the present invention will be described in detail based on the following figures, wherein:

#FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration of an exemplary embodiment;

#FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating the exemplary embodiment;

Detailed description11,577 words

#Hereinafter, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, by using an example in which a chatbot that provides a printing service in accordance with a message from a user is used.

#Outline of System

#FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a message service system according to an exemplary embodiment. The message service system includes a user terminal A (10A) to a user terminal C (10C), a chat service server 14, a bot server A (16A) and a bot server B (16B), and a printer a (18a) to a printer c (18c).

Facts

Application

16/658,164Filed 21 Oct 2019

Priority

JP JP2018-20412130 Oct 2018

Published

US 2020/0133592 A130 Apr 2020

Granted

27 Dec 2022

Term ends

1 May 2040

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 193 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification11 codes

G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1224
Specifically adapted to use a particular technique: client or server resources management
G06F 3/1226
Client or server resources management: discovery of devices having required properties
G06F 3/1254
Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client: automatic configuration, e.g. by driver

Timeline

30 Oct 2018Priority claimedJP JP2018-204121
21 Oct 2019Application filedUS 16/658,164
28 Oct 2019Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.assignment of assignor's interest
30 Apr 2020PublishedUS 2020/0133592 A1
19 May 2021Assigned to Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.change of name
27 Dec 2022GrantedUS 11,537,331 B2
12 Oct 2026TodayWithin its term
1 May 2040Term endsEstimated, includes 193 days of adjustment

Information processing apparatus, method therewith and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

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