Remote e-mail printing
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKoji Kinoshita, Yohichiroh Higashizaki
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Abstract
An information providing server has information on plural printers. The information providing server provides a user of a portable terminal with the information on the plural printers by sending the information on the plural printers to the portable terminal. The portable terminal sends an e-mail to which a file to be printed is attached to a printer selected by the user. Each of the plural printers has a plurality of print conditions to which different e-mail addresses are respectively assigned. The printer that has received an e-mail specifies a print condition from an e-mail address indicating the destination of the e-mail. The printer then prints the file attached to the received e-mail under the specified print condition.
Claims12
A server, comprising:
- an address data memory unit which stores address data including a plurality of processing modes, and a plurality of different addresses which is assigned to the respective plurality of processing modes;
- a server-side receiving unit which receives a process execution instruction for a processing apparatus from an external terminal;
- and
- a server-side transmitting unit which transmits the address data stored in the address data memory unit to the external terminal, in response to the server-side receiving unit receiving the process execution instruction.
An information providing method, which is executed by a server which comprises an address data memory unit, wherein
- the address data memory unit stores address data including a plurality of processing modes, and a plurality of different addresses which is assigned to the respective plurality of processing modes, comprising:
- a server-side receiving step of receiving a process execution instruction for a processing apparatus from an external terminal;
- and
- a server-side transmitting step of transmitting the address data stored in the address data memory unit to the external terminal, in response to receiving the process execution instruction in the server-side receiving step.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for allowing a computer to serve as a server, wherein:
- the server comprises
- an address data memory unit which stores address data including a plurality of processing modes, and a plurality of different addresses which is assigned to the respective plurality of processing modes;
- a server-side receiving unit which receives a process execution instruction for a processing apparatus from an external terminal;
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- a server-side transmitting unit which transmits the address data stored in the address data memory unit to the external terminal, in response to the server-side receiving unit receiving the process execution instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.