Information processing apparatus, information management method, and information management program
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsFutoshi OSETO, Naritake KONDOH
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus, including a reading apparatus which reads an electronic recording card, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the electronic recording card via the reading apparatus and obtains read information; a generating unit which generates user management information of a user who owns the electronic recording card based on the read information obtained by the reading unit; and a holding unit which holds the user management information generated by the generating unit in a predetermined storage area.
Claims2
1-10. (canceled)
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a connecting unit configured to connect to a reading unit which reads information from a recording medium;
- a receiving unit configured to receive read information stored the reading unit, the read information including at least recording medium identification information;
- a first determining unit configured to determine whether the recording medium identification information received by the receiving unit has been registered in a storage unit, on which storage unit is recorded user management information which is information for each user and includes at least one information item;
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- a registering unit configured to register, with the storage unit, the at least one information item as user management information of a new user based on the read information if it is determined that the at least one information item has not been registered in the storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.