US 8,479,095 B2Granted

Workflow executing device, preview creating method

AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.

InventorsShoh Nagamine, Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroshi Baba, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume

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Abstract

A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A workflow executing device connected to plural service providing units via a network, the workflow executing device comprising:

a workflow executing unit configured to execute a workflow including a combination of processes provided by the plural service providing units;
a receiving unit configured to receive a first data item;
a first data generating unit configured to generate first identification information for uniquely identifying the first data item received at the receiving unit;
a first preview property extracting unit configured to extract, as a first preview property from the first data item, an element including position information of an image configuration of the first data item;
a second data generating unit configured to generate second identification information for uniquely identifying a second data item obtained as a result of the first data item being processed by the plural service providing units;
a second preview property extracting unit configured to extract, as a second preview property, an element including position information of an image configuration of the second data item based on the second data item and the first preview property stored in association with the first identification information;
a preview property managing unit configured to manage preview properties by storing, in association with each other, the first identification information generated by the first data generating unit and the first preview property extracted by the first preview property extracting unit, and storing, in association with each other, the second identification information generated by the second data generating unit and the second preview property extracted by the second preview property extracting unit;
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a preview creating unit configured to create preview images based on the first and second preview properties respectively associated with the first and second identification information, based on the first and second identification information respectively generated by the first and second data generating units and stored in the preview property managing unit.

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A preview creating method performed by a workflow executing device connected to plural service providing units via a network, the workflow executing device including a workflow executing unit that executes a workflow including a combination of processes provided by the plural service providing units, the preview creating method comprising:

receiving a first data item;
generating first identification information for uniquely identifying the first data item;
analyzing a first data item;
extracting, as a first preview property from the first data item, an element including position information of an image configuration of the first data item;
generate second identification information for uniquely identifying a second data item obtained as a result of the first data item being processed by the plural service providing units;
extracting, as a second preview property, an element including position information of an image configuration of the second data item based on the second data item and the first preview property stored in association with the first identification information;
managing preview properties by storing, in association with each other, the first identification information generated by the first data generating unit and the first preview property extracted by the first preview property extracting unit, and storing, in association with each other, the second identification information generated by the second data generating unit and the second preview property extracted by the second preview property extracting unit;
and
creating preview images based on the first and second preview properties respectively associated with the first and second identification information, based on the first and second identification information respectively generated by the first and second data generating units and stored in the preview property managing unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/200,342Filed 23 Sep 2011
Priority: JP 2010-23486919 Oct 2010
Published: US 2012/0096348 A119 Apr 2012
Granted: 2 Jul 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
H04N 1/00222
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04N 1/0044
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
H04N 1/00498
User-machine interface; Control console: multi-lingual facilities