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US 9,069,503 B2Granted
Apparatus, system, and method of output distribution, and recording medium storing output distribution control program
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTeruaki Takahashi
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Abstract
An output distribution system extracts user-specific information from job data that is generated in response to an output request, obtains terminal-specific information that identifies a terminal that is associated with a user specified by user-specific information, and transmits drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the identified terminal.
Claims8
An output distribution server apparatus, comprising a processor configured to:
- extract user-specific information from job data, the job data being generated in response to an output request input by a user using a terminal that accesses services provided by a first terminal server apparatus via a second terminal server apparatus;
- request a database server apparatus to provide output destination information based on the user-specific information of the job data, wherein the output destination information includes terminal-specific information for identifying a terminal that is associated with the user specified by the user-specific information of the job data, the terminal-specific information being obtained using association data indicating an association between user-specific information and terminal-specific information, the association information being managed by the second terminal server apparatus;
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- an interface configured to transmit drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the output destination information provided by the database server apparatus to cause the output destination to process the job data based on the output request.
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A database server apparatus, comprising:
- a first interface configured to receive, from an output distribution server apparatus, a request to obtain output destination information based on user-specific information extracted from job data, the job data being generated in response to an output request input by a user using a terminal that accesses services provided by a first terminal server apparatus via a second terminal server apparatus;
- a second interface configured to send an inquiry to the second terminal server apparatus to obtain association data indicating an association between user-specific information and terminal-specific information, the association information being managed by the second terminal server apparatus;
- a processor configured to obtain, using the association data, terminal-specific information that identifies a terminal associated with the user specified by the user-specific information;
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- a third interface configured to send, to the output distribution server apparatus, the terminal-specific information indicating the terminal associated with the user specified by the user-specific information, as the output destination information to cause the output distribution server apparatus to transmit drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the output destination information.
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A method, comprising:
- extracting user-specific information from job data, the job data being generated in response to an output request input by a user using a terminal that accesses services provided by a first terminal server apparatus via a second terminal server apparatus;
- sending a request to a database server apparatus to provide output destination information based on the user-specific information of the job data, wherein the output destination information includes terminal-specific information for identifying a terminal that is associated with the user specified by the user-specific information of the job data, the terminal-specific information being obtained using association data indicating an association between user-specific information and terminal-specific information, the association information being managed by the second terminal server apparatus;
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- transmitting drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the output destination information provided by the database server apparatus to cause the output destination to process the job data based on the output request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.