Information processing system, method and recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTsutomu Ohishi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazumi Fujisaki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.
Claims15
An apparatus connected to an external apparatus, comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications and to include a plurality of storing destinations, each of said storing destinations being associated exclusively with only one of said plurality of applications;
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- a process control unit configured to, when data is stored in a storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations included in the storage unit from the external apparatus, execute a process using only the data stored in the storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations, by an application associated with the storing destination.
A method for permitting an external apparatus to use a storage unit connected to the external apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- providing a storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications and to include a plurality of storing destinations, each of said storing destinations being associated exclusively with only one of said plurality of applications;
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- when data is stored in a storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations included in the storage unit from the external apparatus, causing a process control unit to execute a process using only the data stored in the storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations, by an application associated with the storing destination.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process comprising:
- making a storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications and to include a plurality of storing destinations, each of said storing destinations being associated exclusively with only one of said plurality of applications, available to an external apparatus;
- and
- when data is stored in a storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations included in the storage unit from the external apparatus, causing a process control unit to execute a process using only the data stored in the storing destination of the plurality of storing destinations, by an application associated with the storing destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.