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.
Claims9
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a memory configured to include a plurality of folders, a first folder of the plurality of folders associated exclusively with a print setting for requesting execution of a print process, by an image processing apparatus other than the information processing apparatus, using a file stored in the first folder of the plurality of folders, and each of the remaining folders of the plurality of folders is associated exclusively with one of a plurality of image processing processes;
- circuitry configured to search for the file stored in the first folder of the plurality of folders;
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- a transmitter configured to transmit to the image processing apparatus, when the file is found, the file and a print job execution request for causing the image processing apparatus to execute the print process based on the print setting associated with the first folder.
A method for an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- searching, by circuitry of the information processing apparatus, for a file stored in a first folder of a plurality of folders in a memory of the information processing apparatus, the first folder of the plurality of folders associated exclusively with a print setting for requesting execution of a print process, by an image processing apparatus other than the information processing apparatus, using a file stored in the first folder of the plurality of folders, and each of the remaining folders of the plurality of folders is associated exclusively with one of a plurality of image processing processes;
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- transmitting, by a transmitter of the information processing apparatus to the image processing apparatus, when the file is found, the file and a print job execution request for causing the image processing apparatus to execute the print process based on the print setting associated with the first folder.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program which, when executed by an information processing apparatus, causes the information processing apparatus to perform a process comprising:
- searching for a file stored in a first folder of a plurality of folders in a memory of the information processing apparatus, the first folder of the plurality of folders associated exclusively with a print setting for requesting execution of a print process, by an image processing apparatus other than the information processing apparatus, using a file stored in the first folder of the plurality of folders, and each of the remaining folders of the plurality of folders is associated exclusively with one of a plurality of image processing processes;
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- transmitting, to the image processing apparatus when the file is found, the file and a print job execution request for causing the image processing apparatus to execute the print process based on the print setting associated with the first folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.