Notification control apparatus for replying to received information and notification control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazunori Hirabayashi
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Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment, a notification control apparatus comprises an interface and a control section. The interface receives first information sent from a terminal held by a user. The control section calculates, based on the information received by the interface, a distance from the notification control apparatus to the terminal held by the user, and carries out a control to send reply information to the terminal held by the user if the distance is within a given range, and not to send reply information if the distance is out of the given range.
Claims7
A image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a processor that executes instructions to perform operations, comprising:
- receiving, via an interface, first information sent from a terminal held by a user;
- calculating, based on the first information received by the interface, a distance from the image forming apparatus to the terminal held by the user, and carrying out a control to send reply information to the terminal held by the user if the distance is within a given range, and not to send reply information if the distance is out of the given range;
- sending second information to other image forming apparatuses if the distance is within a given range;
- and
- carrying out, if the second information is received from the other image forming apparatuses, a control so as not to send reply information to the terminal held by the user even if the first information is received.
A image forming method of the image forming apparatus, including:
- receiving, by a system comprising a processor, first information sent from a terminal held by a user;
- calculating, by the system, based on the received information, a distance from the image forming apparatus to the terminal held by the user;
- sending, by the system, reply information to the terminal held by the user if the distance is within a given range;
- not sending, by the system, reply information if the distance is out of the given range;
- sending, by the system, second information to other image forming apparatuses if the distance is within a given range;
- and
- carrying out, by the system, if the second information is received from the other image forming apparatuses, a control so as not to send reply information to the terminal held by the user even if the first information is received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.