Abstract: An image scanning system comprising an image scanner and a terminal, wherein the image scanner comprises an image storing unit to store the image data; a terminal designation unit to designate the terminal as a transmission target; a terminal storing unit to record correspondence data to associate the image data with the terminal; an information notification unit to transmit a notification of information concerning image data to the designated terminal; a request receiving unit to receive a request for image data; and an image transmission unit to transmit the image data associated with the designated terminal for which the request has been received, and the terminal comprises: an indication unit to make an indication in response to receipt of the notification; and a request transmission unit to transmit the request to the image scanner when a user operation for requesting image data is received.

Abstract: In a printer connected to a network, email appended with link information is prepared for enabling an administrator to access information about the printer network terminal. The email is transmitted to the administrator terminal at a predetermined timing. Then, the administrator terminal accesses the information based on the link information appended to the email. As such, when a problem occurs in the printer, operations for resolving the problem can be quickly undertaken by the administrator.

Abstract: An image processing device is configured to provide a service relating to at least one of (1) the image data generated by the function of the image processing device and (2) image data representing the image to be formed, in response to a request from the image processing device. The image processing device may include a parameter designating unit, a service request unit, and a function implementation unit that is adapted to implement the function of the image processing device based on the service providing parameter designated by the parameter designating unit. The service providing device is provided with a service provision executing unit that is adapted to execute a process to provide the service to the image processing device after receiving the request from the service request unit provided to the image processing device.

Abstract: A system for managing a communication device having a first function of using a first communication protocol and a second function of using a second communication protocol is provided. The communication device is connected to a network including a first device using the first communication protocol and a second device using the second communication protocol. The system is provided with an inputting system that accepts an input for changing an operation regarding the communication of the communication device from a user, and a judging system that judges whether a trouble would arise in communication, in which the communication device is involved, based on the input inputted by the user through use of the inputting system.

Abstract: A first communication device includes: a control unit functioning as: a first selection unit which, for a first case where first type data is to be transmitted from the first communication device to a second communication device, selects one or more band guarantee values from a plurality of band guarantee values determined on a basis of transmission capability with which the first communication device transmits the first type data; a request unit which provides a first request command indicating the one or more band guarantee values to the second communication device; a communication unit that acquires a first response command indicating one band guarantee value selected from the one or more band guarantee values by the second communication device; and a first transmission execution unit which transmits the first type data to the second communication device in accordance with the one band guarantee value indicated by the first response command.

Abstract: A relay server may register combination information in an information memory. The combination information may include specific account information for a user who uses a communication device and first account information for the user. The first account information may be registered in the service providing server. The relay server may relay a data communication between the service providing server and the communication device by using the first account information included in the combination information including the specific account information in a case where the specific account information is received from the communication device after the combination information has been registered in the information memory. The data communication may be a communication for the communication device to receive a provision of a service from the service providing server.

Abstract: One of a plurality of setting screens corresponding to a plurality of printers may be generated based on original data stored in a server. Each of the plurality of setting screens may be for permitting designation of a content of each setting item matching a print condition that a corresponding printer is capable of performing. The server may acquire specific printer identification information for identifying a specific printer from a terminal device, store target data of a print target and supply specific data, which is for representing a specific setting screen corresponding to the specific printer, to the terminal device. The server may acquire setting information indicating a designated content of each setting item designated via the specific setting screen and supply to the specific printer print data according to the target data and the designated content of the each setting item indicated by the setting information.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device which has a first communication system that communicates with an external telephone device and a second communication system that communicates with an external computer. The communication device comprises a call unit and a data acquisition unit. The call unit makes a call to a telephone device designated by a user using the first communication system. If a destination of the call unit is decided by the user's designation, a data acquisition unit obtains data corresponding to the destination telephone device using the second communication system. By only making a call operation, the user can obtain the data corresponding to the destination telephone device from the communication device through the computer network which is a different kind of network from the telephone line network. That is, the communication device can reduce user's operations to access related devices over various kinds of networks.

Abstract: A planning device may store communication information related to whether or not two devices composing the combination are capable of directly communicating, decide a specific communication path using the communication information. The specific communication path may be a path capable of supplying print data acquired from target data in a storage device to the print device, generate procedure data for instructing one or more devices which are present on the specific communication path to perform one or more processes sequentially for realizing print of the target image and send the procedure data to a first device among the one or more devices. The first device may be a device that is to perform a process performed first among the one or more processes.

Abstract: A printing system, comprising a detecting system, which detects from a content to be printed a link destination address as an address assigned to information being associated with the content, a code symbol generating system, which generates a code symbol representing the link destination address detected by the detecting system in a format recognizable to a code symbol reader, a print control system, which controls the code symbol generated by the code symbol generating system to be appended to the content and a printer unit included in the print control system to print the contents along with the appended code symbol.

Abstract: An image scanning system comprising an image scanner and a terminal, wherein the image scanner comprises an image storing unit to store the image data; a terminal designation unit to designate the terminal as a transmission target; a terminal storing unit to record correspondence data to associate the image data with the terminal; an information notification unit to transmit a notification of information concerning image data to the designated terminal; a request receiving unit to receive a request for image data; and an image transmission unit to transmit the image data associated with the designated terminal for which the request has been received, and the terminal comprises: an indication unit to make an indication in response to receipt of the notification; and a request transmission unit to transmit the request to the image scanner when a user operation for requesting image data is received.

Abstract: One of a plurality of setting screens corresponding to a plurality of printers may be generated based on original data stored in a server. Each of the plurality of setting screens may be for permitting designation of a content of each setting item matching a print condition that a corresponding printer is capable of performing. The server may acquire specific printer identification information for identifying a specific printer from a terminal device, store target data of a print target and supply specific data, which is for representing a specific setting screen corresponding to the specific printer, to the terminal device. The server may acquire setting information indicating a designated content of each setting item designated via the specific setting screen and supply to the specific printer print data according to the target data and the designated content of the each setting item indicated by the setting information.

Abstract: A wireless telephone system may be provided with a relay device, first and second wireless telephone devices. The relay device may receive a call request from the first wireless telephone device, determine whether the second wireless telephone device is being located within a wireless communication area of the relay device, and send connection information of the second wireless telephone device to the first wireless telephone device on a condition that it is determined that the second wireless telephone device is being located within the wireless communication area of the relay device. The first wireless telephone device may send a connection request for a direct communication with the second wireless telephone device with the connection information of the second wireless telephone device as a destination thereof. The second wireless telephone device may receive the connection request.

Abstract: A computer program product comprises computer-readable instructions that cause a network management device (selected from one or more devices including one or more configured devices to which usage parameters necessary for using functions available via a network have already been set) to execute a process for managing the usage parameters comprising: a parameter acquisition step of acquiring one or more usage parameters already set to one of the configured devices from the configured device; and a candidate reporting step of reporting the usage parameters acquired in the parameter acquisition step as candidates for one or more usage parameters to be set to a setting target device which is connected to the network management device to be capable of data communication via a network and needing the setting of the usage parameters.

Abstract: An information processing device communicable with a server device and a name resolution server includes a sending and receiving system that sends a device name of the server device to the name resolution server, and receives an IP address corresponding to the device name from the name resolution server, an IP address storing system that stores at least one IP address, an access system that accesses application programs stored in the server device, an access control system that controls the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address, a communication protocol storing system that stores the communication protocol corresponding to the IP address used for a previous access, and an access control instructing system that instructs the access control system to control the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a content providing system is provided that includes a client device configured to receive contents and a server connected to the client device that provides contents to the client device. The client device may instruct the server to suspend the providing of contents, instruct the server how to handle unoffered contents after it instructs the server to suspend the providing of contents, and subsequently instruct the server lo restart the providing of contents. When the server is instructed to suspend the providing of contents by the client device, the server may be instructed by the client device to handle the unoffered contents by sequentially accumulating those contents. The server also may be instructed to discard one of the accumulated contents or to provide one of the accumulated contents to the client device.

Abstract: A computer program product comprises computer-readable instructions that cause a network management device (selected from one or more devices including one or more configured devices to which usage parameters necessary for using functions available via a network have already been set) to execute a process for managing the usage parameters comprising: a parameter acquisition step of acquiring one or more usage parameters already set to one of the configured devices from the configured device; and a candidate reporting step of reporting the usage parameters acquired in the parameter acquisition step as candidates for one or more usage parameters to be set to a setting target device which is connected to the network management device to be capable of data communication via a network and needing the setting of the usage parameters.

Abstract: An administrating device may send first usage information to a specific device based on specific identification information, including specific device identification information for identifying the specific device, specific user identification information for identifying a specific user, or a combination thereof, and each information within a memory in a case where the specific identification information is received from the specific device. The first usage information may be related to which type of function among the two or more types of functions the specific user is allowed to use in the specific device.

Abstract: A contents providing system includes a communication unit, a print control unit, an expendable amount deriving unit and an expendable amount storing control unit. The communication unit communicates with a contents server having contents data. The print control unit controls a printer to print the contents data and output a printed material imaging the contents data if the communication unit receives the contents data from the contents server. The expendable amount deriving unit derives an amount of an expendable item required for imaging the contents data in the printer. The expendable amount deriving unit derives the amount of the expendable item in accordance with a size of an image printed by the printer. The expendable amount storing control unit stores information representing the amount of the expendable item derived by the expendable amount deriving unit in a memory unit.

Abstract: A service providing system including a client device and a server is provided. The client device includes a function execution unit that executes one of the functions of the image reading and printing units in accordance with an execution command from the server, an error notification unit that notifies the server of occurrence of an error, a manner designation unit that requests a user to designate a manner of restarting, and a manner notification unit that sends a notification containing the manner of restarting to the server. The function execution unit restarts the execution of the function interfered by the error in accordance with a command requesting a restart of the function received from the server which has been notified of the manner of restarting.