Abstract: An information processing method includes: activating a linkage function from a service of a linkage source to a service of a linkage destination, in response to determining that both of the service of the linkage source and the service of the linkage destination are usable by the contract user; and deactivating use of the linkage function for a login user managed by the contract user, in response to determining that the login user does not have use-permission for using the service of the linkage destination.

Abstract: An information processing system for controlling usage of a service to be provided to a user via a device, obtains information on an amount of resource usage by a server in providing the service, determines whether the amount of resource usage satisfies at least one condition of a plurality of conditions previously set, and when the amount of resource usage is determined to satisfy at least one condition of the plurality of conditions, performs, in accordance with the at least one condition, at least one of a plurality of control operations including a control operation for changing a screen displayed by the device and a control operation for restricting accumulation of the jobs in the second server.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: activating a linkage function from a service of a linkage source to a service of a linkage destination, in response to determining that both of the service of the linkage source and the service of the linkage destination are usable by the contract user; and deactivating use of the linkage function for a login user managed by the contract user, in response to determining that the login user does not have use-permission for using the service of the linkage destination.

Abstract: An information processing system, apparatus and method are provided. The information processing system receives input of a service scale of a user service from a terminal device, determines a charge plan, performance, and optimum number of virtual servers for providing the user service with a usage amount and number of devices included in the service scale that is received, by referring to a table in which the performance and the charge plan of the virtual server are associated with each other, and displays information including the charge plan and the number of virtual servers that are determined.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to, when to increase or decrease one or more services that can be used by a user, identify a second service that can be coordinated with a first service based on definition information defining coordination relationship settable between a plurality of services; and in response to identifying the second service, notify a service serving as coordination origin, information on a service serving as coordination destination, the service serving as the coordination origin and the service serving as the coordination destination selectable from the first service and the second service.

Abstract: An information processing system for controlling usage of a service to be provided to a user via a device, obtains information on an amount of resource usage by a server in providing the service, determines whether the amount of resource usage satisfies at least one condition of a plurality of conditions previously set, and when the amount of resource usage is determined to satisfy at least one condition of the plurality of conditions, performs, in accordance with the at least one condition, at least one of a plurality of control operations including a control operation for changing a screen displayed by the device and a control operation for restricting accumulation of the jobs in the second server.

Abstract: An information processing system for controlling usage of a service to be provided to a user via a device, obtains information on an amount of resource usage by a server in providing the service, determines whether the amount of resource usage satisfies at least one condition of a plurality of conditions previously set, and when the amount of resource usage is determined to satisfy at least one condition of the plurality of conditions, performs, in accordance with the at least one condition, at least one of a plurality of control operations including a control operation for changing a screen displayed by the device and a control operation for restricting accumulation of the jobs in the second server.

Abstract: An information processing system for controlling usage of a service to be provided to a user via a device, obtains information on an amount of resource usage by a server in providing the service, determines whether the amount of resource usage satisfies at least one condition of a plurality of conditions previously set, and when the amount of resource usage is determined to satisfy at least one condition of the plurality of conditions, performs, in accordance with the at least one condition, at least one of a plurality of control operations including a control operation for changing a screen displayed by the device and a control operation for restricting accumulation of the jobs in the second server.

Abstract: An information processing system, apparatus and method are provided. The information processing system receives input of a service scale of a user service from a terminal device, determines a charge plan, performance, and optimum number of virtual servers for providing the user service with a usage amount and number of devices included in the service scale that is received, by referring to a table in which the performance and the charge plan of the virtual server are associated with each other, and displays information including the charge plan and the number of virtual servers that are determined.

Abstract: An information processing system, comprising a user terminal that sends a process target data designated by a user to a remote storage system via a network, the process target data stored by the storage system in association with authority information that indicates the process target data; an authentication device that receives a registration request from the first circuitry of the user terminal, the registration request including the authority information and user identification information of the user, and stores the user identification information in association with the authority information according to the registration request; and a data processing device that receives an authorization request input by the user, the authorization request including the user identification information, and transmits the authorization request to the authentication device.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an apparatus connected to each other via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store data to be output by the apparatus, the data being associated with one or more user identifiers of one or more users different from a user of the information processing apparatus, and a first transmission unit to transmit to the apparatus the data associated with a user identifier received from the apparatus. The apparatus includes a second transmission unit to transmit a user identifier of a user of the apparatus to the information processing apparatus, a reception unit to receive from the information processing apparatus the data associated with the user identifier transmitted by the second transmission unit, and an output unit to output the data received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses. The information processing system includes an output data reception part that receives, via a network, output data or output target data; a storage process part that associates data identification information with the output data and stores them in a data storage part when the output data reception part receives the data identification information for the output data or output data generated based on the output target data or a request to issue the data identification information; a notification part that notifies of the data identification information via a network; and a transmission part that transmits, via a network, the output data associated with the user identification information received via a network.

Abstract: An information processing system including at least one computer and connected to an apparatus through a network includes a receiving unit that receives a request in which address information related to data is designated to a predetermined destination; a generating unit that generates authority identifying information for identifying operation authority of the apparatus in response to the request; a first memory unit that stores the authority identifying information and the address information by associating the authority identifying information with the address information; and a sending unit that sends the authority identifying information to a transmission source of the request, wherein the apparatus performs a process using the data related to the address information stored in the first memory unit in association with the authority identifying information when the authority identifying information is input.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses. The system receives, via a network, mail data including output data or output target data; and determines user identification information to be associated with the received output data or output data generated based on the received output target data from user information stored by using address information of a sender of the mail data or address information in transmission destinations of the mail data. When the user identification information is not determined from the address information of the sender but is determined from the address information in the transmission destinations, the system associates data identification information with the output data and stores them; notifies of the data identification information via a network; and transmits, via a network, the output data associated with the user identification information or the data identification information received via a network.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a data receiving part that receives output data from an information terminal; a data recording part that records the output data received by the data receiving part in a storage part in association with user information identifying a plurality of users; an information accepting part that accepts user information identifying a user; a first control part that controls output execution of output data included in the recorded output data that is associated with the user information accepted by the information accepting part; and a second control part that implements a control measure after the output data associated with the user information identifying the plurality of users is executed based on user information identifying one user of the plurality of users. The control measure is implemented to prevent output execution of the executed output data.

Abstract: An information processing system, which includes one or more computers, includes a reception part configured to receive a request addressed to one of multiple destinations, a generation part configured to generate authority identification information for identifying operation authority to operate an apparatus in a case where provision of the operation authority is authorized based on a condition that differs depending on a combination of the destination of the request and a transmission source of the request, and a transmission part configured to transmit the authority identification information to the transmission source of the request.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus connected to another terminal apparatus and an output apparatus via a network includes a proxy output request receiver unit receiving a proxy output request for data specifying a proxy user, a connecting information acquisition unit acquiring information for connecting to the other terminal apparatus in association with the proxy user from a management apparatus managing the information for connecting to the other terminal apparatus in association with the proxy user, a storing unit storing the data for which the proxy output request is received, a document information registration request unit transmitting a registering request to register document information relating to the proxy output request for the data using the information, and a data provider unit receiving an acquisition request for the data for which the proxy output request is received, and provide the output apparatus with the data for which the proxy output request is received.

Abstract: An information processing system, which includes one or more computers connected to an apparatus via a network, includes a reception part configured to receive a request addressed to a predetermined destination, a generation part configured to generate authority identification information for identifying operation authority to operate the apparatus, in response to reception of the request, a storage part configured to store the authority identification information generated by the generation part, and a transmission part configured to transmit the authority identification information to the transmission source of the request. The apparatus is configured to limit a value settable with respect to a setting related to a function of the apparatus, when the authority identification information stored in the storage part is input to the apparatus.

Abstract: A data process system including a unit receiving a mail data including an output data or a target output data via a network, a unit identifying a user-identification data to be associated with the output data based on an address data of a transmission source of the mail data by referring to first and second units, the first unit storing a first address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, the second unit storing a second address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, a unit storing data-identification data in correspondence with the output data in a unit in a case where the user-identification data is identified by referring to the second unit instead of by the first unit, a unit notifying the data-identification data via the network, and a unit transmitting the output data corresponding to the user-identification data or the data-identification data received via the network.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses that implement an output data reception unit that receives sets of output data via a network, an identification unit that identifies a user identifier to be associated with the received sets of output data by referring to user information stored in a user information storage unit, a storage processing unit that stores the sets of output data in a data storage unit in association with individual identifiers and a common identifier when the user identifier is not identified by the identification unit, a reporting unit that reports the common identifier via the network, and a transmission unit that receives the user identifier or a combination of an individual identifier and the common identifier via the network, and sends output data associated with the received user identifier or the received combination via the network.