Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores history information regarding a use condition of the information processing apparatus to which a product has been introduced, an obtaining unit that obtains, from an external apparatus, analysis information for analyzing the history information, an analysis unit that analyzes the history information by executing the obtained analysis information, and an output unit that outputs an analysis result obtained by executing the analysis information.

Abstract: A flow generation device includes first and second reception units, an extraction unit, a control unit, and a generation unit. The first reception unit receives a selected service process selected from among multiple service processes for generating a sequential process flow. The control unit causes the selected service process received by the first reception unit and at least one of the upstream service processes and the downstream service processes extracted by the extraction unit to be displayed on a display. The generation unit generates a process flow in which the selected service process and at least one of the upstream service process and the downstream service process are defined.

Abstract: A data collection system includes one or more radio modules that are respectively detachably mounted on devices unconnected to a network and are enabled to transmit, via radio communication, raw data that is obtained by reading a signal from an input and output port of each of the devices, an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit that forms an image, a hub unit that collects the raw data from the one or more radio modules, and a transmitting unit that transmits the collected raw data, and a central server that collects information generated by the devices by performing a pre-process responsive to each of the devices on the raw data transmitted from the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A message communication apparatus includes an operating unit, and a controller. The operating unit activates a chat bot. The chat bot runs in a messaging service in which users exchange a message. The chat bot exchanges a message with a user. The controller causes, if the chat bot includes multiple chat bots activated through operation of the operating unit by multiple users, a chat bot activated by a specific user to respond to a message from the specific user.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: toner particles including an amorphous resin and a crystalline polyester resin including a polycondensate of a linear dicarboxylic acid and a linear dialcohol having 2 to 12 carbon atoms; and an external additive including silica particles having a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more. The electrostatic charge image developing toner satisfies the expression: 0.05??H2/?H1?0.95, wherein ?H1 (mW/g) is an endothermic energy amount based on an endothermic peak derived from the crystalline polyester resin in a first temperature increase process in differential scanning calorimetry according to ASTM D3418-8 (2008), and ?H2 (mW/g) is an endothermic energy amount based on an endothermic peak derived from the crystalline polyester resin in a second temperature increase process in differential scanning calorimetry according to ASTM D3418-8 (2008).

Abstract: A communication device includes a transmission unit and a processing unit. The transmission unit transmits a packet group including multiple packets. In a case in which the communication device itself is not trusted by a destination communication device to which to transmit the packet group, the processing unit performs a process of instructing each of multiple nodes of a management unit that registers and manages management information distributed among the multiple nodes to register header information as the management information, the header information being partial information of a header included in each packet of the packet group transmitted by the transmission unit.

Abstract: A transport member includes a shaft and plural blades that extend around the shaft so as to transport a target object that is to be transported and that is present around the plural blades in a direction in which the shaft extends by rotating with the shaft, the plural blades extending in at least a region of the transport member in the direction in which the shaft extends in such a manner that the plural blades are sequentially out of phase with one another in a direction in which the plural blades rotate. The at least a portion in the direction in which the shaft extends has flexibility.

Abstract: A data management system includes plural of devices in a hierarchical structure, wherein a first device belonging to a hierarchy other than a lowest hierarchy of the hierarchical structure among the plural devices includes a storage unit that stores entity data of a storage target item of the first device among metadata including plural items, and an acquisition unit that acquires link information for specifying entity data of an item group other than the storage target item of the first device among the entity data of the metadata stored in a low-level device relative to the first device in the hierarchical structure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates plural candidates having different relationships of allocation to plural groups in a case where a relationship in which all prospective participants are allocated to the plural groups is set as a single candidate, a calculation unit that calculates the extent of being similar to plural groups used in each execution of the past group activity for each execution of group activity with respect to each of the plural generated candidates, and a determination unit that determines a candidate used in the present group activity from among the plural generated candidates except a candidate having the highest extent of being similar to each execution of group activity.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet load tray on which a sheet is loaded, a detector that detects whether or not the sheet exists on the sheet load tray, a feeder that feeds the sheet one-by-one from the sheet load tray, and a sheet-load-tray ascend-descend unit that moves the sheet in a sheet loading direction to set an uppermost sheet at a sheet feed position of the feeder, and a controller. In a case where the sheet is detected by the detector, the controller causes the sheet load tray to ascend or descend before the feeder starts to feed the sheet so that ascending-descending operation for moving the sheet load tray between the sheet feed position and a descent position located below the sheet feed position is performed at least once.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including plural information processing devices each of which is accessible using first authentication information that is given to each of users, that varies among the users, and that is common to the plural information processing devices, access to a specific service from an accessed information processing device among the plural information processing devices being permitted using second authentication information that is given for the specific service to each of the users and that varies among the users. The information processing system includes a display controller and a storage controller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control such that performs control such that a second job for which no deadline is set is executed in a case where the second job is received while a first job for which a deadline is set is being executed and the deadline of the first job is not missed even in a case where the second job is executed.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a request retaining unit that retains a processing request issued from an issue source of a processing request, in which the number of the request retaining units is smaller than the number of the issue sources, and a priority is given to each of the request retaining units; a first control unit that specifies the priority of the processing request issued from each issue source, based on a rank set with respect to the issue source and the amount of a used calculation resource for a predetermined period of time for each issue source, and retains the processing request in the request retaining unit corresponding to the priority; and a second control unit that extracts the processing request from the request retaining unit in an order specified based on the priorities to cause a processing unit to execute the processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit, a first controller, an executing unit, and a second controller. The accepting unit accepts from a terminal apparatus of a first user an instruction to perform a predetermined operation on data stored in an external apparatus. In accordance with the instruction accepted by the accepting unit, the first controller performs control to retrieve the data from the external apparatus and store the data in a storage unit in the information processing apparatus. The executing unit performs the operation on the data, which is stored in the storage unit, in accordance with the instruction. The second controller performs control to store in the external apparatus the data on which the operation has been performed by the executing unit in accordance with the instruction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory in which processing instruction information including data to be processed and setting information is stored; a first executing unit that executes processing of the data to be processed on a basis of a first product and the setting information; a first measurement unit that measures a predetermined item concerning a first processing result of the first executing unit; a second executing unit that executes processing of the data to be processed on a basis of a second product and the setting information; a second measurement unit that measures the item concerning a second processing result of the second executing unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of comparison between the first processing result and the second processing result on a basis of a measurement result of the first measurement unit and a measurement result of the second measurement unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes first and second information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus includes a first display controller. The first display controller performs control to display a parent message and a child message on a first display. The child message is a message in reply to the parent message. The second information processing apparatus includes a second display controller and a receiver. The second display controller performs control to display a file attached to a parent message and a sticky note corresponding to the content of a child message on a second display such that the sticky note is superposed on the file. The receiver receives a file attached to a parent message and a child message from the first information processing apparatus. The child message is a message in reply to the parent message.

Abstract: A token management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a first user who has an access token for accessing a service providing server that provides a service, a permission condition for permitting a second user for a conditional use of an access token of the first user, the second user being differential from the first user and not having the access token; and an issuance unit that issues a conditional access token that permits the conditional use of the service within a range of the permission condition, to the second user in a case where the second user requests the conditional use of the access token of the first user, and the request for the conditional use satisfies the permission condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, includes a query unit that requests a query for a file to a device in a transmission destination or a transmission source based on a transmission or reception history of the file, in response to a restoration instruction to restore the file from a terminal device, the restoration instruction being made after a deletion instruction to delete the file is made at the terminal device; and a file restoration unit that restores the file by acquiring the file from the device storing the file in a case where the file is found to be present in the device in the transmission destination or the transmission source as a result of the query.

Abstract: A wireless LAN connection device includes a transmission unit that transmits connection information for a wireless LAN connection to a terminal in response to an information transmission request from the terminal; a connection unit that establishes the wireless LAN connection with the terminal in response to a wireless LAN connection request from the terminal using the connection information; and a change unit that changes valid connection information for which connection by the connection unit is recognized, in which the transmission unit transmits, to the terminal, the connection information that is currently valid connection information changed by the change unit and that is different from connection information that is valid in a previous wireless LAN connection.

Abstract: A data management system includes a process reception processing unit that receives input of data in each of processes in plural stages of an item, a compression processing unit that compresses the received data in a case where the process reception processing unit receives the data, and stores the compressed data into a compressed data database, and a decompression processing unit that decompresses the compressed data stored in the compressed database at the predefined date and time before an acquisition process of acquiring data in another process, stored in the compressed database is started, and stores the decompressed data into a decompressed database, the acquisition process being included in the processes in the plural stages.