Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a priority setting unit configured to set the lowest failure recovery priority for devices belonging to a first group for which it is not possible to determine how to recover from failures, among devices in which the failures have occurred, and set a failure recovery priority higher than the lowest failure recovery priority, for devices belonging to a second group for which it is possible to determine how to recover from the failures, among the devices in which the failures have occurred.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a transport unit, a load section, and a sheet accommodation section. The transport unit has a transport path along which a sheet read at a read position is transported to an output unit. The sheet output by the output unit is loaded onto the load section. The sheet accommodation section is disposed downstream in an output direction of the sheet from an inner wall surface extending upward adjacent to the load section and has a recess capable of accommodating a sheet of a predetermined minimum size. A retrieval space through which the sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodation section is retrievable is provided by exposing the transport path in a direction opposite to a loading direction of the sheet.

Abstract: A transfer device includes a transfer unit and an adjustment unit The transfer unit includes a transfer belt and a transfer roller. The transfer belt is wound around a rotating winding roller to circulate. An image is to be formed on the transfer belt. The transfer roller is disposed on an opposite side of the winding roller across the transfer belt. The transfer roller is configured to transfer the image on the transfer belt to a recording medium. The adjustment unit is configured to change an axial direction of the transfer roller to adjust parallelism between an axis of the transfer roller and an axis of the winding roller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a text being input, and an output unit that, when search information for searching for target information is created or updated, from suggestion information created or updated by being extracted from the target information or the search information, extracts the suggestion information corresponding to the text acquired by the acquisition unit, and outputs display information for displaying the extracted suggestion information with a suggestion content predetermined for each operation authority of a user.

Abstract: A message communication apparatus includes an operating unit that activates a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange a message, the chat bot exchanging a message with a user, a registration unit that registers the chat bot for each user, and a controller that, if a single first chat bot has been activated in a single chat room through operation of the operating unit by a first user, causes the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user by using the registration unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authentication unit and an issuing unit. When authentication is successfully performed by using first authentication information received by a receiving unit, the authentication unit permits access to first content. When authentication is successfully performed by using second authentication information which is received by the receiving unit and which is different from the first authentication information, the authentication unit permits access to second content having a confidentiality level higher than a confidentiality level of the first content. The issuing unit issues third authentication information to a user in a period in which authentication using the second authentication information is valid. The third authentication information is different from the first authentication information and the second authentication information. The user is authenticated by using the second authentication information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first display control section that performs control so as to display a display area that includes data to be edited; a detection section that detects a position designated by a user in the display area; a second display control section that performs control so as to display a tool box, in which plural tools are registered, through an identical operation; and a third display control section that performs control, in a case where the tool box is to be displayed, so as to display the tool box with a different content in accordance with the position detected by the detection section.

Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an image holding member according to a contact charging method, and includes a conductive substrate and a surface layer provided on the conductive substrate; and a clean member that cleans the charging member while contacting the charging member, and includes a shaft and a foamed elastic layer provided on the shaft, wherein a ratio of a distance between irregularities in an axial direction of the surface layer in the charging member (Sm) to a width of a nodal section of a foam cell wall surface protruding from a surface of the foamed elastic layer in the clean member (W) satisfies 2.4?Sm/W?5.9.

Abstract: An information processing system includes information and image processing apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a print setting, a print job transmitting unit transmitting to the image processing apparatus a print job reflecting the setting, a prohibition determination job transmitting unit transmitting to the image processing apparatus a prohibition determination job reflecting the setting, and a controller performing control such that the print job reflecting the setting is not transmitted if the setting reflected in the prohibition determination job transmitted by the prohibition determination job transmitting unit is determined to be in a non-printable status.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information about a position of a second user, and a reporting unit that, in a case of a first user making contact with the second user, when reporting contact information that is information uniquely specifying the second user, alters the contact information according to the position information and reports the altered contact information to the first user.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a user information management section that manages user information for use when plural servers provide services on a network; and a control section that, when receiving a request to change the user information, performs control to change a method of notifying change of the user information, including at least a notification destination and a notification time specified for each service, based on a type of a service using the user information related to the change request and contents of the change of the user information according to the change request.

Abstract: A multiprocessor system including at least a first processor and a second processor, includes a storage unit that stores a first program executed by the first processor and a second program executed by the second processor, a memory unit that has a memory region used by the second processor, and a monitoring unit that is connected to the storage unit and the memory unit via a communication line, and, in a case where a program read from the storage unit is the second program, stores the read second program into the memory unit.

Abstract: A connection management apparatus includes an accepting section, a transmitting section, a connecting section, and a control section. The accepting section accepts an information transmission request from a requesting terminal that is a terminal requesting a wireless LAN connection. The transmitting section transmits, to the requesting terminal, connection information for establishing a wireless LAN connection in response to the information transmission request. The connecting section has a capability of establishing a wireless LAN connection with a predetermined upper limit number of terminals.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an attribute giving unit that specifies a second date, which is a date after a first date corresponding to a date, on which processing is performed with respect to a document, or a date written in the document, based on information written in the document, and that gives the second date as attribute information of the document.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a specifying unit, an acquiring unit, and a display. The image forming apparatus includes one or more mounted portions to which containers filled with different types of color materials are mountable. The specifying unit is configured to specify color material information indicating a color material filled in a container actually mounted to the one or more mounted portions in the image forming apparatus. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire first image data indicating a first image. The display is configured to display a second image using the color material information and the first image data.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a division unit and a determination unit. The division unit is configured to divide a document into plural partial structures. The determination unit is configured to determine, for each partial structure, whether content of the partial structure includes an element corresponding to a predetermined concealment type, determine that a partial structure which does not include an element corresponding to the concealment type is releasable, and determine that a partial structures which includes an element corresponding to the concealment type is unreleasable.

Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image while moving in a sub-scanning direction, a casing that houses the image reading unit, a supporting member attached to a lower surface of the casing and having a pair of inclined surfaces that are inclined bilaterally symmetrically outward in a direction intersecting the sub-scanning direction while extending downward, and a guiding member provided in contact with the supporting member and extending in the sub-scanning direction, the guiding member guiding the supporting member movably relative to the guiding member.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an external apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The external apparatus includes a storage configured to store model information indicating a model of an image processing apparatus and function information regarding a function of the image processing apparatus, and a print setting screen generator configured to generate a print setting screen in which a setting value transmitted from the information processing apparatus is reflected, by using the storage. The information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a setting value of a function from the image processing apparatus, and a transmitter configured to transmit the setting value acquired by the acquiring unit to the external apparatus.

Abstract: A data collecting system includes a central server and at least one edge server capable of bi-directionally communicating with the central server. The edge server includes a collecting unit that collects data generated by a group of devices, and an output processing unit that encrypts the collected data and transmits the encrypted data to the central server. The encryption of the collected data is performed in accordance with an encryption policy that defines encryption schemes for different combinations of a device type and a data type.

Abstract: A group activity support apparatus includes a setting section that acquires an attribute of each member in each group and sets characteristics of the group, and a presenting section that, in a case where an aim is assigned to plural groups, presents one or more discussion topics for each group based on the aim and the characteristics of the group.