Abstract: A business matching support device includes: a hardware processor that: acquires company information of a company searching for a matching candidate destination; extracts a phrase relating to the company from the company information; creates a search keyword group by excluding a phrase included in information on a competitor of the company from a plurality of the extracted phrases; and searches a predetermined database using the search keyword group to extract the matching candidate destination.

Abstract: A communication control device that controls a plurality of communication devices in a network system includes: a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request pertaining to use of data generated by the data generation device from a user device. The processor determines a route between the data generation device and the user device, specifies first and second communication devices that are implemented at both ends of an overlapped route between a first route corresponding to a first request and a second route corresponding to a second request, and determines, based on the first request and the second request, a function to be executed by at least one of the first and second communication devices. The transmitter transmits an instruction including information for identifying the function determined by the processor to at least one of the first and second communication devices.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reception part that receives specification of a print mode and specification of a sheet type to be used for printing; a sheet supply part that sends a sheet to a sheet conveyance path; a detection part that detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path; and a hardware processor that controls a printing operation, wherein when a sheet type received by the reception part is a type for which printing in the print mode received by the reception part is allowed, the sheet supply part sends a sheet to the sheet conveyance path, the hardware processor determines whether or not the print mode received by the reception part is a prohibition mode, when it is determined that the print mode is the prohibition mode, the detection part detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path.

Abstract: A composite device includes: a first device that is connected to a network; and a second device that is connected to the network, wherein the first device includes a hardware processor that: acquires device information from a linking candidate device connected to the network; determines whether the linking candidate device from which the device information is acquired is the second device included in the composite device based on the acquired device information; and in a case where the linking candidate device is determined to be the second device, sets to link with the linking candidate device which is determined as the second device.

Abstract: A relay device includes, a storage configured to receive distributed video data, and store the received video data, a predictor configured to predict a communication disabled period in which the terminal device is disabled to perform communication, and a transmission controller configured to start transmission of the stored video data to the terminal device after a start delay period elapses from the start of the storing, wherein the transmission controller transmits the video data, which is to be played by the terminal device in a communication enabled period in which the terminal device is predicted to be enabled to perform communication and in the communication disabled period following the communication enabled period, to the terminal device in the communication enabled period.

Abstract: A communication control device that controls a plurality of communication devices in a network system includes: a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request pertaining to use of data generated by the data generation device from a user device. The processor determines a route between the data generation device and the user device, specifies first and second communication devices that are implemented at both ends of an overlapped route between a first route corresponding to a first request and a second route corresponding to a second request, and determines, based on the first request and the second request, a function to be executed by at least one of the first and second communication devices. The transmitter transmits an instruction including information for identifying the function determined by the processor to at least one of the first and second communication devices.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reception part that receives specification of a print mode and specification of a sheet type to be used for printing; a sheet supply part that sends a sheet to a sheet conveyance path; a detection part that detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path; and a hardware processor that controls a printing operation, wherein when a sheet type received by the reception part is a type for which printing in the print mode received by the reception part is allowed, the sheet supply part sends a sheet to the sheet conveyance path, the hardware processor determines whether or not the print mode received by the reception part is a prohibition mode, when it is determined that the print mode is the prohibition mode, the detection part detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a two-part urethane-based adhesive composition that exhibits excellent adhesion to a base material without using a primer. A two-part urethane-based adhesive composition according to the present invention contains: a main agent that contains a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group; and a curing agent that contains a compound having two or more active hydrogen-containing groups in each molecule. One or both of the main agent and the curing agent contain a (meth)acrylamide compound.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of being remotely operated by a remote operation device includes an operation acceptor, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor executes a process corresponding to the operation accepted by the operation acceptor, in the case where a cooperation mode is set, executes a process in accordance with a command received from the remote operation device, acquires a type of a first medium used by the remote operation device, in the case where the cooperation mode is not set, notifies the user by using a second medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor, and in the case where the cooperation mode is set, if the second medium is different from the first medium, notifies the user by using the first medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor.

Abstract: A contract assignment switching apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to send a notification to switch an assignment of identification information corresponding to one contract for communication through a telephone network, at a switching time of the assignment of the identification information, to a first terminal device to which the identification information is assigned before the switching time and a second terminal device to which the identification information is assigned after the switching time, and request the first terminal device and the second terminal device to rewrite information with respect to the contract stored in the first terminal device and the second terminal device respectively so as to switch the assignment of the identification information from the first terminal device to the second terminal device in accordance with a response to the notification from each of the first terminal device and the second terminal device.

Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.

Abstract: An image processing device that provides an operation terminal device with an operation screen and receives input information from the operation terminal device, comprising a hardware processor that: communicates with the operation terminal device in either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, which is different from the first communication mode; determines whether the communication with the operation terminal device is in the first communication mode or the second communication mode; and creates a first screen, which is the operation screen imposed with no limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created first screen when the communication is determined to be made in the first communication mode, and creates a second screen, which is the operation screen imposed with a limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created second screen when the communication is determined to be made in the second communication mode.

Abstract: When an image forming apparatus such as an MFP runs out of supplies, such as paper or toner, the user will need to load paper in the paper tray or replace the toner cartridge. However, the user occasionally has difficulty in opening the paper tray or the front cover because his/her hands are carrying the additional supplies. For example, the user may have to put the belonging down to open up the paper tray or the front cover. The image forming apparatus reacts to the user's desire in a mechanical manner by opening the paper tray or the front cover.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of trays in which sheets are set; a printer; and a hardware processor that determines a first tray, which is one tray of the plurality of trays, in preference to a second tray, which is another tray of the plurality of trays, among the plurality of trays as a feed source tray feeding the sheets to the printer in a state where first sheets of which types are determined are set in the first tray as the sheets, second sheets of which types are not determined are set in the second tray as the sheets, and both the first and second sheets are capable of satisfying a condition allowing an image to be printed.

Abstract: A web system includes a web client having a web browser, and a web server for providing the web client with a computer program to be executed on the web browser. The web server includes a delivery portion configured to deliver, as the computer program, a predetermined processing program to the web client, the predetermined processing program causing the web client, when the web client starts receiving specific data from the web server, to execute inquiry processing of inquiring of the web server as to a state of transmission of the specific data in the web server, and the predetermined processing program causing the web client to execute predetermined processing after a reply that the transmission is completed is received as the state, and a reply portion configured to, when an inquiry as to the state is sent from the web client, inform the web client of the state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a previously provided application, includes a displayer that causes a display to display a web page corresponding to a screen design of the application.

Abstract: A relay device includes, a storage configured to receive distributed video data, and store the received video data, a predictor configured to predict a communication disabled period in which the terminal device is disabled to perform communication, and a transmission controller configured to start transmission of the stored video data to the terminal device after a start delay period elapses from the start of the storing, wherein the transmission controller transmits the video data, which is to be played by the terminal device in a communication enabled period in which the terminal device is predicted to be enabled to perform communication and in the communication disabled period following the communication enabled period, to the terminal device in the communication enabled period.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus transmits a plurality of second packets obtained from a plurality of first packets, wherein each of the plurality of first packets includes a header including a first field, and a payload, and includes first information stored in the first field, and wherein each of the plurality of second packets includes second information in the first field instead of the first information, and includes the first information inserted in the payload. A reception apparatus receives the plurality of second packets, deletes the first information from the payload of the received second packet and obtains data included in the payload of the received packet when third information stored in a memory is stored in the second field of a packet received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a display which allows users to connect a first icon to a second icon on a first screen and is capable of displaying the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion and a second screen matching an event; a completion detector which detects completion of the connecting operation; a processor which performs an operation predetermined for the first and second icon when the connecting operation is completed; an event detector which detects occurrence of an event during the connecting operation; and a controller which performs, if an event occurs before completion of the connecting operation, a control operation consisting of: storing composition information of the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion; interrupting the first screen; and reproducing the first screen after disappearance of the second screen on the basis of the composition information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display; a first processing unit; and a second processing unit, wherein the first processing unit includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first screen relating to first processing performed by the first processing unit to the second processing unit, the second processing unit includes a mounting section in which a peripheral device is mounted and a hardware processor, the hardware processor configured to: cause the display to selectively display either one of the first screen and a second screen relating to second processing performed by the second processing unit, and when the display displays the first screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the first processing and, when the display displays the second screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the second processing.