Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Sambe

Hirofumi Sambe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120075665
    Abstract: A print server acquires print information and selects candidate printers to perform print processing based on the print information among a plurality of printers. The print server transmits list information indicating a list of the selected candidate printers and transmits the print information to one of the selected candidate printers. The plurality of printers acquires the list information transmitted from the print server, and transmits the print information to at least another printer selected from the printers indicated in the list information when the print information transmitted from the print server is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi SAMBE
  • Document processing and managing system, document processing-managing apparatus, document processing apparatus, document processing-managing method, document processing method and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 7949939
    Abstract: A document processing and managing system is provided and includes a document processing apparatus and a document management apparatus including: an acquisition history holding unit that holds an acquisition history, the acquisition history including information for identifying a first user and information for identifying the electronic document; an information holding unit that holds utilization permission information to determine document processing allowed for the first user and for a second user; and an information providing unit that receives from the document processing apparatus the information for identifying the user and the information for the identifying the electronic document, refers to the acquisition history to decide whether the user is the first user of the electronic document, and transmits the utilization permission information to the document processing apparatus, so as to control the instructed document processing in accordance with a result of the decision and the utilization permission
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sambe, Dainichiro Kakei
  • Document processing and managing system, document processing-managing apparatus, document processing apparatus, document processing-managing method, document processing method and computer readable medium
    Publication number: 20080112006
    Abstract: A document processing and managing system is provided and includes a document processing apparatus and a document management apparatus including: an acquisition history holding unit that holds an acquisition history, the acquisition history including information for identifying a first user and information for identifying the electronic document; an information holding unit that holds utilization permission information to determine document processing allowed for the first user and for a second user; and an information providing unit that receives from the document processing apparatus the information for identifying the user and the information for the identifying the electronic document, refers to the acquisition history to decide whether the user is the first user of the electronic document, and transmits the utilization permission information to the document processing apparatus, so as to control the instructed document processing in accordance with a result of the decision and the utilization permission
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sambe, Dainichiro Kakei