Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Nakaota

Hiroyuki Nakaota 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).

  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT FUNCTION, NETWORK PRINTER WITH DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT FUNCTION, DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD OF NETWORK PRINTER
    Publication number: 20110249293
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus with a department management function connected to computers provided in plural departments, respectively, via a network. The image forming apparatus has a communication interface with external apparatuses to which addresses different from one another notified for the respective computers of the plural departments are allocated, respectively. When, from the computer of each of the departments, a print job including an address notified to the department and print data is transmitted via the network, the image forming apparatus receives this print job with the communication interface. The image forming apparatus discriminates a department that has transmitted this print job according to a correspondence relation with the addresses allocated to the communication interface, performs counting by department, and causes the printing unit to execute printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nakaota
  • Image forming apparatus with department management function, network printer with department management function, department management method of image forming apparatus and department management method of network printer
    Patent number: 7986425
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus with a department management function connected to computers provided in plural departments, respectively, via a network. The image forming apparatus has a communication interface with external apparatuses to which addresses different from one another notified for the respective computers of the plural departments are allocated, respectively. When, from the computer of each of the departments, a print job including an address notified to the department and print data is transmitted via the network, the image forming apparatus receives this print job with the communication interface. The image forming apparatus discriminates a department that has transmitted this print job according to a correspondence relation with the addresses allocated to the communication interface, performs counting by department, and causes the printing unit to execute printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nakaota
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT FUNCTION, NETWORK PRINTER WITH DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT FUNCTION, DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD OF NETWORK PRINTER
    Publication number: 20080192282
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus with a department management function connected to computers provided in plural departments, respectively, via a network. The image forming apparatus has a communication interface with external apparatuses to which addresses different from one another notified for the respective computers of the plural departments are allocated, respectively. When, from the computer of each of the departments, a print job including an address notified to the department and print data is transmitted via the network, the image forming apparatus receives this print job with the communication interface. The image forming apparatus discriminates a department that has transmitted this print job according to a correspondence relation with the addresses allocated to the communication interface, performs counting by department, and causes the printing unit to execute printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nakaota
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Patent number: 7149007
    Abstract: In the case of private scan, an entire control section saves, on a hard disk device, “setting information/data” for scan as a record, and reads, when necessary, “setting information/data” saved as a record on the hard disk device, thereby registering it as a template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nakaota
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Publication number: 20040061907
    Abstract: In the case of private scan, an entire control section saves, on a hard disk device, “setting information/data” for scan as a record, and reads, when necessary, “setting information/data” saved as a record on the hard disk device, thereby registering it as a template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nakaota