Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, when a user posts information on a social networking service (SNS) that is related to a request for use of an apparatus, grant the user an authority to use the apparatus, the SNS being a service in which participants exchange information, the user being a participant of the SNS, the apparatus being a participant of the SNS and having a trust relationship with another participant who has a trust relationship with the user, trust relationships being relationships in which information is exchanged on the SNS only between limited participants.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a user terminal that includes a terminal-side processor and an image forming apparatus that includes an apparatus-side processor. In response to receiving an instruction to transmit a print request to the image forming apparatus from a user, the terminal-side processor is configured to hold the print request instead of transmitting the print request to the image forming apparatus and is configured to transmit user information indicating the user to the image forming apparatus. The apparatus-side processor is configured to transmit a transmission-request signal to the user terminal in response to detecting, on a basis of the user information, that the user comes near the image forming apparatus. The terminal-side processor is configured to transmit the print request held by the terminal-side processor to the image forming apparatus in response to receiving the transmission-request signal.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to delete a preregistered user, a storage unit that stores related information that relates to a process that the user executes on the information processing device itself, and a deletion unit that deletes the related information stored in the storage unit corresponding to a user targeted for deletion received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a user terminal that includes a terminal-side processor and an image forming apparatus that includes an apparatus-side processor. In response to receiving an instruction to transmit a print request to the image forming apparatus from a user, the terminal-side processor is configured to hold the print request instead of transmitting the print request to the image forming apparatus and is configured to transmit user information indicating the user to the image forming apparatus. The apparatus-side processor is configured to transmit a transmission-request signal to the user terminal in response to detecting, on a basis of the user information, that the user comes near the image forming apparatus. The terminal-side processor is configured to transmit the print request held by the terminal-side processor to the image forming apparatus in response to receiving the transmission-request signal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, when a user posts information on a social networking service (SNS) that is related to a request for use of an apparatus, grant the user an authority to use the apparatus, the SNS being a service in which participants exchange information, the user being a participant of the SNS, the apparatus being a participant of the SNS and having a trust relationship with another participant who has a trust relationship with the user, trust relationships being relationships in which information is exchanged on the SNS only between limited participants.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to delete a preregistered user, a storage unit that stores related information that relates to a process that the user executes on the information processing device itself, and a deletion unit that deletes the related information stored in the storage unit corresponding to a user targeted for deletion received by the reception unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus. A storage unit stores a second table tabulating a usage amount when a user uses an apparatus for each identifier for tabulation separately from a first table in which user information is registered for each identifier for authentication of the user. A reception unit receives a user identifier. A registration unit registers the user identifier in the second table as an identifier for tabulation, when the received user identifier establishes an authentication by a verification in the identifier for authentication registered in the first table, and is not registered in the second table.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus. A storage unit stores a second table tabulating a usage amount when a user uses an apparatus for each identifier for tabulation separately from a first table in which user information is registered for each identifier for authentication of the user. A reception unit receives a user identifier. A registration unit registers the user identifier in the second table as an identifier for tabulation, when the received user identifier establishes an authentication by a verification in the identifier for authentication registered in the first table, and is not registered in the second table.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of the image forming apparatus in a printing service system from the image forming apparatus by a short-range communication; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printing service system, a setting request which contains the identification information of the image forming apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit and identification information of a user in the printing service system and which is a request for making a setting for permitting the user to use the image forming apparatus; and the image forming apparatus includes a holding unit that holds the identification information of the image forming apparatus in the printing service system in such a form that the identification information can be acquired by the acquiring unit of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and a notifying unit. The acquiring unit acquires print data from an external apparatus via a network. The print data is generated by the external apparatus from document data received from a client apparatus. The determining unit determines whether or not the acquired print data is a dummy job or an actual job. The notifying unit notifies failure information when print data of the actual job is not acquired within a period after print data which is determined to be the dummy job is acquired. The failure information indicates a failure occurring in the process in which the external apparatus receives the document data from the client apparatus, or in the process in which the print data is generated from the document data in the external apparatus. The period satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of the image forming apparatus in a printing service system from the image forming apparatus by a short-range communication; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printing service system, a setting request which contains the identification information of the image forming apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit and identification information of a user in the printing service system and which is a request for making a setting for permitting the user to use the image forming apparatus; and the image forming apparatus includes a holding unit that holds the identification information of the image forming apparatus in the printing service system in such a form that the identification information can be acquired by the acquiring unit of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A server device includes a first accepting unit, a converting unit, a notifying unit, and a providing unit. The first accepting unit accepts a specification from a specifying device that specifies first content. In a case where a data format of the first content indicated by the specification is not a certain data format in which data is capable of being output by an output device, the converting unit converts the data format of the first content to the certain data format, thereby generating second content having the certain data format, and stores the second content. The notifying unit notifies the specifying device of a storage site of the second content. In a case where the output device requests to get content from the storage site of the second content by using information acquired from the specifying device, the providing unit provides the second content to the output device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and a notifying unit. The acquiring unit acquires print data from an external apparatus via a network. The print data is generated by the external apparatus from document data received from a client apparatus. The determining unit determines whether or not the acquired print data is a dummy job or an actual job. The notifying unit notifies failure information when print data of the actual job is not acquired within a period after print data which is determined to be the dummy job is acquired. The failure information indicates a failure occurring in the process in which the external apparatus receives the document data from the client apparatus, or in the process in which the print data is generated from the document data in the external apparatus. The period satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.

Abstract: A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication.