Abstract: An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data.

Abstract: An information processing system, a service providing device, and an information processing method. The information processing system receives a request for downloading a client program to a client terminal from a user operating the client terminal, determines at least one client program from one or more client programs according to the login method of the user, and control to send the determined client program to the client terminal.

Abstract: An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data.

Abstract: An information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a service providing system mutually communicating through a network, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a display process unit to cause a screen of a display device to display a process flow that defines an execution order of processes executed by the service providing system, and a setup reception unit to receive a setup, in which predetermined processes related to first and second external services are associated, and the display process unit displays the processes to be executed in the execution order, and an issue that the setup reception unit has received the predetermined processes related to the first and second external services in association with each other, the service providing system includes a process flow execution unit to execute the processes included in the process flow transmitted from the information processing apparatus in the defined execution order.

Abstract: An information processing system for providing a service via a service providing server residing on a first network, the service being requested by an information processing apparatus residing on a second network different from the first network based on application information, the information processing system including: first circuitry to obtain state information indicating a state of the service providing server; and second circuitry to transmit the state information of the service providing server to the information processing apparatus in response to reception of a service request to the service providing server from the information processing apparatus, to cause the information processing apparatus to perform a notification operation according to the state information that is received.

Abstract: An information processing system, a service providing device, and an information processing method. The information processing system receives a request for downloading a client program to a client terminal from a user operating the client terminal, determines at least one client program from one or more client programs according to the login method of the user, and control to send the determined client program to the client terminal.

Abstract: An information processing system for providing a service via a service providing server residing on a first network, the service being requested by an information processing apparatus residing on a second network different from the first network based on application information, the information processing system including: first circuitry to obtain state information indicating a state of the service providing server; and second circuitry to transmit the state information of the service providing server to the information processing apparatus in response to reception of a service request to the service providing server from the information processing apparatus, to cause the information processing apparatus to perform a notification operation according to the state information that is received.

Abstract: An information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a service providing system mutually communicating through a network, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a display process unit to cause a screen of a display device to display a process flow that defines an execution order of processes executed by the service providing system, and a setup reception unit to receive a setup, in which predetermined processes related to first and second external services are associated, and the display process unit displays the processes to be executed in the execution order, and an issue that the setup reception unit has received the predetermined processes related to the first and second external services in association with each other, the service providing system includes a process flow execution unit to execute the processes included in the process flow transmitted from the information processing apparatus in the defined execution order.

Abstract: A service providing system provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network. The service providing system is constituted by at least one information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus coupled to a second information processing apparatus via a network. The first information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire first data including second data, a process information reader to read, when the first data satisfies a predetermined condition, process information in association with the predetermined condition from a storage, a transmitter to transmit, when the process information includes predetermined process information, third data to the second information processing apparatus, and an editor to edit the second data in accordance with the process information. The second information processing apparatus includes a second acquisition unit to acquire the third data from the first information processing apparatus, and a display unit to display on a display device indication that the second data are edited when the third data are acquired.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform a process on print data or setting data of the print data by a processing method targeting print data of a specific description format; a receiving unit configured to receive print data and setting data of the print data of a description format selected by a user; a determination data obtaining unit configured to obtain determination data that indicates whether a printer driver used for inputting the received print data and the setting data is a target printer driver for the process performed by the processing unit; and a process control unit configured to determine whether to perform the process by the processing unit on the received print data or the setting data based on the obtained determination data, and control the processing by the processing unit.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform a process on print data or setting data of the print data by a processing method targeting print data of a specific description format; a receiving unit configured to receive print data and setting data of the print data of a description format selected by a user; a determination data obtaining unit configured to obtain determination data that indicates whether a printer driver used for inputting the received print data and the setting data is a target printer driver for the process performed by the processing unit; and a process control unit configured to determine whether to perform the process by the processing unit on the received print data or the setting data based on the obtained determination data, and control the processing by the processing unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus coupled to a second information processing apparatus via a network. The first information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire first data including second data, a process information reader to read, when the first data satisfies a predetermined condition, process information in association with the predetermined condition from a storage, a transmitter to transmit, when the process information includes predetermined process information, third data to the second information processing apparatus, and an editor to edit the second data in accordance with the process information. The second information processing apparatus includes a second acquisition unit to acquire the third data from the first information processing apparatus, and a display unit to display on a display device indication that the second data are edited when the third data are acquired.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including a reading apparatus which reads an electronic recording card, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the electronic recording card via the reading apparatus and obtains read information; a generating unit which generates user management information of a user who owns the electronic recording card based on the read information obtained by the reading unit; and a holding unit which holds the user management information generated by the generating unit in a predetermined storage area.

Abstract: A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information.

Abstract: An information processor is connected via a network to an output apparatus and configured to control a job outputting process of the output apparatus. The information processor includes a job identifier generation part configured to generate a job identifier for uniquely identifying a job input from a terminal apparatus connected via the network to the information processor, an information storage part configured to store information that correlates the job identifier and the input job, a job identifier transmission part configured to transmit the job identifier correlated with the input job to the terminal apparatus, and a job association part configured to associate user information for uniquely identifying an authenticated user received from the output apparatus with the input job based on a job association request including the user information and the job identifier and on the information stored in the information storage part.

Abstract: An output system includes a first system that performs authentication using user information including first authentication information and outputs from an output apparatus output data specified using the first authentication information, and a second system that provides the output data to the first system. The second system includes a storage unit that stores output data in association with pre-authentication information, a unit that provides the pre-authentication information to the first system, and a unit that provides the output data to the first system.

Abstract: A job management apparatus connected to an external storage via a network, includes a storage management unit that determines whether to store job data of a job to be executed by an electronic device in the external storage based on a predetermined transfer condition; and a job management unit that stores the job data in the external storage when the storage management unit determines to store the job data in the external storage.