Patents by Inventor Wataru Nishi

Wataru Nishi 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 apparatus and print restrictions management system for inquiring whether changing print restrictions is authorized
    Patent number: 7715030
    Abstract: An upper limit of allowed print count is set for each user requesting print jobs, and a multi function printer includes: (i) a schedule transmission requesting section for acquiring schedule information of the user; (ii) a print count predicting section for predicting, on the basis of the acquired schedule information, allowed print count assigned to the user, and the number of printed sheets, whether changing the upper limit of the allowed print count is required; and (iii) a settings change inquiry section for inquiring a manager terminal of whether the manager terminal authorizes changing the upper limit of the allowed print count. If having obtained from the manager terminal authorization of change of the upper limit of the allowed print count, the multi function printer performs a print job within a range of a new allowed print count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Higashiura, Yusuke Nagai, Wataru Nishi
  • Printing apparatus, print restrictions management system, print control program, and storage medium storing the print control program
    Publication number: 20050275868
    Abstract: An upper limit of allowed print count is set for each user requesting print jobs, and a multi function printer includes: (i) a schedule transmission requesting section for acquiring schedule information of the user; (ii) a print count predicting section for predicting, on the basis of the acquired schedule information, allowed print count assigned to the user, and the number of printed sheets, whether changing the upper limit of the allowed print count is required; and (iii) a settings change inquiry section for inquiring a manager terminal of whether the manager terminal authorizes changing the upper limit of the allowed print count. If having obtained from the manager terminal authorization of change of the upper limit of the allowed print count, the multi function printer performs a print job within a range of a new allowed print count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Masaki Higashiura, Yusuke Nagai, Wataru Nishi