Toshiba TEC

According to one embodiment, an authentication processing system includes an authentication server and a processing device requiring an account ID for at least some uses. The device has a local storage unit storing an account ID list listing card IDs in association with authenticated account IDs. A processor of the device receives a card ID from a card reader, compares the card ID to the list, permits use of the device when the card ID matches to the list, checks with the authentication server for validation when the card ID does not match with the list, permits use of the device if the card ID is validated by the server, then adds the card ID to the local account list, and regularly requests an updated account ID list from the server to be used as the local account list.

According to an embodiment, an information processing server for an information processing system for managing automated workflows to prevent leakage of sensitive information includes a communication interface connectable to a network, a storage unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire workflow definition data that defines processes or tasks to be performed when a workflow corresponding to the workflow definition data is executed. The definition data may include an authentication information area in which user authentication information has been set, such as for the purposes of accessing a cloud-service storage account or the like. The processor generates, based on the workflow definition data, a workflow template including an authentication information area from which the user authentication information has been cleared, and then outputs the workflow template to be used by other users or the like.

According to one embodiment, a license management device and system are provided to facilitate management of a license for a printing device. The license management device includes a first communication interface, a second communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The first communication interface communicates with a management server. The second communication interface communicates with the printing device that has a specific function whose use may be license-restricted but permitted by a license issued by the management server. The memory stores a license management table that stores the license issued by the management server through the first communication interface. The processor provides the printing device with the license stored in the license management table in response to a request from the printing device through the second communication interface.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing a first built-in application to perform a first function, a second built-in application to perform a second function, and a web server application associated with the second built-in application. The apparatus further includes a processor and an operation panel to receive user selections. The processor is configured to receive instructions to execute the first built-in application and the second built-in application in conjunction with first built-in application, execute the first built-in application to perform the first function, activate the web server application associated with the second built-in application, and then, after activating the web server application, execute the second built-in application to perform the second function. (Figure 1)

An image forming device and a document management system enable a user to give an instruction to execute processing such as printing of a document are provided. An image forming device includes a display device, a communication interface, and a processor. The display device displays an image. The communication interface communicates via a network to which an external device including a management server connects. The processor causes the display device to display an image showing identification information generated, inquires about storage place information of a document linked to the identification information, from the management server, and downloads a document stored in a storage place indicated by the storage place information in response to acquiring the storage place information of the document linked to the identification information.

According to an embodiment, an output apparatus is an output apparatus as a first node in a network including the first node and a second node. The output apparatus generates a directed graph including a first vertex corresponding to a transmission source node of a packet, a second vertex corresponding to a transmission destination node that is a transmission destination of the packet of the transmission source node, and an edge having the first vertex as a tail and the second vertex as a head.

According to one embodiment, when a monitoring unit detects a cloud trigger event, a management unit of an automated workflow management system transmits, to an execution unit, a workflow corresponding to the cloud trigger event, a permission necessity setting received from an administrator and indicating whether permission is required before executing the workflow, permitter designating information received from the administrator and indicating a permitter who can grant permission, and a cloud workflow execution request indicating the workflow execution request was triggered by the cloud trigger event. The execution unit executes the workflow based on the permission necessity setting and the permitter designating information.

According to an embodiment, a wireless tag communication system includes a processing apparatus, a tag communication device, and a controller. The processing apparatus includes a conveyance device that conveys a sheet provided with a wireless tag. The tag communication device performs detection processing of the wireless tag of the sheet conveyed and writing processing of information on the wireless tag. The controller causes the tag communication device to execute the writing processing after the conveyance device has started to convey the sheet and a predetermined waiting time has elapsed.

According to an embodiment, a wireless tag communication system includes a processing apparatus, a tag communication device, and a controller. The processing apparatus includes a conveyance device that conveys a sheet provided with a wireless tag. The tag communication device performs detection processing of the wireless tag of the sheet conveyed and writing processing of information on the wireless tag. The controller causes the tag communication device to execute the writing processing after the conveyance device has started to convey the sheet and a predetermined waiting time has elapsed.

According to one embodiment, an automated file processing method includes receiving an electronic document file and a request to process the electronic document file to redact sensitive information in the electronic document file. Text recognition processing is performed on the electronic document file. A masking process is executed to visibly obscure a portion of the electronic document file corresponding to text recognized in the text recognition processing. A text concealment process is executed to delete or replace text in the visibly obscured portion of the electronic document file to prevent electronic recovery or reproduction of original text in the visibly obscured portion. Then, a processed document file is generated from the electronic document file on which the masking process and the text concealment process have been executed.