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(12) Umted States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,171,526 B2
Takeuchi et al. (45) Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
(54) SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, ?éltfuda
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS’ 2004/ 0080771 A1 4/2004 Mihira et al.
SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER AND 2004/0187061 A1 9/2004 Matsuda
SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD 2004/0199538 A1 10/2004 Matsuda etal.
2004/0227968 A1 11/2004 Nakamura et al.
(75) Inventors: Sachiko Takeuchi, Tokyo (JP); Toru (Continued)
Matsuda, KanagaWa (JP)
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
(73) Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP) Ep 1 507 381 A2 2/2005
( * ) Not1.c e: Subj.e ct to any di. sclai. mer, the term of th1. s ( C ont 'l nue d )
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS
U.S.C. 154(b) by 1079 days.
Bai Li et al “Fuzzy classi?cation by a CMAC netWork”.Dept. of
(21) App1_ NO; 11/240,511 Comput, Nottingham Trent Univ., UK; Proceedings. Ninth IEEE
International Conference on Tools with Arti?cial Intelligence (Cat.
(22) Filed; Oct 3, 2005 No. 97CB36147) p. Nos. 392-5 Publisher: IEEE, Publication Date:
1997.*
(65) Pr1or Publlcatlon Data (Continued)
US 2006/0075474 A1 Apr. 6, 2006
Primary Examiner * Taghi Arani
(30) Foreign Application Priority Data Assistant Examiner i Jason Lee
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Oblon, Spivak,
OCT. 5, 2004 (JP) ............................... .. 2004-292813 Mcclenanda Maier & Neustadt, LL'P~
Sep. 28, 2005 (JP) ............................... .. 2005-282063
(51) Int Cl (57) ABSTRACT
Got-5F '7/04 (200601) A service providing system is disclosed. The service provid
(52) U 5 Cl 726/3_ 726/4 726/5 726/10 726/27 ing system includes an information processing apparatus and
' ' 713/1’58_ 713’/169_ 7’13/173_’713/201’ a service providing server, each having an authentication
(58) F, M f Cl t, s’ h ’ 7’26/3 12 mechanism, that are connected via a network, Wherein the
le 0 217525165; 1211276221 168 156’ information processing apparatus and the service providing
’ ’ 515/158 173’ 201’_ 71 ’1/138’ server provides a service in response to a request by an
S 1. t. ?l f 1 t ’ ilh. t’ authenticated user. The information processing apparatus
ee app lea Ion e or Comp 6 e Seam 15 Dry’ includes: an information obtaining part for obtaining authen
. tication information for erformin authentication in the ser
(56) References Clted vi. ce prov1. d1. ng server whepr ei. n the agu thent1. cat1. on 1. nformat1. on
Us PATENT DOCUMENTS is associated With a user authenticated in the information
6 938 171 B1 * 8/2005 Isomichi et al 726/12 processing apparatus; and a process request part for sending a
200 1/b006358 Al * 4/2001 Isomichi et a1‘ """"""" "713001 process request including the authentication information to
2002/0168962 A1 * 11/2002 Kurakake etal. .... .. 455/411 the Service Providing Server
2003/0135734 A1* 7/2003 Fagan et al. ................. .. 713/169
2003/0218771 A1 11/2003 Mihira 8 Claims, 29 Drawing Sheets
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2005/0134902 A1 6/2005 Mihiraetal. W0 WO0155819 A1 * 8/2001
2006/0021004 A1* 1/2006 Moran et a1. .................... .. 726/2
2006/0059564 A1* 3/2006 Tan et al. 726/27 OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2007/0044146 A1* 2/2007 Murase et a1. ................ .. 726/10
Of?ce Action issued Jun. 28, 2011, in Japanese Patent Application
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS NO‘ 2005_282063‘
JP 9-34822 2/1997 ' '
JP 2002-84383 3/2002 * clted by examlner
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