Patent ID: 9262100
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a data conversion program configured to convert pre-conversion type-format data for a first model of image forming apparatus into post-conversion type-format data for a second model of image forming apparatus, the data conversion program causing a computer to function as: a common-format conversion unit configured to convert the pre-conversion type-format data into, as an extensible markup language (XML) definition file, common-format data of format independent of image-forming-apparatus model, based on pre-conversion-data conversion rule information indicating rules for converting between the pre-conversion type-format data and the common-format data, the pre-conversion-data conversion rule information being an XML file, and the common-format data including common-format values expressed as content sandwiched between start tags and end tags, the common-format values belonging to common-format items expressed as elements in tags; and a type-format conversion unit configured to convert the common-format data generated by the common-format conversion unit into the post-conversion type-format data, based on post-conversion-data conversion rule information indicating rules for converting between the post-conversion type-format data and the common format data, the post-conversion-data conversion rule information being an XML definition file; wherein the pre-conversion type-format data and the post-conversion type-format data are data in which type-format items are expressed according to a serial ordering of type-format values belonging to the type-format items, and are binary data uniquely processed by compressing comma-separated values (CSV) format data and adding to the compressed CSV format data information including model information, apparatus setting information, and, as data type information, at least one of an address book, a user list, and a department list; the pre-conversion-data conversion rule information and the post-conversion-data conversion rule information include rules for correlating the type-format items with the common-format items, and rules for correlating the type-format values with the common-format values; the post-conversion-data conversion rule information further includes rules for correlating the type-format items with order in the series of type-format values, and rules for correlating the common-format items with null-value type-format values that are set as the type-format value in cases where the common-format value in the common-format data is a null value when the common-format data is converted into the post-conversion type-format data; and the common-format conversion unit is further configured to