Patent ID: 8339648
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus connected to a scenario storage device and an image delivery apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus being configured to read a document based on a scenario to generate image data and transmit the image data with the scenario to the image delivery apparatus, the scenario storage device being configured to store a set of the scenarios authorized for a user of the image forming apparatus, each of the scenarios including a document reading setting for reading the document to generate the image data and a delivery setting having delivery destination information for delivering the image data, the image delivery apparatus including a scenario validity evaluation unit configured to evaluate validity of the scenario transmitted from the image forming apparatus based on whether the transmitted scenario matches one of scenarios in the set of the scenarios authorized for the user stored in the scenario storage device and a delivery unit configured to deliver, if the scenario validity evaluation unit validates the transmitted scenario, the image data based on the delivery destination information of the transmitted scenario, the image forming apparatus comprising: a scenario retrieving unit configured to retrieve the set of the scenarios authorized for the user from the scenario storage device; a scenario reception unit configured to receive at least one of the scenarios selected by the user from the set of the scenarios retrieved from the scenario retrieving unit; a plural scenario selection identification unit configured to determine whether the scenario reception unit has received the plural scenarios selected by the user from the set of the scenarios retrieved from the scenario retrieving unit; a scenario destination acquisition unit configured to acquire, if the scenario reception unit has received the plural scenarios selected by the user from the set of the scenarios retrieved from the scenario retrieving unit, the delivery destination information from the plural scenarios selected by the user from the set of the scenarios retrieved from the scenario retrieving unit to create a set of the acquired delivery destination information; a duplicated scenario destination identification unit configured to determine whether duplicated delivery destination information is contained in the set of the acquired delivery destination information obtained from the plural scenarios by the scenario destination acquisition unit; a scenario processing unit configured to carry out, if the duplicated scenario destination identification unit has determined that the duplicated delivery destination information is contained in the set of the acquired delivery destination information obtained from the plural scenarios by the scenario destination acquisition unit, processing on at least one of the plural scenarios to create a new set of the plural scenarios including the at least one processed scenario such that the image data are transmitted once to a delivery destination of the duplicated delivery destination information based on the new set of the plural scenarios including the at least one processed scenario; and a scenario registration request unit configured to store the at least one processed scenario in the scenario storage device.