Patent ID: 8098392
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a management program that makes a network system, in which plural image forming apparatuses are coupled to each other through a network, implement a predetermined operations, wherein each of said plural image forming apparatuses comprises: a communication section to transmit or receive information; an authenticating section to authenticate whether or not a predetermined user resides in a peripheral area of an image forming apparatus; and a voice outputting section to output guidance for a user by generating audible voice, said management program making said network system implement: a request information transmitting process, when there has occurred such a state that a first image forming apparatus, implementing a print job, should conduct the guidance to an instruction user who has instructed the first image forming apparatus to implement the print job concerned and who currently resides out of such a range that the first image forming apparatus can authenticate a location of the user by itself, for transmitting request information to a second image forming apparatus, being coupled to the first image forming apparatus on the network, so as to request for authenticating whether or not the instruction user resides in a peripheral area of the second image forming apparatus; an authentication process for authenticating whether or not the instruction user resides in the peripheral area of the second image forming apparatus that has received the request information; and an output process for making the voice outputting section of the second image forming apparatus that has recognized the instruction user residing within the peripheral area of the second image forming apparatus, output the guidance for the instruction user by generating audible voice.