An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive, as an utterance, an instruction for executing a service, detect a physical operation for executing the service on a device, and cause the device where the operation is detected closest to a time of receiving the instruction to execute the received service.

An operation mode control system includes an obtainment processing portion and a shift processing portion. The obtainment processing portion obtains sound volume data indicating a sound volume level of ambient sound around an image forming apparatus that is operating in a first mode in which all or a part of functions relating to image formation is restricted. The shift processing portion shifts, when a count of a number of times it is determined during a preset specific time period that the sound volume level is a first reference level or more, is a preset specific count or more, the image forming apparatus into a second mode in which it is possible for image formation to begin.

A reference device includes an operation section, a function collecting section, a function selection screen generating section, and a remote connection section. The function collecting section receives a function list from another device connected to a network. The function selection screen generating section generates a function selection screen including a function of the reference device and a function present only in the other device by comparing the function list received from the other device to a function list of the reference device and displays the function selection screen on the operation section. When the function present only in the other device is selected in the function selection screen, the remote connection section remotely connects the other device in which the selected function is present to the operation section of the reference device.

A server apparatus is configured to receive, from the one client apparatus, a user identifier and a client identifier, determine whether or not the one client apparatus is a high-probability client apparatus, if it is determined that the one client apparatus is not the high-probability client apparatus, determine a high-probability function, determine whether or not differential operation information is present, the differential operation information being information indicating an operation different from an operation to be input in an operation device of the high-probability client apparatus when the high-probability client apparatus executes the high-probability function, out of an operation to be input in an operation device of the one client apparatus when the one client apparatus executes the high-probability function, and if it is determined that the differential operation information is present, send the differential operation information to the one client apparatus.

Provided an information processing apparatus including a first display unit that displays a first menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a first function of an information processing apparatus, on a display unit, a second display unit that displays a second menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a second function for using the information processing apparatus for a specific use, on the display unit, and a control unit that controls which of the first menu screen and the second menu screen is preferentially displayed.

This image processing apparatus accepts a request to execute predetermined image processing, acquires an image processing name indicating a name of the predetermined image processing from the accepted request, selects a plugin application corresponding to the acquired image processing name from one or more installed plugin applications, and instructs the selected plugin application to perform the predetermined image processing.

A present image forming apparatus includes a first control unit that controls a native program, a second control unit that controls an extension application different from the native program, a first memory area in which an operation screen of the native program controlled by the first control unit is rendered, and a second memory area in which an operation screen of the extension application controlled by the second control unit is rendered. At least a part of the operation screen of the native program is output to a display when an event related to outputting of the operation screen of the native program has occurred while the display is displaying a screen rendered in the first memory area.

An information processing system for providing a service via a service providing server residing on a first network, the service being requested by an information processing apparatus residing on a second network different from the first network based on application information, the information processing system including: first circuitry to obtain state information indicating a state of the service providing server; and second circuitry to transmit the state information of the service providing server to the information processing apparatus in response to reception of a service request to the service providing server from the information processing apparatus, to cause the information processing apparatus to perform a notification operation according to the state information that is received.

A job processing apparatus that is capable of positively stopping a transmission job desired by a user. A transmission job is input according to a user's operation. Uncompleted transmission jobs out of input transmission jobs are managed by a job management table. A first stop instruction for stopping a transmission job is received according to a user's operation. In a case where the first stop instruction is received during display of a configuration screen for making settings of a transmission job, a transmission job input last out of the transmission jobs managed by the job management table is searched for, and the searched-for transmission job is stopped.

This image processing apparatus accepts a request to execute predetermined image processing, acquires an image processing name indicating a name of the predetermined image processing from the accepted request, selects a plugin application corresponding to the acquired image processing name from one or more installed plugin applications, and instructs the selected plugin application to perform the predetermined image processing.