A voice information processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: receives a user question; acquires answer information responsive to the received question; acquires state information on a user state; and selects an output mode of the answer information from among a plurality of output modes, based on the answer information and the state information, the plurality of output modes including a voice output mode; and an output device that outputs the answer information in the selected output mode.

A management apparatus receives a data set from a target device that is one of a plurality of devices, the data set including a data type, a data body, and identification information of the target device; each time the data set is received, calculates scheduled transmission time for the target device based on reception time of the data set and on the identification information and the data type; estimates a load of the management apparatus at the scheduled transmission time based on the scheduled transmission time and on next transmission time of the data set for the plurality of devices other than the target device; and in a case where the load is higher than a particular level, transmit, to the target device, corrected transmission time as next transmission time for the target device, the corrected transmission time being obtained by adding a correction value to the scheduled transmission time.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer unit that includes a driving member related to the supply of the developer, a storage unit that stores correction information regarding the correction of a supplied amount of the developer and a remaining amount of the developer, and a control unit. The control unit acquires driving information regarding the driving of the driving member. The control unit acquires the correction information in accordance with the remaining amount of the developer and estimates the remaining amount of developer based on the driving information and the correction information when the remaining amount of the developer stored in the storage unit satisfies a predetermined condition regarding the remaining amount, and estimates the remaining amount of the developer based on the driving information when the remaining amount of the developer stored in the storage unit does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

A system and method for a device reporting optimization includes a processor and associated memory and a network interface for data communication with a multifunction peripheral. Reporting schedule data is sent from the memory the multifunction peripheral via the network interface. The processor receives a plurality of service file sets from the multifunction peripheral via the network interface in accordance with the scheduled reporting. The processor determines a timing of receipt of each of the service file sets relative to timing specified the reporting schedule data and generates updated reporting schedule data in accordance with a determined timing. The processor then sends the updated reporting schedule data to the multifunction peripheral via the network interface.

A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.

An electronic device includes a memory, a mode configuration management portion, a panel portion, and a memory management portion. The mode configuration management portion configures a plurality of allocation modes for allocating a plurality of areas to the memory. The panel portion displays a mode selection screen for selecting one of the allocation modes. The memory management portion allocates the plurality of areas to the memory based on the selected one of the allocation modes. The mode configuration management portion manages a plurality of recommended modes. The memory management portion sets sizes of an input portion and an output portion of the respective areas according to the recommended mode selected by the mode configuration management portion.

In a case of a first function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from a user of a multifunction peripheral (10), the user is set as an execution user. In a case of a second function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from an application, a user instructed by the application is set as an execution user. Further, in a case where an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the first function and an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the second function are identical, use history information of the execution user is managed as use history information of a single user. This makes it possible to appropriately manage use history information of a cooperative processing.

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.

An image forming apparatus includes: a printer that prints a plurality of images in a state where the plurality of images are divided in a plurality of lanes on a continuous sheet, the plurality of lanes respectively corresponding to the plurality of images; an inspector that reads each of the plurality of images printed on the continuous sheet and conducts an inspection; and a hardware processor that controls the printer to reprint an image that has been detected to be abnormal on the continuous sheet on which the image that has been detected to be abnormal has been printed, in a case where any of the plurality of images has been detected to be abnormal in the inspection conducted by the inspector.

An information processing system includes a manager, a memory, plural processors, a processing request storage, a processing result storage, and an output unit that are constructed in a distributed manner. The manager manages a workflow defined by combining one or more units of processing with each other in a certain manner, and generates a job to execute the workflow. In the memory, the manager stores a status of each unit of processing according to the job. The plural processors each execute a corresponding unit of processing. In the processing request storage, the manager stores a unit of processing as an execution request. In the processing result storage, the plural processors each store a processing result of a corresponding unit of processing after extracting the unit of processing from the processing request storage and executing the unit of processing. At a predetermined timing or when the information processing system is restarted after an occurrence of an error in one of the manager, the memory, and the plural processors, the output unit outputs information indicating a status of a corresponding unit of processing, based on a storage status of the processing request storage and that of the processing result storage.