A method for transmitting a message between a first electronic device of a first user and a second electronic device of a second user via a timepiece includes: creating the message to be transmitted by the first electronic device; storing the created message on a remote server and/or in the first electronic device as digital message data; generating a digital graphic representation for the transmission of the message by the remote server and/or by the first electronic device; building a figurative representation pertaining to the digital graphic representation for the transmission of the message on all or a portion of the timepiece by a visual element building device controlled by the server; and transmitting the message by the second electronic device from a digital figurative representation emanating from the capture of the figurative representation included on all or a portion of the timepiece, by this second electronic device.

A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.

A system for scheduling transmission times to avoid connection timeouts includes a memory configured to store data in a buffer for upload to a storage system. The system also includes one or more computing devices configured to implement a connection manager. The connection manager is configured to establish a connection to a storage system. The connection manager is configured to iteratively repeat, until the data transfer operation is completed, begin transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system, stop transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system, where at least a portion of the data is retained in the buffer, determine a time to resume transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system to avoid a connection timeout for the connection to the storage system, and wait until the time to resume.

A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.

A printer includes a printing unit that processes the first print request accumulated in a reception buffer to print an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge tray to which a sheet on which an image is printed by the printing unit is discharged, and a controller that causes the printing unit to discharge, to the sheet discharge tray, an insertion sheet different from a sheet on which an image is printed by processing a print request before causing the printing unit to process a first print request in a case where a request source of the first print request is different from a request source of a second print request which is a print request immediately before the first print request.

A memory control method generates write control data by predetermined areas by attaching processing priority data and a transfer ID, generates read control data for respective predetermined areas by attaching processing priority data and a transfer ID, stores the write control data and the read control data in an arbitration queue, executes an arbitration that determines a priority order of processing taking the write control data and the read control data that are stored in the arbitration queue as targets, and changes the processing priority data every time a predetermined time elapses. The arbitration raises a priority order taking the write control data or the read control data that includes the processing priority data as a timeout request when the processing priority data has passed a preliminarily set threshold by the change.

A memory control method receives a read request data set including a management ID and requesting reading of data from a memory, transmits read data that is read corresponding to the read request, stores write data temporarily in a write buffer, stores the read data read from the memory temporarily in a read buffer, stores write control data and read control data in an arbitration queue, executes an arbitration that determines a priority order of processing taking the write control data and the read control data that are stored in the arbitration queue as targets, and matches an order of transmitting a plurality of pieces of read data that are read from the memory corresponding to the read control data selected based on the determined priority order and are associated with an identical management ID to an order of receiving the read request data set.

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a controller. The receiving unit receives a selection of information which is to be output. The selection is selected from multiple types of information included in data obtained over a network and is based on each type. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, when the selected information includes multiple types of information constituting a predetermined particular combination, the selected pieces of information are not output.

A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.

A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.