A processing apparatus includes a memory, a processor, and a setting processor. The memory has plural memory areas, and the plural memory areas include registered memory areas that are registered to be used, and unregistered memory areas that are not registered to be used. The processor stores input data in a corresponding memory area among the plural memory areas. In response to an instruction to perform a setting process related to a function which uses a memory area, the setting processor executes a setting process including registering a memory area selected from among the unregistered memory areas to use the selected memory area for the function or including presenting the selected memory area to a user as a candidate for the memory area used by the function.

An intermediary terminal for mediating a communication between a data generation device that generates target data, and a server that controls service content usable with the data generation device, includes circuitry configured to acquire, from the data generation device, device identification information identifying the data generation device; transmit the acquired device identification information to the server via a communication network; receive, from the server, service content information indicating a service content associated with the device identification information; and execute processing on the target data input from the data generation device in accordance with the service content indicated by the service content information.

An image forming apparatus capable of achieving both convenience of a user and defense against external threats is provided. The image forming apparatus that transmits and receives data to and from a plurality of external apparatuses via a plurality of network ports includes a setting unit configured to set an application permitted to be used in a mode, which blocks the network ports other than a prescribed network port in response to a request from the outside, a job storing unit configured such that in a case that a job received from the external apparatus via one of the plurality of network ports is not a job of the application permitted to be used which is set by the setting unit, the received job is stored, an authentication unit configured to perform user authentication, and a print permitting unit configured such that in a case that the user authentication is performed by the authentication unit with respect to a user who generated the stored job, printing of the stored job by the authenticated user is permitted.

An image forming apparatus that is capable of reducing network traffic in sending an audit log. The image forming apparatus is communicable with a communication apparatus. The audit log including multiple types of logs is stored in at least one of the storage device or an external storage device. On receiving from the communication apparatus a request for sending the audit log, the image forming apparatus performs control for sending the audit log to the communication apparatus. In the control for sending the audit log, on receiving the request for sending the audit log, the image forming apparatus sends, to the communication apparatus, information indicating a storage location of one or more logs each having a data amount larger than a predetermined amount among the logs included in the audit log, rather than the one or more logs.

A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

A method of controlling an image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat service includes storing information on a transmission source of image data and a talk room in the chat service in association with each other, receiving image data, transferring the received image data to a stored transfer destination in association with the information on the transmission source of the image data, and notifying the talk room, stored in association with the information on the transmission source of the image data, that the image data has been received.

An image forming device includes: a scanner section; a print section; an operation panel; a communication section configured to communicate with a cloud server; and a controller, wherein the controller transmits document data scanned by using the scanner section to the cloud server and causes the cloud server to store the document data in storage in accordance with an operation performed on the operation panel, and when the document data is specified in accordance with data identifying the document data kept in the storage of the cloud server in accordance with an operation performed on the operation panel, the controller displays a two-dimensional code enabling access to the document data stored in the storage of the cloud server.

An image forming apparatus capable of achieving both convenience of a user and defense against external threats is provided. The image forming apparatus that transmits and receives data to and from a plurality of external apparatuses via a plurality of network ports includes a setting unit configured to set an application permitted to be used in a mode, which blocks the network ports other than a prescribed network port in response to a request from the outside, a job storing unit configured such that in a case that a job received from the external apparatus via one of the plurality of network ports is not a job of the application permitted to be used which is set by the setting unit, the received job is stored, an authentication unit configured to perform user authentication, and a print permitting unit configured such that in a case that the user authentication is performed by the authentication unit with respect to a user who generated the stored job, printing of the stored job by the authenticated user is permitted.

An image sensor system with an image sensor that generates a first image and a second image. The first and second images are transmitted to a processor in a time overlapping manner. By way of example, the images may be transferred to the processor in an interleaving manner or provided on separate dedicated busses.

An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.