Image forming system, image forming device, and non-transitory computer readable medium with user correlated priority order for utilizing image forming devices

摘要

Provided is an image forming system including plural image forming devices, a first storage unit that stores user information and device information, an updating unit that updates the device information, and a transmitting device that transmits image data to an image forming device, each image forming device including a second storage unit that stores the image data, a receiving unit that receives an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data from an image forming device, an image forming unit that forms an image, a counter unit that measures frequency in which image data is acquired by another image forming device and stores the user information, the device information, and the measured frequency in the second storage unit in a correlated manner, and a transmitting unit that transmits the user information and the device information to the updating unit.

主权项

1. An image forming system comprising:
a plurality of image forming devices; a first storage unit that stores user information for identifying a user and device information indicating an image forming device included in the plurality of image forming devices in a correlated manner, the device information including a priority order of the plurality of image forming devices; an updating unit that updates the device information stored in the first storage unit; and a transmitting device that transmits image data to an image forming device correlated with the user information indicated by the device information stored in the first storage unit, responsive to the priority order of the plurality of image forming devices, wherein each image forming device included in the plurality of image forming devices includes a second storage unit that stores the image data transmitted from the transmitting device, a receiving unit that receives an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data from one of the plurality of image forming devices according to the priority order, the image data corresponding to the user information from an image forming device correlated with the input user information indicated by the device information stored in the first storage unit so as to be correlated with the input user information, an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data acquired by the first acquiring unit, a counter unit that measures frequency in which image data corresponding to the user information stored in the first storage unit so as to be correlated with device information indicating an own device is requested by other image forming devices included in the plurality of image forming devices and stores the user information, the device information indicating the other image forming devices, and the measured frequency in the second storage unit in a correlated manner, and a transmitting unit that transmits, responsive to the frequency stored in the second storage unit reaching a threshold value greater than one, the user information and the device information stored in correlation with the frequency to the updating unit of only an other image forming device having the frequency that has reached the threshold value, and wherein the updating unit updates the device information, including the priority order of the plurality of image forming devices, so that the user information and the device information transmitted from the transmitting unit are stored in a correlated manner.