| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve user's satisfaction by making it possible to perform various functions and to prevent waste of network resources by reducing the burden of a network manager in a multifunction system. <P>SOLUTION: A multifunction server 1 provides a device group 2 connected to a local network LN with addresses and performs network setting. The multifunction server 1 and the device group 2 on the local network LN constitute a virtual multifunction device VD. A PC group 3 on a public network PN separated from the local network LN instructs the virtual multifunction device VD to perform printing, scanning, facsimile transmission, copying, or the like. The multifunction server 1 assigns processing instructed by the PC group 3 to the device group 2 to make the device group 2 perform the processing and transmits processing results made by the device group 2 to the PC group 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |
