Image Output History Management via Batch Transfer
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image output systems face challenges in managing user usage history across multiple devices without compromising processing rates, particularly in environments where unauthorized access and document confidentiality are concerns, and sequential data transfer to servers can lead to overloaded conditions.
Innovation Solution
An image management system that includes an image output apparatus and a server connected via a communication network, where the apparatus obtains and stores user information and image data as history information, transfers it to the server, and manages storage space, allowing for periodic and space-based data transfer, ensuring secure and efficient usage history management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If image data is sequentially transferred to the server for every output, then unified management of usage history is achieved, but the processing rate of image output decreases and overloaded conditions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the history transfer process by dividing it into periodic batch transfers instead of continuous sequential transfers. The image output apparatus transfers history information to the server at predetermined intervals or when storage capacity thresholds are reached, separating the management function from the real-time output function to avoid overload conditions while maintaining unified management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements periodic action by establishing predetermined time intervals or storage capacity thresholds for transferring history information. The system periodically transfers accumulated history data to the server rather than transferring every single output immediately, which maintains reliable centralized management while preventing continuous overload and preserving high processing rates.
2Loss of information
If all image data is stored in the storage device, then complete usage history is recorded, but the device complexity increases when managing multiple image output apparatuses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the history storage function into a centralized server rather than distributing storage across multiple image output apparatuses. All history information from multiple devices is transferred to and stored in a single location on the server, which reduces management complexity by providing unified access and control while preserving the completeness of usage history from all devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives, stores, and manages history information from multiple image output apparatuses. This intermediary approach simplifies the management architecture by providing a single point of access for history data, eliminating the need for operators to refer to multiple individual device storage devices, while ensuring complete recording of usage history from all sources.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is an image management system including an image output apparatus and a server. The image output apparatus includes an obtaining unit to obtain user information when the image data is output, a history storage unit to accumulate and store the user information which is obtained by the obtaining unit and the image data which is output as history information, a history transfer unit to transfer the history information which is stored in the history storage unit to the server, and a deletion unit to delete the history information which is transferred by the history transfer unit from the history storage unit. The server includes a receiving unit to receive the history information which is transferred from the image output apparatus, and a history management unit to accumulate and store the history information which is received by the receiving unit.