Registration Server Approval Workflow for Two-Admin Time Limits

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems require close collaboration between two administrators within a short time frame to register an apparatus on a registration server, posing challenges in coordination and potential misconfiguration due to lack of understanding of the apparatus' installation state.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that facilitates registration reservation and notification to a second administrator, allowing them to permit registration within a predetermined time after initial approval by a first administrator, ensuring timely and appropriate configuration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If permission from a second administrator is required within a short predetermined time from the first administrator's approval, then security and control are improved, but coordination difficulty and registration failure risk increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveregistration securityVSAvoidadministrator coordination

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by notifying the second administrator in advance of the registration request and the time limit before it expires. This allows the second administrator to prepare and respond appropriately within the predetermined time frame, balancing security requirements with operational ease.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If a short predetermined time is set for the second administrator to permit registration, then registration security is improved, but registration failure due to timing issues increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveregistration securityVSAvoidregistration completion rate

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring whether the predetermined time has elapsed and notifying relevant parties of the time limit status. This feedback mechanism ensures that registration operations are completed within the security-defined time window while providing visibility to prevent unnecessary failures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If close collaboration between administrators is required within a short time frame, then security control is improved, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepermission controlVSAvoidcoordination process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system acts as an intermediary between the first and second administrators. It receives the registration request, manages the predetermined time limit, and communicates with the second administrator, thereby simplifying the coordination process while maintaining security controls.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Reliability

If the second administrator must respond within a predetermined time, then security is improved, but flexibility in responding to registration requests decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveregistration controlVSAvoidresponse flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies dynamics by making the notification timing adaptive - the notification is provided at an appropriate time before the predetermined time expires, allowing the second administrator sufficient time to review and respond based on their availability and the specific registration context, while still maintaining the security constraint.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12524184B2Information processing apparatus, computer readable medium, and system requiring collaboration between different administrators within a predetermined time to register target apparatus on a registration server

Publication Date: 2026.01.13 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive a registration reservation with a registration server regarding a registration target apparatus that requires permission for registration on the registration server from a first administrator and a second administrator who is different from the first administrator, the registration reservation being based on an instruction from the first administrator who has permitted the registration of the registration target apparatus on the registration server; provide a reservation notification to the second administrator, the reservation notification indicating that the registration reservation has been received; and transmit, in response to a registration request from the second administrator who has received the reservation notification, a registration start instruction for starting registration processing to the registration target apparatus, the registration processing being processing for registering the registration target apparatus on the registration server and requiring permission from the second administrator within a predetermined time from start of the processing.