US 12,118,066 B2
Information processing system, information processing apparatus and information processing method
Hiroki Uchibori, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Hiroki Uchibori, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/923,253.
Application 16/923,253 is a continuation of application No. 16/115,981, filed on Aug. 29, 2018, granted, now 10,769,251.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-184188 (JP), filed on Sep. 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0334342 A1, Oct. 22, 2020
Int. Cl. H04L 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/128 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing system comprising: circuitry configured to: receive a request for using a service from an electronic device connected to the information processing system via a network; determine, in response to the request, a number of assigned licenses of the service requested in the request; determine, based on the request, whether the service requested is useable by the electronic device; determine, upon determining that the service requested is not useable by the electronic device, whether the number of the assigned licenses of the service requested is below a threshold; and transmit an error notification to the electronic device based on determining that a license corresponding to the service is not assigned to a requester corresponding to the request, and determining that the number of assigned licenses is not below the threshold.