JP2009043038A - Data distribution apparatus, data distribution system, and data distribution method - Google Patents

Abstract

Also in data transfer, it is possible to quickly determine the validity of a transfer destination and to quickly process from a transfer instruction to the end of transfer.
A distribution destination information recording unit 121 that records distribution destination information, a distribution destination information batch registration unit 123 that collectively registers distribution destination information in a distribution destination information recording unit 121, and the validity of the distribution destination information are confirmed. A delivery destination information validity check processing unit 123a, and an external system connection processing unit 124 that performs a connection process between the delivery destination external system 300 and the delivery destination. When the validity check processing unit 123a needs to be connected, the validity check processing unit 123a is connected to the external system 300 at a timing different from the time when the distribution destination information is collectively registered, and the validity check processing is performed.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a data distribution apparatus that transfers data input from an external input apparatus to a specified distribution destination, a data distribution system including the data distribution apparatus, and a data distribution method executed by the data distribution apparatus.

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a network communication system including a network multifunction peripheral that is connected to a network, applies a plurality of communication protocols, and can communicate various data with other terminal devices has been constructed. As an example of such a system, for example, the invention described in Patent Document 1 is known. An object of the present invention is to provide an authentication method capable of improving the user-friendliness when a biometric authentication system is used. When fingerprint information is input from the fingerprint sensor in a login enabled state, the login information table is displayed. Based on the stored login information of each registered user, the authentication priority order of each registered user is set, and the fingerprint information of each finger registered in the fingerprint information table from the registered user having the higher authentication priority order The collation with the inputted fingerprint information is performed. As a result, in this known example, the time required for authentication using fingerprints can be greatly reduced, and the user-friendliness can be significantly improved.
No. 2005-242521

  On the other hand, some network communication systems as described above have a function of transferring data input from an external input device to a designated destination, for example. Thus, when transferring data to a designated destination, the validity of the delivery destination information when delivering the data becomes a problem. In the known example, when the fingerprint information is input from the fingerprint sensor in the login enabled state as described above, the authentication priority order of each registered user is set based on the login information of each registered user stored in the login information table. The fingerprint information of each finger registered in the fingerprint information table from the registered user with the highest authentication priority set is collated with the entered fingerprint information, and various processes can be performed based on the collation result. It is trying to become.

  However, the processing at the time of data transfer is not particularly mentioned.

  Therefore, the problem to be solved by the present invention is to quickly determine the validity of a transfer destination even in data transfer, and to be able to quickly process from the transfer instruction to the end of transfer.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the first means includes a delivery destination information recording means for recording delivery destination information in a data delivery apparatus that transfers data input from an external input device to a designated delivery destination, and the delivery Delivery destination information batch registration means for batch registration of destination information in the delivery destination information recording means, delivery destination information validity confirmation processing means for confirming validity of the delivery destination information, external system of the delivery destination, and the delivery External system connection processing means for performing connection processing with destination information recording means, and when the external system connection processing means requires connection to the external system for validity check processing of the delivery destination information, the delivery destination information Are connected to the external system at a timing different from the time of batch registration, and the validity check process is performed.

  The second means is characterized in that, in the first means, the validity checking process timing different from the batch registration timing is executed as an asynchronous process with respect to the batch registration timing.

  According to a third means, in the first means, the timing of the validity checking process different from the batch registration time point is just before the delivery data output to the external system, and the validity checking process is not performed. It is characterized by being executed only in cases.

  The fourth means is characterized in that, in the second or third means, the validity confirmation processing is validity confirmation of authentication information.

  A fifth means is characterized in that, in any one of the second to fourth means, the validity confirmation processing is acquisition of an internal ID of a delivery destination based on information input to the batch registration data.

  A sixth means includes a data distribution device according to any one of the first to fifth means, the external input device for inputting distribution data and a distribution destination to the data distribution device, and distribution data from the data distribution device. A data distribution system comprising the external system that is input is characterized.

  In a data distribution method for transferring data input from an external input device to a specified distribution destination, a seventh means includes a distribution destination information recording step for recording distribution destination information, and the distribution destination information as the distribution destination information. Distribution destination information batch registration step for batch registration in the recording step, distribution destination information validity confirmation processing step for confirming the validity of the distribution destination information, connection between the external system of the distribution destination and the distribution destination information recording means An external system connection processing step for performing processing, and when the connection to the external system is necessary for the validity confirmation processing of the distribution destination information in the external system connection processing step, The validity check process is performed by connecting to the external system at different timings.

  In the embodiment described later, the data distribution device is designated by reference numeral 100, the delivery destination information recording means is designated by the delivery destination information recording unit 121, and the delivery destination information collective registration means is designated by the delivery destination information collective registration unit 123. The validity confirmation processing means corresponds to the delivery destination information validity confirmation processing section 123a, and the external system connection processing means corresponds to the external system connection processing section 124.

  According to the present invention, when connection to the external system is necessary for the validity confirmation process of the distribution destination information, the connection to the external system is performed at a timing different from the time when the distribution destination information is collectively registered, and the validity Since the confirmation process is performed, also in data transfer, it is possible to quickly determine the validity of the transfer destination, and to quickly process from the transfer instruction to the end of transfer.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a precondition of a data transfer system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the data transfer system is composed of a data distribution device 100, an external input device 200, and an external system 300. The data distribution device 100 is connected to the external input device 200 via a first network 400, for example, a LAN, The second system 500 is connected to the external system 300 via, for example, the Internet. Both can communicate bidirectionally.

  The data distribution apparatus 100 includes a distribution data input processing unit 110, a distribution data routing processing unit 120, a first distribution data output processing unit (shown as a distribution data output processing unit (1) in the figure) 130, a second distribution data output process Section (shown as distribution data output processing section (2) in the figure) 140 and distribution data registration database 150. The distribution data routing processing unit 120 is further connected to the distribution destination information recording unit 121 so as to communicate with each other. The distribution information recording unit 121 records the distribution destination information transferred from the distribution destination information batch registration unit 123 that collectively registers the distribution destination information input from the distribution destination information batch registration user interface (UI) 122. In addition, the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123 is further provided with a delivery destination information validity confirmation processing unit 123a. For example, a document router corresponds to the data distribution apparatus 100.

  The external input device 200 includes at least a PC (personal computer) 210 and a scanner 220. The PC 210 includes a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM. The program code stored in the ROM or input from the outside is expanded in the RAM. Data necessary for processing is dropped in the RAM and various controls are performed based on the program code. Execute. The external input device 200 has a function of registering distribution destination information collectively from data such as CSV. The distribution destination information is distribution data and distribution destination data. The distribution data and the distribution destination are input from the PC 210 and sent to the data distribution apparatus 100 via the first network 400.

  The distribution data is image data such as TIFF or application data output from an application such as word processing software. The distribution destination is an ID of distribution destination information recorded in the distribution destination information recording unit 121. The external input device 200 has a function of registering distribution destination information collectively from data such as CSV, but can also be set one by one from a UI (user interface).

  The distribution data input processing unit 110 receives the distribution destination information from the external input device 200, performs input processing, and sends it to the distribution data routing processing unit 120. The distribution data routing processing unit 120 performs routing based on the input distribution destination information. The routed distribution data is processed by the first and second distribution data output processing units 130 and 140, the former is transferred to the external system 300 via the second network 500, and the latter is transferred to the distribution data registration database 150. Is done. The external system 300 is, for example, a server or a file server, and can distribute distribution data to lower-level PCs by client access.

  In the distribution data routing processing unit 120, the distribution destination information input from the distribution destination information batch registration UI 122 is registered by the distribution destination information batch registration unit 123 and recorded in the distribution destination information recording unit 121. At that time, processing for confirming the validity of the delivery destination information is performed by the delivery destination information validity confirmation processing unit 123a of the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a distribution destination information recording unit in the system of FIG. The delivery destination information recording unit 121 stores a delivery destination ID, delivery data output processing to be used, authentication information, a delivery destination, a delivery destination display name, and the like. Here, the distribution destination ID is an ID for identifying the distribution destination, and the distribution data output processing to be used is an ID for identifying the external system related processing table. Further, the authentication information is a name and a password, and the distribution destination is an identifier in the external system, and is an ID that can uniquely identify the distribution destination in the external system, for example, server1 and fol1. The delivery destination display name is the name or full path of the delivery destination that the user actually sees, and is, for example, a display of server1 / fol1.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the relationship between the ID and address of the distribution data output processing, and the relationship between the ID and address for identifying the external system related processing table is stored in the table.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a data format registered by the distribution destination information batch registration unit 123 in the system of FIG. This data is CSV data, and a distribution data output process, a folder to be output, and a subfolder are registered.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the delivery destination information batch registration unit in FIG. In this processing procedure, the batch registration data is acquired by the distribution destination information batch registration UI 122 (step S101), and the acquired batch registration data is passed to the distribution destination information batch registration unit (step S102). The delivery destination information batch registration unit 123 acquires data from the delivery destination information batch registration UI 122 (step S111), and the delivery destination information validity check processing unit 123a checks the validity of the obtained delivery destination data for each delivery destination data. (Step S112). Then, the delivery destination data whose validity has been confirmed is registered in the database of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S113).

  At that time, the delivery destination information for the external system 300 needs to be accessed to the external server every time the delivery destination information validity check processing unit 123a performs validity check. For this reason, the processing speed may be reduced. In particular, when a large number of batch registrations of 100,000 or more are performed, the reduction in processing speed becomes remarkable.

The validity check of the delivery destination here means the following.
For example, if the distribution destination is a shared folder of the file server of the external system 300, a user name and password for the shared folder are required to distribute the TIFF document to the shared folder of the file server. Therefore, as “distribution destination information”, the password and the authority to write to the shared folder are held in the database of the distribution destination information recording unit 121. The CSV is used to collectively register a plurality of delivery destination information in the database. That is, when actually delivering, the delivery destination information is taken from the database and used.

Validity is
1) Is the password correct?
2) Does the user have write permission to the shared folder?
Judge about the point. that time,
1) Is it possible to authenticate to the shared folder with the user password?
2) Is the user authorized to write to the supply folder?
To check about.

After such judgment and check,
1) Appropriate state in which authentication passes with user password.
2) It is appropriate that the user has write permission for the shared folder.
Judge. This is because such a validity check or judgment is impossible when the password is not authenticated and when the user does not have the write authority, and cannot be distributed, and can be distributed only when the authentication is successful and the user has the write authority.

  As described above, in the system configuration of FIG. 1, the processing speed of the delivery destination information validity confirmation processing unit 123a becomes slower as the number of batch processing increases, so in this embodiment, in order to prevent a reduction in processing speed, FIG. As shown in FIG. This will be described as an example.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of Example 1 in the present embodiment. This embodiment is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a data distribution system capable of processing while preventing a decrease in processing speed.

In this figure, this embodiment is different from the example in FIG. 1 in that the delivery destination information validity registration processing unit 123 a provided in the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123 is independent of the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123. In addition, an external system connection processing unit 124 is additionally provided. The external system connection processing unit 124 includes an authentication information confirmation processing unit 124a and a distribution destination information acquisition processing unit 124b. The external system connection processing unit 124 is connected to the distribution destination information recording unit 121 so as to be able to communicate with each other, and the distribution destination information validity confirmation processing unit 123a. Information from is input.
Other parts are the same as those of the system shown in FIG.

  In this configuration, when the distribution destination information batch registration unit 123 performs batch registration, the distribution destination information is stored in the database of the distribution destination information recording unit 123 without performing the validity check process in the distribution destination information validity check processing unit 123a. Then, connection to the external system 300 is performed at another timing, and the result is registered in the database of the distribution destination information recording unit.

As a timing to connect to the external system 300,
Pattern (1): Asynchronous validity check is performed by connecting to an external system.
Pattern (2): Validity check is performed during delivery data output processing.
There are two timings. In any case, validity checking is not performed before storing in the database. Of these, the pattern (1) corresponds to the first embodiment, and the pattern (2) corresponds to the second embodiment.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a batch registration format in the first embodiment. In the format of FIG. 4, after the CSV information is registered in the database of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S <b> 113-FIG. 5), the validity is not checked. This is because the validity check has already been performed in step S112. For this reason, the format shown in FIG. 4 does not correspond to a file whose validity needs to be confirmed, for example, a file having a user name or a password.

  On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the validity check is performed asynchronously (irrelevant timing) with the timing of batch registration by the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123 as described above. Information necessary for confirmation of validity is described. That is, in FIG. 7, in addition to the contents of the distribution data output process, a server and a user name for distribution necessary for confirmation of validity are described.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the delivery destination information table in the present embodiment, and corresponds to FIG. 2 described above. Compared with FIG. 2, in the example of FIG. 8, the confirmed flag is described in addition to the distribution destination ID, the distribution data output process to be used, the authentication information, the distribution destination, and the distribution destination display name. This confirmed flag is a flag indicating whether or not the delivery destination information confirmation processing unit 123a is executing delivery destination information confirmation processing.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of the external system related processing table, which corresponds to FIG. Compared with FIG. 3, in addition to the ID and the address to the distribution data output process, the address to the external system connection process is described.

  In the present embodiment configured as described above, there are two patterns for batch registration according to the difference in timing of connection to the external system 300 as described above. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure for batch registration of the pattern (1).

  In the figure, first, the delivery destination information batch registration unit 123 acquires data from the delivery destination information batch registration UI 122 (step S201), and stores the acquired data in the database of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S202). Next, the delivery destination information validity check processing unit 123a is used to check the validity of the delivery destination as an asynchronous process with respect to the storage timing of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 in the database (step S203). In this case, validity confirmation is performed for each distribution destination data (information).

  The delivery destination information validity confirmation processing unit 123a acquires delivery destination data from the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S211), and checks the confirmed flag in the delivery destination information table of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S212). ). In this check, if the confirmed flag is not set (step S212-False), the next distribution information confirmation process is performed, the next distribution destination data is acquired from the distribution destination information recording unit 121 (step S211), and the confirmation is performed. The process of checking the completed flag (step S212) is repeated.

  When the confirmed flag is set (step S212—True), an address from the distribution data output processing unit 130 to be used to the external system connection processing unit 124 is acquired (step S213), and the external system connection processing unit 124 External system connection processing is executed (step S214). When the data of the delivery destination information is updated, it is reflected in the database of the delivery destination information recording unit 121. If the delivery destination information is not valid, error processing is performed (step S215).

In the error processing performed here, an error log table (not shown) describes “the delivery destination authentication information of the delivery destination: server / fol1, user name: XXX may be incorrect”. This log can be viewed from the management application of the distribution destination system. Note that the authentication in this embodiment consists of two processes for a shared folder. That is,
1) Using a connection API for connecting to a file server by a program, a user name and a password are input and authentication is actually performed.
2) After the authentication is successful in 1), a list of access rights to the shared folder is acquired using the API, and it is confirmed whether or not the authenticated user has the write authority.
That's it.

  After reflecting the data update of the distribution destination information or error processing in step S215, the external system connection processing unit 124 acquires the internal ID from the external system 300 based on the distribution destination display name (step S221). The processing of the distribution destination information acquisition processing unit 124b is executed (step S222). The process of the distribution destination information acquisition processing unit 124b is a process of acquiring information stored in the distribution destination information table shown in FIG. 8 (step S231). If the acquisition fails, the error process is executed. (Step S232).

  In step S221, an internal ID is acquired from the external system 300 based on the distribution destination display name, and the external system 300 is authenticated. This authentication is performed by the authentication information confirmation processing unit 124a. The authentication information confirmation processing unit 124a performs an authentication process for the external system 300 based on the authentication information such as the user / password and the domain (step S241). Note that authentication information varies depending on the external system 300. If authentication fails, the error process is executed (step S242).

  By such processing, the pattern (1) is collectively registered and the validity check is performed.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a batch registration processing procedure according to the second embodiment, which corresponds to the pattern (2).
Since the system configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment, a duplicate description is omitted.

  In the figure, first, the delivery destination information batch registration processing unit 123 acquires data from the delivery destination information batch registration UI 122 (step S301), and stores the acquired data in the database of the delivery destination information recording unit 121 (step S302). .

  On the other hand, the distribution data output processing unit (1) acquires the distribution destination data from the distribution data routing processing unit 120 (step S311), and checks the confirmed flag in the distribution destination information table (step S312). If the confirmed flag can be confirmed by this check (step S312—confirmed), a distribution process to the external system 300 is performed (step S314). If the confirmed flag cannot be confirmed (step S312-unconfirmed), the process of the external system connection processing unit 124 is executed (step S313), and the distribution process is performed (step S314). Note that the processing of the external system connection processing unit 124 corresponds to the processing of steps S221 and S222 in FIG.

  By such processing, the pattern (2) is collectively registered and the validity check is performed.

  Other parts not specifically described are configured in the same manner as in the first embodiment and function in the same manner.

It is a figure which shows the structure used as the premise of the data transfer system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the delivery destination information recording part in the system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship between ID and address of a delivery data output process. It is a figure which shows an example of the data format registered in the delivery destination information batch registration part in the system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the delivery destination information batch registration part in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of Example 1 in this embodiment. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a batch registration format in Embodiment 1. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a distribution destination information table in Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of an external system related process table. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure for batch registration of distribution destination information according to the first exemplary embodiment. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for batch registration of distribution destination information according to the second embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Data delivery apparatus 110 Delivery data input part 120 Delivery data routing process part 121 Delivery destination information recording part 122 Delivery destination information batch registration UI
123 Distribution destination information batch registration unit 123a Distribution destination information validity confirmation processing unit 124 External system connection processing unit 124a Authentication information confirmation processing unit 124b Distribution destination information acquisition processing unit 130, 140 Distribution data output processing unit 150 Distribution data registration database 200 External Input device 210 PC (personal computer)
220 Scanner 300 External system

Claims (7)

In a data distribution device that transfers data input from an external input device to a specified distribution destination,
Distribution destination information recording means for recording distribution destination information;
Delivery destination information batch registration means for batch registration of the delivery destination information in the delivery destination information recording means;
A delivery destination information validity check processing means for checking the validity of the delivery destination information;
External system connection processing means for performing connection processing between the external system of the distribution destination and the distribution destination information recording means;
With
The external system connection processing means connects to the external system at a timing different from the time of batch registration of the distribution destination information when the connection to the external system is required for the validity confirmation processing of the distribution destination information. A data distribution apparatus that performs a sex confirmation process. The data distribution apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
The data distribution apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the timing of the validity checking process different from the batch registration time is executed as an asynchronous process with respect to the batch registration timing. The data distribution apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
The data distribution is executed only when the validity check process different from the batch registration timing is immediately before the distribution data output to the external system and the validity check process is not executed. apparatus. The data distribution device according to claim 2 or 3,
A data distribution apparatus, wherein the validity confirmation processing is validity confirmation of authentication information. The data distribution apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
A data distribution apparatus characterized in that the validity check process is acquisition of an internal ID of a distribution destination based on information input to batch registration data. A data distribution apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The external input device for inputting distribution data and a distribution destination to the data distribution device;
The external system to which distribution data is input from the data distribution device;
A data distribution system comprising: In a data distribution method for transferring data input from an external input device to a specified distribution destination,
A delivery destination information recording step for recording delivery destination information;
A delivery destination information batch registration step of batch registration of the delivery destination information in the delivery destination information recording step;
A delivery destination information validity checking process for checking the validity of the delivery destination information;
An external system connection processing step for performing connection processing between the external system of the distribution destination and the distribution destination information recording means;
With
When connection to the external system is required for the validity check processing of the delivery destination information in the external system connection processing step, the connection to the external system is performed at a timing different from the time of batch registration of the delivery destination information. A data distribution method characterized by performing sex confirmation processing.

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