US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 22 for "Information processing system, information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,491, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hiroki Uchibori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system, apparatus, and method are disclosed each of which: receives a request for using an application from an electronic device via a network; determines whether the requested application is applicable to the electronic device and is currently useable by the electronic device; determines whether a number of devices currently using the requested application has reached an uppe...