Glossary Of Terms - Ricoh GlobalScan Administrator's Manual

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GlobalScan Ver. 2.0
Administrator's Guide
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A p p e n d i x K G l o s s a r y o f T e r m s
Address Book, Global – In a mail system, a list of users with whom you communicate.
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API (Application Program Interface) – Software that is used to translate the needs of one application
to the features of another.
Document/Content Management System – A category of software solutions that are designed to
make the management of content (documents, XML, images, video, audio and other file types and
formats) easier. Also called Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Integrated Document
Management and Enterprise Document Management (EDM).
E-mail (Electronic Mail) – A Service for sending messages over a computer network.
Framework – See "Services."
GlobalScan Data Service – This is the Service which provides a public data interface for other
components, as well as a private data interface for Job Monitor Service. Also see GlobalScan Job
Monitor Service.
GlobalScan Failover Service – This Service manages the synchronization between GlobalScan's
primary and secondary servers.
GlobalScan Framework – GlobalScan Framework provide Application Developers (Independent
Software Vendors, Systems Integrators, VARs, etc.) with sample code and resources needed to
customize GlobalScan to meet their customers' specific Document/Content Management System
requirements. See Appendix B for details.
GlobalScan Job Monitor Service – This is the Service that provides job monitoring and queuing
within GlobalScan.
Heartbeat – A heartbeat is a file named "heartbeat.dat" located in the OCR heartbeat folder, e.g.,
c:\ocr, generated by the "OFCMonitor" service that GlobalScan's Job Monitor Service examines in
order to determine whether or not OCR is up and running.
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Secure) – The protocol used by the World Wide Web for
sending HTML pages from a server computer to a client computer.
Keep-alive Timer – The time in which a GlobalScan session remains open (max. 585
seconds). This number will define the time interval at which the MFDs will contact the server
with a request to keep the server session alive.
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