Server system, printing apparatus, control method, and communication system for audio notification and screen notification
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYu Tomioka
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Abstract
The present invention offers a system including a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of predetermined information, first notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to a printing apparatus, and second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message.
Claims20
A communication system including a printing apparatus for performing print processing by applying a recording agent onto a recording medium via a printing unit, and a server system that communicates with the printing apparatus, the communication system comprising:
- a first transmission unit configured to transmit information for causing the printing apparatus to perform the print processing;
- a printing unit configured to perform the print processing based on information for causing the printing apparatus to perform the print processing;
- a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information based on a predetermined speech instruction given to an audio control device;
- a second transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of the predetermined information, first notification information for causing the audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to the printing apparatus;
- and
- a third transmission unit configured to transmit, based on the reception of the predetermined information, second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message,
- wherein, in a case that the first notification information is transmitted, the first message is audibly notified to the user by the audio control device, and
- wherein, in a case that the second notification information is transmitted, the second message is notified to the user through the notification screen by the terminal device.
A method for controlling a communication system including a printing apparatus for performing print processing by applying a recording agent onto a recording medium via a printing unit, and a server system that communicates with the printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- transmitting, information for causing the printing apparatus to perform the print processing;
- performing the print processing based on information for causing the printing apparatus to perform the print processing;
- receiving predetermined information based on a predetermined speech instruction given to the audio control device;
- transmitting, based on a reception of the predetermined information, first notification information for causing the audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to the printing apparatus;
- and
- transmitting, based on the reception of the predetermined information, second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message,
- wherein, in a case that the first notification information is transmitted, the first message is audibly notified to the user by the audio control device, and
- wherein, in a case that the second notification information is transmitted, the second message is notified to the user through the notification screen by the terminal device.
A server system that communicates with a printing apparatus for performing print processing by applying a recording agent onto a recording medium via a printing unit, the server system comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information based on a predetermined speech instruction given to the audio control device;
- a first transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of the predetermined information, first notification information for causing the audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to the printing apparatus;
- and
- a second transmission unit configured to transmit, based on the reception of the predetermined information, second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message,
- wherein, in a case that the first notification information is transmitted, the first message is audibly notified to the user by the audio control device, and
- wherein, in a case that the second notification information is transmitted, the second message is notified to the user through the notification screen by the terminal device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.