US 10,949,139 B2Granted

Printing apparatus having a predetermined memory used as spool buffer for print jobs

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorYasufumi Ogasawara

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Abstract

A printing apparatus accepts an input related to a secure print job, controls a size of a spool area in a predetermined memory for secure print jobs in response to an input related to the accepted secure print job, and executes secure printing based on the secure print job in response to a user operation. Non-secure printing is executed based on a non-secure print job without a user operation being performed, acceptance of the input related to the secure print job is acceptance of an input indicating that an environment of the printing apparatus is an environment in which secure printing is executed more than non-secure printing, and in response to the accepted input, the size of the spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory becomes larger than a size of a spool area for non-secure print jobs in the predetermined memory.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus having a predetermined memory used as a spool buffer for print jobs, the apparatus comprising:

at least one processor that executes instructions to operate as:
an acceptance unit configured to accept an input related to a secure print job;
a control unit configured to control a size of a spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory in response to an input related to the accepted secure print job;
and
a printing unit configured to execute secure printing based on the secure print job in response to a user operation on the printing apparatus being performed after the secure print job is transmitted from an information processing apparatus,
wherein the printing unit is capable of executing non-secure printing based on a non-secure print job without a user operation being performed on the printing apparatus after the non-secure print job is transmitted from the information processing apparatus,
acceptance of the input related to the secure print job is acceptance of an input indicating that an environment of the printing apparatus is an environment in which secure printing is executed more than non-secure printing, and
the control unit, in response to the accepted input related to the secure print job, performs control so that the size of the spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory becomes larger than a size of a spool area for non-secure print jobs in the predetermined memory.

5 more elements

A printing apparatus having a predetermined memory used as a spool buffer for print jobs, the apparatus comprising:

at least one processor that executes instructions to operate as:
an acceptance unit configured to accept an input related to a secure print job;
a control unit configured to control a size of a spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory in response to an input related to the accepted secure print job;
and
a printing unit configured to execute secure printing based on the secure print job in response to a user operation on the printing apparatus being performed after the secure print job is transmitted from an information processing apparatus, wherein
the acceptance of input relating to the secure print job is the reception of the secure print job in a predetermined period of time,
based on the secure print job received in the predetermined period of time, the control unit controls the size of the spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory for a specific period of time after the predetermined period of time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/731,204Filed 31 Dec 2019
Priority: JP JP2019-01053924 Jan 2019
Published: US 2020/0241808 A130 Jul 2020
Granted: 16 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 3/122
Reducing or saving of used resources, e.g. avoiding waste of consumables or improving usage of hardware resources: with regard to computing…
G06F 3/1238
Print job management: secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a…
G06F 3/1267
Print job management: job repository, e.g. non-scheduled jobs, delay printing
G06F 3/1285
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure: remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server