US 11,662,964 B2Granted

Storage medium storing support program supporting general-purpose printing program that is embedded in operating system installed in information processing device

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorYoshito Hosomizo

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Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a support program for an information processing device connectable to a printer. In an operating system of the information processing device, a general-purpose printing program corresponding to the printer is embedded. The support program, when executed by a computer of the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: acquiring; requesting; and processing. The acquiring acquires, in response to a print instruction being issued from an editing application program, status information from the printer. The requesting requests a displaying application program to display a notification screen by transferring a parameter based on the status information to the displaying application program. In response to the print instruction being issued from the editing application program, the processing processes for transmitting print data based on the print instruction to the printer without waiting for the displaying application program to terminate displaying the notification screen.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a support program for an information processing device connectable to a printer, the information processing device including:

a communication interface;
a user interface;
a computer;
and a memory storing:
an editing application program;
a displaying application program;
and an operating system in which a general-purpose printing program corresponding to the printer is embedded, the support program supporting the general-purpose printing program, the support program, when executed by the computer, causing the information processing device to perform:
(a) acquiring, in response to a print instruction being issued from the editing application program, status information from the printer via the communication interface, the print instruction instructing the general-purpose printing program to execute printing on the printer, the status information indicating a current status of the printer;
(b) requesting the displaying application program to display a notification screen for issuing a notification corresponding to the status information acquired in the (a) acquiring by transferring a parameter based on the status information to the displaying application program, the displaying application program being configured to run as a separate process from the editing application program and being capable of displaying the notification screen on the user interface;
and
in response to the print instruction being issued from the editing application program, (c) processing for transmitting print data based on the print instruction to the printer without waiting for the displaying application program to terminate displaying the notification screen.

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An information processing device comprising:

a communication interface through which the information processing device is connectable to a printer;
a user interface;
a computer;
and
a memory storing:
an operating system in which a general-purpose printing program corresponding to the printer is embedded;
a support program supporting the general-purpose printing program;
a displaying application program capable of displaying a notification screen corresponding to status information on the user interface, the status information indicating a current status of the printer;
and
an editing application program capable of running as a separate process from the displaying application program,
wherein the support program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing device to perform:
(a) acquiring, in response to a print instruction being issued from the editing application program, status information from the printer via the communication interface, the print instruction instructing the general-purpose printing program to execute printing on the printer, the status information indicating a current status of the printer;
(b) requesting the displaying application program to display a notification screen for issuing a notification corresponding to the status information acquired in the (a) acquiring by transferring a parameter based on the status information to the displaying application program;
and
in response to the print instruction being issued from the editing application program, (c) processing for transmitting print data based on the print instruction to the printer,
wherein the displaying application program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing device to perform:
(d) displaying, on the user interface, the notification screen corresponding to the parameter transferred from the support program in the (b) requesting,
wherein the (c) processing is performed without waiting for the (d) displaying to terminate displaying the notification screen.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/726,180Filed 21 Apr 2022
Priority: JP JP2021-07492727 Apr 2021
Published: US 2022/0342614 A127 Oct 2022
Granted: 30 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 3/1229
Specifically adapted to use a particular technique: printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
G06F 3/1203
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
G06F 3/1214
Achieving reduced delay between job submission and print start: at the submitting node
G06F 3/1228
Client or server resources management: printing driverless or using generic drivers