Image processing apparatus with self-determination of communication capability with a server, and image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSoichiro Katayama
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Abstract
Provided is an an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can suppress a reduction in the processing speed. To this end, whether the connection state between a printer and a server is online is determined by confirming the connection state between the printer and a relay device and whether there is an un-transmitted operation log.
Claims16
An image processing apparatus that is communicable with a server and is configured to execute printing processing, comprising:
- a storage unit that stores information including an operation log indicating operation history of the image processing apparatus;
- a transmission unit that transmits the operation log stored in the storage unit and delete an operation log that is transmitted successfully from the storage unit;
- and
- a determination unit that executes determination processing for determining whether it is possible to communicate with the server while printing processing is executed, wherein
- the determination processing is executed based on the information held in the storage unit.
An image processing system, comprising:
- an image processing apparatus that includes a storage unit that stores an operation log indicating operation history of the image processing apparatus and a transmission unit that transmits the operation log stored in the storage unit and delete an operation log that is transmitted successfully from the storage unit;
- and
- a server that is connected with the image processing apparatus through a network by way of a relay device that allocates an IP address to a connected device, wherein
- the image processing apparatus further includes a determination unit that determines that the connection state with the server is online if an IP address is allocated to the image processing apparatus while no operation log is stored in the storage unit and a permission unit that permits predetermined processing if the connection state with the server is online.
An image processing method, comprising:
- storing an operation log indicating operation history of the image processing apparatus in a storage unit;
- transmitting the operation log stored in the storing and deleting an operation log transmitted successfully from the storage unit;
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- connecting with a server through a network by way of a relay device that allocates an IP address to a connected device, further comprising:
- determining that the connection state with the server is online if an IP address is allocated to the image processing apparatus while no operation log is stored in the storage unit;
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- permitting predetermined processing if the connection state with the server is online.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program that functions a computer as a unit of an image processing apparatus that is communicable with a server and is configured to execute printing processing, comprising:
- a storage unit that stores information including an operation log indicating operation history of the image processing apparatus;
- a transmission unit that transmits the operation log stored in the storage unit and delete an operation log that is transmitted successfully from the storage unit;
- and
- a determination unit that executes determination processing for determining whether it is possible to communicate with the server while printing processing is executed, wherein
- the determination processing is executed based on the information held in the storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.