US 12,099,755 B2Granted

Printer provided with mode in which print based on print job transmitted from client device is restricted

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsSatoshi Tanimoto, Kosuke Mori, Yuqing Liu, Katsunori Enomoto

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Abstract

A printer includes a controller, a memory, and a user interface. The printer has a first mode and a second mode. The controller disables the first mode when enabling the second mode and disables the second mode when enabling the first mode. The controller executes a first printing process while the first mode is enabled. In the first printing process, the controller receives a print job from a client device, stores the received print job in the memory, and performs printing based on the stored print job upon receiving a storage print command. The controller executes a second printing process and restricts the first printing process while the second mode is enabled. In the second printing process, the controller receives a print job from a server in response to receiving a prescribed input operation via the user interface, and performs printing based on the received print job from the server.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A printer comprising:

a printing engine;
a user interface;
a communication interface;
a memory;
and
a controller comprising hardware,
the controller being configured to:
store in the memory one or more print jobs received from a client device via the communication interface;
and
communicate with a server via the communication interface,
the controller being further configured to perform:
receiving login information via the user interface;
receiving a print command via the user interface after authentication based on the received login information is successful;
in response to receiving the print command, displaying a print job list of one or more print jobs on the user interface;
receiving a selection for a print job from the displayed print job list;
and controlling the printing engine to print the print job selected by the received selection,
the controller being further configured to determine, based on mode information stored in the memory, whether a first mode of the printer is enabled or disenabled and whether a second mode of the printer is enabled or disenabled,
wherein, when determining that the first mode is enabled:
in the displaying the controller displays a first list as the print job list, the first list being a list of one or more first print jobs, the one or more first print jobs being the one or more print jobs stored in the memory;
and in the controlling the controller controls the printing engine to print the first print job selected from the first list by the received selection, and
wherein, when determining that the second mode is enabled:
in the displaying the controller displays a second list as the print job list without displaying the first list, the second list being a list of one or more second print jobs, the one or more second print jobs being one or more print jobs that correspond to a logged-in user for which the authentication based on the received login information is successful, the one or more second print jobs being one or more print jobs that have been received from the client device by the server and have been stored in the server;
and in the controlling the controller controls the printing engine to print the second print job selected from the second list by the received selection, without printing the one or more first print jobs.

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A printing system comprising:

a printer, a server, and a client device which are configured to communicate with one another,
the client device possessing a function to output one or more first print jobs and a function to output one or more second print jobs, the one or more first print jobs being one or more print jobs whose transmission destination is set to the printer, the one or more second print jobs being one or more print jobs whose transmission destination is set to the server,
the printer including a printer memory and a user interface, the printer being configured to store in the printer memory the one or more first print jobs received from the client device and to determine whether a first mode of the printer is enabled or disenabled and whether a second mode of the printer is enabled or disenabled,
the server including a server memory, the server being configured to receive the one or more second print jobs from the client device and to store the one or more received second print jobs in the server memory,
wherein the printer is further configured to perform:
receiving login information via the user interface;
receiving a print command via the user interface after authentication based on the received login information is successful;
in response to receiving the print command, displaying a print job list of one or more print jobs on the user interface;
receiving a selection for a print job from the displayed print job list;
and printing the print job selected by the received selection,
wherein, when determining that the first mode is enabled:
in the displaying the printer displays a first list as the print job list, the first list being a list of the one or more first print jobs stored in the printer memory;
and in the printing the printer prints the first print job selected from the first list by the received selection, and
wherein, when determining that the second mode is enabled:
in the displaying the printer displays a second list as the print job list without displaying the first list, the second list being a list of the one or more second print jobs that correspond to a logged-in user for which the authentication based on the received login information is successful;
and in the printing the printer prints the second print job selected from the second list by the received selection, without printing the one or more first print jobs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/191,048Filed 28 Mar 2023 · division
Priority: JP 2020-16473430 Sep 2020
Published: US 2023/0236772 A127 Jul 2023
Granted: 24 Sep 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 3/1203
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
G06F 3/1222
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: increasing security of the print job
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

Family

Application17/467,988Parent of this division · filed 7 Sep 2021
US 2023/0236772 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Jul 2023
US 11,620,090 B2Parent of this division
US 2022/0100435 A1Published application
US 12,099,755 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.