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US 2010/0060922 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus and controlling method for the same
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahide Teranoshita
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Abstract
A MFP stores document type information and a contact destination of an approver in association with each other. When the MFP receives a job execution request from a communication apparatus, the MFP transmits an approval request for output of an electronic document to the contact destination. When the output of the electronic document is approved, the MFP executes any one job among printing, mail transfer, web publication, and facsimile transmission.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job managing unit configured to manage queues of a job of an image forming unit for printing an image on a medium, a job for transmitting data including image data by mail, a job for distributing the image data through the Internet, and a job for transmitting the image data using a facsimile apparatus;
- an interface unit configured to receive, from a communication apparatus connected to a network, a job execution request including an electronic document that should be approved and a job type of any one of the jobs executed on the electronic document;
- a storing unit configured to store document type information for identifying a type of the electronic document received by the interface unit and a contact destination of an approver for the electronic document in association with each other;
- an approval managing unit configured to transmit an approval request for output of the electronic document to the contact destination stored by the storing unit and receive a determination result concerning possibility of output responding to the approval request;
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- a control unit configured to cause, when the determination result received by the approval managing unit is affirmative, the job managing unit to execute the job of the job execution request received by the interface unit.
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A controlling method for an image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storing unit setting and storing document type information for identifying a type of an electronic document that should be approved and a contact destination of an approver of the electronic document in association with each other;
- an interface unit, which transmits and receives information to and from a communication apparatus connected to a network, receiving a job execution request including the electronic document and a job type of any one of jobs executed on the electronic document from the communication apparatus;
- an approval managing unit transmitting an approval request for output of the electronic document to the contact destination stored by the storing unit and receiving a determination result concerning possibility of output responding to the approval request;
- a control unit notifying, when the determination result received by the approval managing unit is affirmative, a job managing unit, which manages a job queue, of the job type of the job execution request received by the interface unit;
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- the job managing unit executing the job of the notified job type among a job of an image forming unit for printing an image on a medium, a job for transmitting data including image data by mail, a job for distributing the image data through the Internet, and a job for transmitting the image data using a facsimile apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.