Data reception processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and data reception processing method

A data reception processing method comprising:

• receiving processing target data;
• acquiring, separately for each of acquisition target protocols set in advance, data received by communication employing the acquisition target protocols;
• controlling the received data to be more preferentially received than data received by using the acquisition target protocol corresponding to priority lower than priority associated with the acquisition target protocol used for communication of the data;
• and
• acquiring the separately-acquired data and sequentially outputting the data for data processing.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a data receiving section configured to receive processing target data;
• plural data acquiring sections configured to respectively acquire only data received by communication employing acquisition target protocols separately set in advance for the data acquiring sections;
• a data-acquisition control section configured to control the plural data acquiring sections to cause the data acquiring section corresponding to the acquisition target protocol used for reception of data received by the data receiving section to more preferentially receive the data than data received by using the acquisition target protocol corresponding to priority lower than priority associated with the acquisition target protocol used for the reception of the data;
• a data output section configured to acquire the data from the data acquiring section and sequentially output the data to a processing section configured to process the data;
• and
• an image formation processing section configured to perform image formation processing on the basis of the data acquired from the data output section.