Image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts and method of controlling image forming jobs of the image forming apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJi-won KIM, Hoe-go Kim
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts includes a plurality of USB interfaces to connect with the respective multiple hosts to receive job request data for image forming jobs requested by the multiple hosts; a driver module to process the job request data received via the respective multiple USB interfaces; a USB data manager to generate job data that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data; and a main controller to control the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs based on the generated job data.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts, the apparatus comprising,
- a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) interfaces to couple with the respective multiple hosts to receive job request data for image forming jobs requested by the multiple hosts;
- a driver module to process the job request data received via the respective multiple USB interfaces;
- a USB data manager to generate job data that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data;
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- a main controller to control the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs based on the generated job data.
A method of controlling image forming jobs in an image forming apparatus, the method comprising,
- receiving job request data for image forming jobs requested by hosts via multiple Universal Serial Bus (USB) interfaces to connect with the respective multiple hosts;
- processing, by a USB driver module, the job request data received via the multiple USB interfaces;
- generating job data that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data;
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- controlling the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs based on the generated job data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.