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US 2013/0258384 A1Published application
Server system, print system, and printer
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki KANOH
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Abstract
A communication control unit transmits a request for shortening a polling time interval to a printer after a web UI unit has accepted a print instruction about a data file and before generation of a print file by a print file acquiring unit is completed.
Claims17
A server system comprising:
- a communication control unit programmed to control communication with one or plural printers;
- an instruction accepting unit programmed to accept a print instruction about a data file;
- and
- a print file acquiring unit programmed to generate or acquire a print file, the print file being generated by converting the data file corresponding to the print instruction into data which is interpretable by a certain printer, among the one or plural printers, that is to perform print processing on the data file;
- wherein
- the server system transmits the print file to the certain printer in response to data received from the certain printer;
- the certain printer polls the server system at a certain time interval;
- and
- the communication control unit is programmed to transmit a request for shortening a polling time interval to the certain printer after the instruction accepting unit has accepted the print instruction about the data file.
6 more elements
A printer comprising:
- a communication control unit programmed to control communication with a server system;
- an instruction input unit arranged to accept input of an instruction from a user;
- and
- an image forming unit arranged to print an image corresponding to a print file;
- wherein
- the communication control unit is programmed to poll the server system at a certain time interval;
- and
- when the instruction input unit accepts a start instruction to start operating in a processing mode in which a print file to be printed is acquired from the server system and print processing is executed on the print file, the communication control unit is programmed to make a polling time interval for the server system shorter than before the start instruction is accepted.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.