Management server and method for controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiko Hosotsubo
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Abstract
There is provided a management server in which a print log analysis unit of a device management application analyzes a job log collected from an MFP device to detect a pair of reprint related jobs, determines whether a reprinted job is useless or useful for the detected pair of jobs, and a print log analysis result report generation unit generates an analysis result report based on a determination result to outputs the generated report. If a detection result includes a pair of jobs, in which one job has been printed based on default print settings and the other job has been reprinted based on changed print settings, it is determined that the job printed based on the default print settings is a useless job.
Claims11
A management server, comprising:
- a detection unit configured to detect a pair of reprint related jobs by analyzing a job log collected from a printing apparatus;
- a determination unit configured to determine whether a reprinted job is useless or useful for the pair of jobs detected by the detection unit;
- and
- an output unit configured to output a determination result obtained by the determination unit,
- wherein if a detection result obtained by the detection unit includes a pair of jobs, in which one job has been printed based on default print settings and the other job has been reprinted based on changed print settings, the determination unit determines the job printed based on the default print settings as a useless job.
A method for controlling a management server that collects a job log from a printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- detecting a pair of reprint related jobs by analyzing the collected job log;
- determining whether a reprinted job is useless or useful for the detected pair of jobs;
- and
- outputting a determination result,
- wherein if a detection result includes a pair of jobs, in which one job has been printed based on default print settings and the other job has been reprinted based on changed print settings, the job printed based on the default print setting is determined as a useless job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.