US 2015/0092230 A1Published application

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

InventorShuji Murata

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Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a notification portion, a print request management table storage portion, and a response portion. When a job is submitted from, among terminal devices of the multiple users, a terminal device of one user, notification portion displays a first message associated with the job on another terminal device of another user. When a print request is transmitted from the other terminal device of the other user in response to the first message, print request management table storage portion registers and stores print request in a predetermined print request management table. When print request is registered in print request management table, response portion displays, on the terminal device of the one user, a second message requesting the one user who submitted the job to respond whether or not the one user intends to print a print object for the other user in response to print request.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a communication portion configured to enable transmission and reception of data among respective terminal devices of multiple users;
a notification portion configured to, when a job is submitted from a terminal device of one user among the terminal devices of the multiple users, display a first message associated with the job on another terminal device of another user among the terminal devices of the multiple users;
a print request management table storage portion configured to, when a print request is transmitted from the another terminal device of the another user in response to the first message, register and store the print request in a predetermined print request management table;
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a response portion configured to, when the print request is registered in the print request management table, display, on the terminal device of the one user, a second message requesting the one user who submitted the job to provide a response whether or not the one user intends to print a print object for the another user in response to the print request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/497,234Filed 25 Sep 2014
Priority: JP 2013-20383330 Sep 2013
Published: 2 Apr 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 1/00204
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…
G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1259
Print job management: print job monitoring, e.g. job status
G06F 3/1286
Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server: via local network