# US 2022/0035581 A1 · Printing system, server system, and printing apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2022/0035581 A1 - Document ID: US20220035581A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/387,314 - Filed: 2021-07-28 - Published: 2022-02-03 - Earliest claimed: 2020-07-29 - Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Keiji Kawasaki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220035581A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/1231: {Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification} - G06F 3/1238: {Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs} - G06F 3/1203: {Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management} - G06F 3/1204: {resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data} - G06F 3/1222: {Increasing security of the print job} - G06F 3/1224: {Client or server resources management} - G06F 3/1288: {in client-server-printer device configuration} - H04L 63/083: {using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226)} - H04L 63/105: {Multiple levels of security} - H04L 63/20: {for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies H04L63/0227)} - G06F 3/1285: {Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server} - Y02P 90/30: Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS ## Abstract A server system includes a setting unit configured to, based on an input from a user having first authority, set information indicating whether to permit registration of a printing apparatus based on a registration request from a user having second authority being more limited than the first authority, and a registration processing unit configured to, in a case where a registration request for registering a printing apparatus is received, perform processing for registering the printing apparatus based on the registration request, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority and where the setting unit sets information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, the registration processing unit performs the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A printing system comprising a printing apparatus and a server system, wherein the server system comprises: a setting unit configured to, based on an input from a user having first authority, set information indicating whether to permit registration of a printing apparatus based on a registration request from a user having second authority being more limited than the first authority; and a registration processing unit configured to, in a case where a registration request for registering a printing apparatus is received, perform processing for registering the printing apparatus based on the registration request, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority and where the setting unit sets information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, the registration processing unit performs the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority, and wherein, by execution of the registration, the printing apparatus becomes capable of receiving a print job based on a print instruction from the user having the second authority via the server system. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority being more limited than the first authority and where the setting unit does not set the information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, the registration processing unit does not perform the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit further sets permitted user information indicating a user permitted to perform the registration of a printing apparatus among users having the second authority based on an input from the user having the first authority, and wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority being more limited than the first authority, where the setting unit sets the information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, and where information indicating the user who has issued the registration request is included in the permitted user information, the registration processing unit performs the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user who has issued the registration request. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The printing system according to claim 3, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority being more limited than the first authority, where the setting unit sets the information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, and where the information indicating the user who has issued the registration request is not included in the permitted user information, the registration processing unit does not perform the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user who has issued the registration request. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein, before performing the registration based on a registration request from the user having the second authority, the registration processing unit performs processing for acquiring approval from the user having the first authority. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein, by execution of the registration, the printing apparatus becomes capable of receiving a print job based on a print instruction from the user having the second authority who has issued the registration request. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing apparatus is a virtual printer to be registered to an application stored in an information processing apparatus. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing apparatus is capable of performing printing based on the print job. ### Claim 9 A server system comprising: a setting unit configured to, based on an input from a user having first authority, set information indicating whether to permit registration of a printing apparatus based on a registration request from a user having second authority being more limited than the first authority; and a registration processing unit configured to, in a case where a registration request for registering a printing apparatus is received, perform processing for registering the printing apparatus based on the registration request, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority and where the setting unit sets information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, the registration processing unit performs the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority. ### Claim 10 A printing apparatus configured to communicate with a server system, wherein the server system comprises: a setting unit configured to, based on an input from a user having first authority, set information indicating whether to permit registration of a printing apparatus based on a registration request from a user having second authority being more limited than the first authority; and a registration processing unit configured to, in a case where a registration request for registering a printing apparatus is received, perform processing for registering the printing apparatus based on the registration request, wherein, in a case where the user who has issued the registration request has the second authority and where the setting unit sets information indicating that the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority is permitted, the registration processing unit performs the registration of a printing apparatus based on the registration request from the user having the second authority, and wherein, when the printing apparatus transmits the registration request for registering a printing apparatus, and the server system performs the registration based on the transmitted registration request, the printing apparatus becomes capable of receiving a print instruction from the user having the second authority via the server system. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The printing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the printing apparatus instructs the server system to register the user who has issued the registration request to the server system.