# US 2025/0147708 A1 · Cloud print server, cloud print system, cloud printing setting method, and storage medium

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- Number: US 2025/0147708 A1
- Document ID: US20250147708A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/928,426
- Filed: 2024-10-28
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Earliest claimed: 2023-11-08
- Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: RITSUTO SAKO
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250147708A1

## CPC

- G06F 3/1268: {Job submission, e.g. submitting print job order or request not the print data itself}
- 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 3/1287: {via internet}
- G06F 3/1288: {in client-server-printer device configuration}
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A cloud print server manages a printing apparatus and device attributes of the printing apparatus, a device type included in the device attribute having information indicating a type of a printing apparatus. The cloud print server displays a list of printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a specific type of printing apparatus or hanging a display mode of the specific type of printing apparatus and accept selection of the printing apparatus list displayed by an administrator. The cloud print server associates the selected printing apparatus to a virtual printer, stores a print job submit to the virtual printer in one or more memory in association with the virtual printer and transmits the print job stored in association with the virtual printer to the associated printing apparatus according to an instruction from a user.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A cloud print server comprising:
one or more memory devices that store a set of instructions; and
one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to:
manage a printing apparatus and device attributes of the printing apparatus, a device type included in the device attribute having information indicating a type of a printing apparatus;
display a list of printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a specific type of printing apparatus or changing a display mode of the specific type of printing apparatus, and accept selection of the printing apparatus list displayed by an administrator;
associate the selected printing apparatus to a virtual printer;
store a print job submit to the virtual printer in the one or more memory in association with the virtual printer; and
transmit the print job stored in association with the virtual printer to the associated printing apparatus according to an instruction from a user.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The cloud print server according to claim 1, wherein
the list display displays a list of information specifying the managed printing apparatus and a type of printing apparatus of the device type.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The cloud print server according to claim 1, wherein
the device type includes information indicating whether the printing apparatus is a physical printing apparatus or a virtual printer, and
the list display list displays the printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a printing apparatus that is a virtual printer or changing a display mode of a printing apparatus that is a virtual printer.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The cloud print server according to claim 1, wherein
the device type includes information indicating whether the printing apparatus is a physical printer or a print connector, and
the list display list displays the printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a printing apparatus that is a print connector or changing a display mode of a printing apparatus that is a printer connector.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The cloud print server according to claim 1, wherein
the device type includes information on presence or absence of a pull printing function, and
the list display list displays the printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a printing apparatus that does not have a pull printing function or changing a display mode of a printing apparatus that does not have a pull printing function.

### Claim 6

A cloud print system comprising a printing apparatus and a cloud server,
the cloud server including:
one or more first memory devices that store a set of instructions; and
one or more first processors that execute the set of instructions to:
manage a printing apparatus and device attributes of the printing apparatus, a device type included in the device attribute having information indicating a type of a printing apparatus,
display a list of printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a specific type of printing apparatus or changing a display mode of the specific type of printing apparatus, and accept selection of the list displayed printing apparatuses by an administrator,
associate the selected printing apparatus to a virtual printer,
store a print job submit to the virtual printer in the one or more memory in association with the virtual printer, and
transmit the print job stored in association with the virtual printer to the associated printing apparatus according to an instruction from a user; and
the printing apparatus including:
one or more second memory devices that store a set of instructions; and
one or more second processors that execute the set of instructions to:
perform the instruction from the user, receive the print job, and execute printing.

### Claim 7

A cloud printing setting method in a cloud print server configured to manage a printing apparatus and device attributes of the printing apparatus, a device type included in the device attribute having information indicating a type of a printing apparatus;
the method comprising:
displaying a list of printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a specific type of printing apparatus or changing a display mode of the specific type of printing apparatus, and accepting selection of the printing apparatus list displayed by an administrator,
associating the selected printing apparatus to a virtual printer;
storing a print job submit to the virtual printer in association with the virtual printer; and
transmitting the print job stored in association with the virtual printer to the associated printing apparatus according to an instruction from a user.

### Claim 8

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute each step of a method for controlling a cloud print server which manages a printing apparatus and device attributes of the printing apparatus, a device type included in the device attribute having information indicating a type of a printing apparatus;
the method including:
displaying a list of printing apparatuses managed by the cloud print server while not displaying a specific type of printing apparatus or changing a display mode of the specific type of printing apparatus, and accepting selection of the printing apparatus list displayed by an administrator,
associating the selected printing apparatus to a virtual printer;
storing a print job submit to the virtual printer in association with the virtual printer; and
transmitting the print job stored in association with the virtual printer to the associated printing apparatus according to an instruction from a user.