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US 8,264,724 B2Granted
Job history information auditing system, image forming apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoriko Matsuzawa
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Abstract
A job history information auditing system includes an image forming apparatus which generates job history information including a log and image data or a link log upon execution of a job, and a data server which saves the job history information in a searchable state.
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A job history information auditing system including an image forming apparatus which generates job history information including a log and image data or a link log upon execution of a job, and a data server which saves the job history information in a searchable state,
- said image forming apparatus comprises:
- a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire an operating condition setting associated with execution of a job and generation of a log;
- a job determination unit configured to determine whether or not the executed job is an input job that has the log of the input job and image data related to the log referred to as a reference destination of the link log included in job history information of the output job which is executed after the input job has been executed, according to a type of the executed job;
- an appending unit configured to append, to the image data related to the log, information indicating whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- a generation determination unit configured to determine based on the information appended by said appending unit whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- an image data generation unit configured to generate the image data related to the log of the executed job as job history information image data;
- a log generation unit configured to generate a log or a link log of the executed job;
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- a sending unit configured to send the job history information including the log and the job history information image data related to the log or the link log to said data server according to the operating condition setting,
- the link log includes information as a reference destination of the image data when the job uses the job history information image data saved in said data server, and
- said image data generation unit generates the job history information image data when said job determination unit determines that the executed job is the input job, and said generation determination unit determines that the job history information image data has not been generated yet.
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An image forming apparatus, which generates job history information including a log and image data or a link log upon execution of a job, and is connected to a data server, which saves the job history information in a searchable state, comprising:
- a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire an operating condition setting associated with execution of a job and generation of a log;
- a job determination unit configured to determine whether or not the executed job is an input job that has the log of the input job and image data related to the log referred to as a reference destination of the link log included in job history information of the output job which is executed after the input job has been executed, according to a type of the executed job;
- an appending unit configured to append, to the image data related to the log, information indicating whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- a generation determination unit configured to determine based on the information appended by said appending unit whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- an image data generation unit configured to generate the image data related to the log of the executed job as job history information image data;
- a log generation unit configured to generate a log or a link log of the executed job;
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- a sending unit configured to send the job history information including the log and the job history information image data related to the log or the link log to the data server according to the operating condition setting,
- wherein the link log includes information as a reference destination of the image data when the job uses the job history information image data saved in the data server, and
- said image data generation unit generates the job history information image data when said job determination unit determines that the executed job is the input job, and said generation determination unit determines that the job history information image data has not been generated yet.
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A control method of a job history information auditing system including an image forming apparatus which generates job history information including a log and image data or a link log upon execution of a job, and a data server which saves the job history information in a searchable state, the method comprising:
- controlling the image forming apparatus to execute
- a setting information acquisition step of controlling a setting information acquisition unit of the image forming apparatus to acquire an operating condition setting associated with execution of a job and generation of a log,
- a job determination step of controlling a job determination unit of the image forming apparatus to determine whether or not the executed job is an input job that has the log of the input job and image data related to the log referred to as a reference destination of the link log included in job history information of the output job which is executed after the input job has been executed, according to a type of the executed job,
- an appending step of controlling an appending unit of the image forming apparatus to append, to the image data related to the log, information indicating whether or not job history information image data has already been generated,
- a generation determination step of controlling a generation determination unit of the image forming apparatus to determine based on the information appended in the appending step whether or not job history information image data has already been generated,
- an image data generation step of controlling an image data generation unit of the image forming apparatus to generate the image data related to the log of the executed job as job history information image data,
- a log generation step of controlling a log generation unit of the image forming apparatus to generate a log or a link log of the executed job, and
- a sending step of controlling a sending unit of the image forming apparatus to send the job history information including the log and the job history information image data related to the log or the link log to the data server according to the operating condition setting,
- wherein the link log includes information as a reference destination of the image data when the job uses the job history information image data saved in the data server, and
- in the image data generation step, the job history information image data is generated when it is determined in the job determination step that the executed job is the input job, and it is determined in the generation determination step that the job history information image data has not been generated yet.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program making an image forming apparatus function as:
- a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire an operating condition setting;
- a job determination unit configured to determine whether or not an executed job is an input job that has the log of the input job and image data related to the log referred to as a reference destination of a link log included in job history information of the output job which is executed after the input job has been executed, according to a type of the executed job;
- an appending unit configured to append, to the image data related to the log, information indicating whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- a generation determination unit configured to determine based on the information appended by said appending unit whether or not job history information image data has already been generated;
- an image data generation unit configured to generate the image data related to the log of the executed job as job history information image data;
- a log generation unit configured to generate a log or a link log of the executed job;
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- a sending unit configured to send the job history information including the log and the job history information image data related to the log or the link log to a data server according to the operating condition setting,
- wherein the link log includes information as a reference destination of the image data when the job uses the job history information image data saved in the data server, and
- said image data generation unit generates the job history information image data when said job determination unit determines that the executed job is the input job, and said generation determination unit determines that the job history information image data has not been generated yet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.