Image forming system and managing method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorEun-kyung Yun
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Abstract
A managing method of an image forming system having at least one image forming apparatus including a first image forming apparatus, and a plurality of servers including a first server and managing the first image forming apparatus, the managing method includes determining whether the first server operates normally, requesting the plurality of server except the first server to manage the first image forming apparatus, if the first server operates abnormally, and allowing a second server among the plurality of servers except the first server to manage the first image forming apparatus in response to the request.
Claims13
A managing method of an image forming system comprising at least one image forming apparatus including a first image forming apparatus, and a plurality of servers including a first server and managing the first image forming apparatus, the managing method comprising:
- determining whether the first server operates normally;
- requesting the plurality of servers excluding the first server, to manage the first image forming apparatus, if the first server operates abnormally;
- allowing a second server among the plurality of servers, excluding the first server, to manage the first image forming apparatus in response to the request;
- and
- transferring a job record collected by the second server to the first server when the first server is recovered, the transferring including:
- informing the plurality of servers including the second server of recovery of the first server;
- the second server responding to the first server;
- the first server requesting the job record from the second server;
- and
- the second server transferring the job record.
A managing method of an image forming system comprising at least one image forming apparatus including a first image forming apparatus, and a plurality of servers including a first server used as a main server to manage the first image forming apparatus and a second server used as an auxiliary server to manage the first image forming apparatus, the managing method comprising:
- determining whether the first server operates normally;
- requesting the second server to manage the first image forming apparatus, if the first server operates abnormally;
- the second server managing the first image forming apparatus in response to the request;
- and
- transferring a job record collected by the second server to the first server when the first server is recovered, the transferring including informing the first image forming apparatus of recovery of the first server after the first server receives the job record from the second server.
An image forming system, comprising:
- at least one image forming apparatus including a first image forming apparatus;
- and
- a plurality of servers including a first server of managing the first image forming apparatus,
- at least one of the first image forming apparatus and the first server determining whether the first server operates normally, and requesting the plurality of servers excluding the first server to manage the first image forming apparatus if the first server operates abnormally, and
- a second server, among the plurality of servers excluding the first server, managing the first image forming apparatus in response to the request, the second server to inform the first image forming apparatus of recovery of the first server after the first server receives a job record from the second server.
An image forming system, comprising:
- at least one image forming apparatus including a first image forming apparatus;
- and
- a plurality of servers including a first server used as a main server to manage the first image forming apparatus and a second server used as an auxiliary server to manage the first image forming apparatus,
- at least one of the first image forming apparatus and the first server determining whether the first server operates normally, and requesting the second server to manage the first image forming apparatus, if the first server operates abnormally, and
- the second server managing the first image forming apparatus instead of the first server, the second server to inform the first image forming apparatus of recovery of the first server after the first server receives a job record from the second server.
An image forming system, comprising:
- a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- and
- a plurality of servers coupled to the plurality of image forming apparatuses through a network, and to selectively manage the image forming apparatuses,
- wherein a server is subsequently selected to manage a respective image forming apparatus when an operation of a server previously assigned to the respective image forming apparatus is determined to be abnormal, and the subsequently selected server informs the image forming apparatus of recovery of the previously assigned server after the previously assigned server receives a job record from the subsequently selected server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.