Command information management apparatus, print system and computer readable medium

A command information management apparatus comprising:

• a command information acquiring section that acquires plural pieces of command information, each piece of command information including (i) descriptions of a print processing and (ii) print location information which indicates location of a printer that executes the print processing, of plural printers disposed in respective areas;
• a retrieval information acquiring section that acquires, when receiving a request for list information from a printer of the printers, retrieval information including request location information which indicates location of the requesting printer;
• a generating section that generates the list information including a first group,
• wherein the first group includes at least one of the pieces of command information,
• each piece of command information contained in the first group satisfies a condition that the location indicated by the request location information contained in the retrieval information acquired by the retrieval information acquiring section, belongs to the same area as the location indicated by the print location information contained in each piece of command information acquired by the command information acquiring section;
• and
• a screen information providing section that provides, to the printer requesting the list information, screen information including the list information generated by the generating section,
• wherein the generating section, when each piece of command information contains start time of the print processing, generates the list information in which each of at least one of the pieces of the command information satisfying a time condition is given a higher priority, and
• the time condition is that the difference between (i) time at which the retrieval information was acquired in the acquiring the pieces of command information process and (ii) the start time is within a predetermined time.

A print system comprising:

• plural printers that are disposed in respective areas;
• a command information acquiring section that acquires plural pieces of command information, each piece of command information including (i) descriptions of a print processing and (ii) print location information which indicates location of a printer of printers, that executes the print processing;
• a retrieval information acquiring section that acquires, when receiving a request for list information from a printer of the printers, retrieval information including request location information which indicates location of the requesting printer;
• a generating section that generates the list information including a group,
• wherein the group includes at least one of the pieces of command information,
• each piece of command information contained in the group satisfies a condition that the location indicated by the request location information contained in the retrieval information acquired by the retrieval information acquiring section, belongs to the same area as the location indicated by the print location information contained in each piece of command information acquired by the command information acquiring section;
• and
• a screen information providing section that provides, to the printer requesting the list information, screen information including the list information generated by the generating section,
• wherein when each piece of command information contains start time of the print processing, each of at least one of the pieces of the command information satisfying a time condition are given a higher priority in the list information, and
• the time condition is that the difference between (i) time at which the retrieval information was acquired in the acquiring the pieces of command information process and (ii) the start time is within a predetermined time.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing command information, the process comprising;

• acquiring plural pieces of the command information, each piece of command information including
• (i) descriptions of a print processing and (ii) print location information which indicates location of a printer that executes the print processing, of plural printers disposed in respective areas, or
• the descriptions of the print processing without the print location information;
• acquiring, when receiving a request for list information from a requesting printer of the printers, retrieval information including request location information which indicates location of the requesting printer;
• generating the list information including a first group or a second group,
• wherein the first group includes at least one of the pieces of command information,
• each piece of command information contained in the first group satisfies a condition that the location of the requesting printer indicated by the request location information contained in the retrieval information acquired in the acquiring the retrieval information process, belongs to the same area as the location indicated by the print location information contained in each piece of command information acquired in the acquiring the pieces of command information process,
• the second group includes all pieces of the command information;
• and
• providing, to the printer requesting the list information, screen information including the list information generated in the generating process,
• wherein the generating section, when each piece of command information contains start time of the print processing, generates the list information in which each of at least one of the pieces of the command information satisfying a time condition is given a higher priority, and
• the time condition is that the difference between (i) time at which the retrieval information was acquired in the acquiring the pieces of command information process and (ii) the start time is within a predetermined time.