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US 8,711,414 B2Granted
Print processing method, print relay server, control method, and storage medium to reserve print data
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAtsushi Kashioka
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Abstract
When information about an image forming apparatus is registered in a print service environment, to perform reservation printing, a relay virtual printer determines whether a print job acquired from a print service is reserved, and reserves a print job as a reservation print target after a user selects a bookmarklet and issues an instruction to perform the reservation printing.
Claims11
A print relay server comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive, from a client apparatus configured to display a screen for editing a content using a web application service of a web application server, an instruction to reserve print data corresponding to the content edited on the screen;
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- a relay virtual printer configured to receive, when an image forming apparatus prints print data obtained by converting the content, the print data from a print server that has converted the content into the print data and store the received print data as print data to be reserved in a storage unit of the print server when the reception unit receives the instruction to reserve the print data, and configured to receive the print data from the print server and send the received print data to the image forming apparatus without reserving the print data, or to receive information about a storage location of the print data stored in the storage unit of the print server from the print server and send the received information about the storage location to the image forming apparatus when the reception unit does not receive the instruction to reserve the print data.
A method for controlling a print relay server, the method comprising:
- receiving, via a reception unit, from a client apparatus configured to display a screen for editing a content using a web application service of a web application server, an instruction to reserve print data corresponding to the content edited on the screen;
- receiving, via a relay virtual printer, when an image forming apparatus prints print data obtained by converting the content, the print data from a print server that has converted the content into the print data and storing the received print data as a reservation print target in a storage unit when the reception unit receives the instruction to reserve the print data, and receiving the print data from the print server and sending the received print data to the image forming apparatus without reserving the print data, or receiving information about a storage location of the print data stored in the storage unit of the print server from the print server and sending the received information about the storage location to the image forming apparatus when the reception unit does not receive the instruction to reserve the print data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.