Server system, method for printing system, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasanori Aritomi
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Abstract
The server system changes a state of a printer object to a shared state to cause a second user different from a first user to be able to use the printer object upon receipt of a sharing instruction with respect to the printer registered on a print service by the first user, and deletes at least printer authentication information within the printer object in a shared state upon receipt of a deletion instruction for deleting the printer registered on the print service.
Claims10
A server system including a print service for causing a printer to print data on a network, the server system comprising:
- an object generation unit configured to, upon receipt of a registration instruction for registering the printer on the print service, generate a printer object used to cause the printer to cooperate with the print service;
- a state change unit configured to, upon receipt of a sharing instruction with respect to the printer registered by a first user, change a state of the printer object to a shared state in order to cause a second user different from the first user to be able to use the printer object;
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- a deletion unit configured to, upon receipt of a deletion instruction for deleting a printer registered on the print service, delete at least printer authentication information within the printer object in a shared state.
A method for a printing system including a server system having a print service for causing a printer to print data on a network, a client computer, and a printer, the method comprising:
- transmitting information relating to the printer to the print service;
- generating a printer object used to cause the printer to cooperate with the print service upon receipt of a registration instruction for registering the printer on the print service and upon receipt of the information relating to the printer;
- transmitting a sharing instruction to the print service through the client computer upon receipt of the sharing instruction from a first user;
- changing a state of the printer object to a shared state in order to cause a second user different from the first user to be able to use the printer object upon receipt of the shared instruction with respect to the printer registered by the first user;
- transmitting a deletion instruction to the print service through the client computer upon receipt of the deletion instruction from a user;
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- deleting at least printer authentication information within the printer object in a shared state upon receipt of a deletion instruction for deleting a printer registered on the print service.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program executed by a server including a print service for causing a printer to print data on a network, the program comprising:
- generating a printer object used to cause a printer to cooperate with the print service upon receipt of a registration instruction for registering the printer on the print service;
- changing a state of the printer object to a shared state in order to cause a second user different from a first user to be able to use the printer object upon receipt of a shared instruction with respect to the printer registered by the first user;
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- deleting at least printer authentication information within the printer object in a shared state upon receipt of a deletion instruction for deleting a printer registered on the print service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.