Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100165376 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing system includes an order management server configured to receive printing orders placed from a plurality of order placement location apparatuses via a network and to distribute the received printing orders to the plurality of printing location apparatuses via the network. Each printing location apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a printing order estimated time. The order management server includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of printing orders placed from the order placement location apparatuses, an updating unit configured to update printing order estimated time information from each printing location apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a printing location apparatus or apparatuses to which to distribute the plurality of printing orders according to a content of each printing order and the printing order estimated time information, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the printing orders to the printing location apparatus or apparatuses determined by the determination unit. | 07-01-2010 |
20100202014 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing system which is capable of reducing the possibility of the operation of a printing apparatus being stopped due to an error or a paper jam. The printing system includes a plurality of printing apparatuses and an information management server for managing the printing apparatuses. A printing apparatus stores processing result information on print data received from a host PC, and sends the processing result information to the information management server. The information management server manages the processing result information, and determines information for determining an alternate printing apparatus based on the processing result information, in response to an inquiry from the printing apparatus. Then, the information management server sends the information for determining an alternate printing apparatus to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus sends the print data to the alternate printing apparatus, based on the information sent from the information management server. | 08-12-2010 |
20110010722 | MEMORY SWAP MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A memory swap management method that can preferentially place in a primary storage device a process that has a high possibility of being executed next, thereby shortening the time to start executing the next process. A planned execution sequence of jobs is stored when there are a plurality of jobs waiting to be executed. A process as a swap-out candidate and a process as a swap-in candidate are determined based on the execution sequence and types of processes stored in the primary storage device. According to the determination, the process as the swap-out candidate is swapped out from the primary storage device to a secondary storage device, and the process as the swap-in candidate is swapped in from the secondary storage device into an area of the primary storage device freed as a result of the swap-out. | 01-13-2011 |
20120154857 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A printing control method includes obtaining, from a control unit controlling printing of print data, identification information for identifying an image forming apparatus connected to the control unit and model information indicating a model of the image forming apparatus, storing the identification information and the model information associated with control unit identification information for identifying the control unit into a storage device, receiving the print data and the identification information from an interface unit for transmitting the print data and the identification information of the image forming apparatus in response to a request from an application unit, and reading out, from the storage device, the received control unit identification information in association with the identification information, and determining the control unit identified by the control unit identification information as a control unit to be specified to control printing of the print data. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162705 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In a print control apparatus which causes a print apparatus to print via a hot folder, it is monitored whether a file is submitted to the hot folder. Upon submitting the file, it is identified whether the submitted file is a reference information file indicating an external content file, and, upon identifying the reference information file, it is determined whether an acquisition process of acquiring the external content file indicated by the reference information file is to be executed by the print control apparatus or the print apparatus. Upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print control apparatus, print data is generated based on the acquired external content file, and, upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print apparatus, print data including the reference information file indicating the external content file is generated. | 06-28-2012 |
20120182580 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A first information processing apparatus inputs job data and a corresponding file associated with the job data to a hot folder of a second information processing apparatus. When the second information processing apparatus detects the corresponding file input to the hot folder, it determines whether the job data has been copied in the hot folder. If it is determined that the job data has been copied in the hot folder, the job data is processed. | 07-19-2012 |
20130166717 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A distribution device receives a registration request of setting information relating to distribution of an event occurring in a print device from a client, registers the setting information, acquires print device information including event information relating to an event occurred in the print device from the print device, determines event information which is a distribution target based on the event information included in the acquired print device information and the registered setting information, distributes the determined event information to the client, and confirms the reception of the event information by the client device to which the event information is to be distributed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130286432 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: a unit which holds information of a plurality of hot folders; a unit which holds a condition for ranking the plurality of hot folders; a unit which generates a list of the plurality of hot folders ranked according to information of the plurality of hot folders, the condition, and information of print data input to a first hot folder of the plurality of hot folders, and to present the list; a unit which receives selection of a second hot folder as a movement destination of the print data input to the first hot folder from the plurality of hot folders indicated in the list; and a unit which moves the print data input to the first hot folder to the second hot folder. | 10-31-2013 |