Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazutaka Matsueda

Koichi Matsumoto

Takehiro Yoshida

Masaya Kondo

Motoaki Yoshino

Toshio Kenmochi

Fumio Shoji

Soichi Yamamuro

Naoji Hayakawa

Hideki Shimizu

Yoshio Yoshiura

Kazuto Yanagisawa

Fumiyuki Takiguchi

Shigeki Ohno

Sadasuke Kurahayashi

Toru Maeda

Koichiro Wanda

Hiroshi Nobuta

Masaru Saruwatari

Kazuhiko Yoshioka

Naoyuki Okata

Even when an error has occurred in a device that is executing an activity, the workflow is continued as much as possible. When an error has occurred in an activity that is in progress in a device X, a server notifies the device X of an alternative device. The name of the alternative device (device Y) is displayed on the device X. The operator can send a job catalog request from the device Y to the server and select an aborted job from the provided job catalog. The server is notified of the selected job. When password authentication has succeeded, the device Y is permitted to continue the activity.

Workflow management server and method

Secrecy of printed matter is raised and charges for a storing area are more accurately charged. According to the invention, a printing apparatus is instructed so as to store print data corresponding to a print request into one of a plurality of storing areas. The print data is transmitted to the printing apparatus. The user is notified of authentication information corresponding to the print data stored in one of the plurality of storing areas.

Print job management using memory boxes

A form display method which enhances convenience for an operator who corrects a result of form recognition on electronic image data obtained from documents of unknown type, so that the operator can properly perform correction. Electronic images are acquired, and form types of the electronic images are recognized. It is determined whether the recognized electronic images are corresponding ones of forms registered in advance or unrecognizable forms. A method of displaying the unrecognizable forms is set in advance. The determined forms are displayed in accordance with the set display method.

Form display method, apparatus, and storage medium storing a program for an information processing apparatus, that determine form types corresponding to obtained electric image data

In order to solve one or more problems encountered in the grouping of print jobs spanning a plurality of servers, a control apparatus within a print processing system includes: a designation unit for designating a plurality of print jobs; a generation unit for acquiring the plurality of print jobs from an applicable server, and generating a combined print job that includes the plurality of print jobs; and a setting unit which, when an error has occurred in the acquisition of the plurality of print jobs, is for setting whether to exercise control so as to execute processing of all of the plurality of print jobs after recovery from the error is achieved, or so as to execute processing of print jobs with the exception of the print job in which the error occurred.

Print processing system, control apparatus and control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium

According to the claimed invention, an information processing apparatus generating a workflow that defines a processing order of a plurality of processes, and having a storage that stores workflow information used to define processing in the respective processes included in the workflow, comprises a reception unit adapted to receive a processing status of a processing step of interest of the plurality of processes defined in the workflow from a device executing the processing step of interest, a checking unit adapted to check if the processing status of the processing step of interest matches a workflow generation condition, and a first generation unit adapted to generate, when the checking unit determines that the processing status of the processing step of interest matches the workflow generation condition, a workflow based on the workflow information stored in the storage unit and the processing status of the processing step of interest.

Information processing apparatus and workflow generation method

Job processing apparatus of the present invention comprises a reception unit adapted to receive a job ticket; a recognition unit adapted to recognize a processing content of a processing step of interest defined in the job ticket; a detection unit adapted to detect a processing status of the process; an identification adapted to identify a processed part of a print job and an unprocessed part of the print job based on the processing status, when the processing status satisfies a job ticket dividing condition; a job ticket generation unit adapted to generate a first job ticket that describes a processing parameter of the processed part for a next step, in order to process the processed part in the next step; and a delivery unit adapted to deliver the first job ticket to a device which executes processing in the next step.

Information processing apparatus and job processing apparatus

A data processing apparatus, such as a facsimile machine, includes image processing units that process image data in accordance with a processing mode. The data processing apparatus receives data packets from another apparatus on a network. Each data packet includes image data and information for specifying the processing mode, which is detected by the data processing apparatus. The image data is provided to the image processing units in accordance with the processing mode detected by the image processing apparatus.

Data processing apparatus and method of controlling an image processing mode

Method and apparatus for authentication in secure printing

A requested print job is divided and distributed to a plurality of printers to efficiently and correctly print data of the print job, with only a simple user instruction of distributed printing. Under the control of a distribution controller, data of a print job is divided into data corresponding to the number of printers from which the data is output, and spooled in specific file formats in accordance with a combination of the printers. In accordance with the spooled data, divided print data is generated and distributed to the printers via a network under the control of a transmission controller.

Information processing apparatus, distributed printing method, and storage medium

A data processing apparatus, such as a facsimile apparatus, connected to a LAN, that transmits and/or receives data to or from another apparatus, wherein even if an error or failure such as a printer error or an insufficiency of available space in image memory for storing image data occurs, the required process is continued by transferring the image data from the data processing apparatus to another apparatus also connected to the LAN. The data processing apparatus has the capability of detecting an error in the LAN when the apparatus is connected to the LAN. This allows the data processing apparatus to operate correctly without problems that might otherwise occur due to the error in the LAN. The data processing apparatus also has the capability of operating in an adequate process mode corresponding to a process command contained in a received packet. This allows effective use of the data processing apparatus.

Data processing apparatus and method that notifies a user when data transferred

A specific memory box is temporarily formed every job which is requested by a client apparatus and the user of the client apparatus uniquely processes the job information at a high speed. In response to a print request from a client apparatus which can be connected to a network, a printer apparatus is instructed to form a memory box for managing the job information in a memory apparatus of the printer apparatus. When the job information whose printing has been requested by the client apparatus is inputted and registered into the formed memory box, the client apparatus is notified of printer management information of the job information inputted and registered in the memory box.

Server apparatus, job managing method, computer-readable memory medium, and program

A server printing system registers the status of a print job issued to the printer in a management table of the printer. When there is a request from an application to cancel the print job, and the job to be cancelled is not registered in the job queue, the job is set to be deleted later from the server printing system management table. When the server printing system receives notification of a job generation event from the printer, the server printing system ascertains whether or not the job included in the event is set to be cancelled and, if so, cancels the print job.

Method and apparatus for print job cancellation within a distributed printing system

Disclosed is a system that can precisely obtain process results, such as a paper ejection end, from a printer that receives and processes a print job, while reducing the load imposed on a network and the process loads imposed on the printer and a data processing apparatus. According to the present invention, from among all log information stored in the printer, a predetermined number of log information sets, beginning with the latest log, are obtained, and based on the obtained log information, the process result for the job is determined.

Printing system, data processing system and method for confirming job process result

A print server system where a user can select a spooler of a server or that of a client from which a stored image is to be print-outputted. Clientsandrespectively have a first storage in which an image for which the client requested printing is stored. All the images for which printing have been requested from the clients are stored in a second storage in a serverwhich manages a printerUpon actual print operation, a user designates one of the storages from which the stored image is to be transmitted to the printer, in accordance with a displayed screen image.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kazutaka Matsueda