Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiyoshi Katano

Koji Fukunaga

Makoto Kobayashi

Atsushi Nakamura

Naohisa Suzuki

Jiro Tateyama

Masao Maeda

Kenji Maeda

Shigeru Mizoguchi

Jin Sunata

Takahiro Onsen

Takeshi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Ueda

Michihei Murayama

Nobuyuki Iwauchi

Hisatsugu Naito

Naoki Shimada

Keisuke Niimoto

An electronic device is capable of communicating with a management server through a network, the management server being capable of transmitting information to a plurality of service providing servers. The electronic device includes: a communication unit configured to connect the electronic device to the network; a management unit configured to be capable of managing permission state information in a state where the electronic device is not connected to the network by the communication unit, the permission state information indicating whether transmission of device information from the electronic device is permitted by a user; and a processing unit configured to perform a process for transmitting the device information to the management server in a state where the electronic device is connected to the network by the communication unit in a case where the permission state information indicates that the transmission of the device information is permitted by the user.

Electronic device, control method of electronic device, information processing system, and storage medium

In response to a request from an external device, information related to a server that provides a service related to an apparatus is set. The set information related to the server is transmitted.

Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A server system transmits, in the case of holding a job for a processing apparatus at the time when connection to the processing apparatus has been established, a notification message indicating an occurrence of the job to the processing apparatus through the connection-established communication even in the case where no inquiry associated with the job is made from the processing apparatus through the connection-established communication.

Server system transmitting job to processing apparatus, information processing system, and control method for server system

In an information processing apparatus, in a case where a particular notification is received via a first connection with any of one or more servers using a first protocol, a second connection with any of the one or more servers is established using a second protocol and data to be processed is acquired via the second connection. In a case where a particular status change occurs in the information processing apparatus, the second connection is established even in a state in which the first connection is not established, and status information is transmitted to any of the one or more servers.

Information processing apparatus capable of communicating with any of one or more servers according to a first protocol and a second protocol, information processing system including the information processing apparatus, and a method performed by the information processing apparatus

One or more servers transmit a job to a processing apparatus in response to a request from the processing apparatus. The one or more servers transmit a job to the processing apparatus in response to a request from a device different from the processing apparatus when a predetermined registration process for registering the processing apparatus has been performed. The connection between the processing apparatus and the one or more servers to transmit the job is established in accordance with whether the predetermined registration process has been performed.

Information processing system in which connection for job transmission is established, processing apparatus, and server

A processing apparatus transmits a request to an external apparatus server for a job on a condition that a predetermined time has elapsed from detection of a predetermined event by a detection unit.

Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus requesting print job from server system based on detected event

A processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a job notification transmitted from a server, a control unit configured to store reception information indicating that the job notification is received in a memory, a request unit configured to request, in a case where the reception unit receives the job notification, the server to transmit job information, and an execution unit configured to execute the job using the job information transmitted from the server, in which the request unit requests the job information from the server in a case where the determination unit determines that the reception information is stored.

System, method and apparatus for managing job processing between a processing apparatus and server

Device identification information for causing a device to execute a job, and owner information for specifying the owner of the device are stored in association with each other. When the state of the device satisfies a predetermined condition, a display apparatus is controlled to display a screen for prompting a user to input the owner information. When the stored owner information is not input in the displayed screen, the device identification information is invalidated. When the owner information has been input or when the state of the device does not satisfy the predetermined condition, the device is controlled to be able to execute the job in accordance with the stored device identification information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

A printing apparatus is caused to print an image in which elements included in a document are arranged on a page by a print control method. The document, which includes the elements and information for arranging the elements, is acquired. An element disposed on an edge of the page is detected from among the elements included in the acquired document. The printing apparatus is caused to print an image in which the elements included in the document are arranged on the page and in which the element disposed on the edge of the page is expanded to a predetermined output area.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and recording medium for arranging print elements to be printed over an area of a print medium

It is determined to cause the printing apparatus to print when the printing apparatus receives a first print job which is issued and does not cause the printing apparatus to print. When it is determined to cause the printing apparatus to print, the print control apparatus controls the printing apparatus to print an image corresponding to a second print job for causing the printing apparatus to print based on the second print job.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium storing program

Device detection is performed by using a second detection unit which uses unicast transmission with a destination address being changed in addition to a first detection unit which uses broadcasting/multicasting. When unicast transmission can be normally performed, detection using the first detection unit is performed to determine whether broadcasting/multicasting at this point of time can be performed. In addition, the first or second detection unit is selected or the processing order of the first and second detection units is changed in accordance with the permission/inhibition determination result.

Communication apparatus, system, and method for updating a variable address of a device

In a printing system, a first apparatus transmits, to a printing apparatus, a printing instruction containing location information indicating the location of printing content on a network. When receiving the printing instruction, the printing apparatus updates the location information contained in the received printing instruction in accordance with a medium setting indicating a recording medium on which printing is to be performed, and issues a request for printing content corresponding to the updated location information through the network. In response to the request from the printing apparatus, a second apparatus transmits the printing content corresponding to the updated location information to the printing apparatus through the network, and the printing apparatus receives the printing content and performs printing of the printing content on the recording medium. Accordingly, printing content suitable for a printable region of a medium on which printing is to be performed can be easily acquired and printed.

Printing system and printing apparatus

Communication apparatus and method for detection or discrimination of communication partner by broadcast or multicast, and/or unicast communication

Update firmware is stored as one binary file. The binary file includes firmware data necessary for operating a controller unit and root certificate data necessary for a printer apparatus to establish secure communication with a content server. Specific information in the root certificate data is extracted from the update firmware, and the extracted specific information is used to update a management table of the root certificate provided in a RAM. With this configuration, it is possible for an information processing apparatus to reliably acquire and update the root certificate data without greatly changing the original functional configuration.

Information processing apparatus, control method for the apparatus, and information processing system

When a plurality of information signal processing apparatuses are connected via IEEE 1394 communication control buses, these buses are connected via bridges, and bus reset occurs on a remote bus other than connected buses (step S), occurrence of remote bus reset is notified (steps S, S). Thus, even if bus reset occurs, the consistency of bus reset processing in an upper protocol layer can be ensured to realize normal data communication between buses.

Information communication system, information communication method, information signal processing device and information signal processing method, and storage medium

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