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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Hirakawa, Kashiwa, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1255 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1206 (2013.01); G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1298 (2013.01); G06F 3/1228 (2013.01); G06F 3/1247 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method are provided in which a virtual printer service of a host computer automatically acquires from a real printer a response in response to a device search request without receiving the virtual printer generation instruction from a user, and a virtual printer configured to transmit a print job to the printer is then generated for each printer that responded to the device search request.