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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2022
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Kazuhiro Yoshimoto, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A printing control system includes: parent units and child units connected together through a network, the parent units including a first memory, and the child units including: a second memory; a job list request provider that transmits a job list request to connectable parent units and a job list response obtainer that obtains a job list response sent back. If a first child unit detects a parent unit not sending back the job list response within a predetermined time period, the first child unit stores, in a non-response parent unit information item, the parent unit not sending back the job list response, and when the first child unit transmits the job list request at a next time, the first child unit transmits the job list request to a parent unit other than the parent unit stored in the non-response parent unit information item.