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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
May. 21, 1997
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a network system being composed of server apparatuses and a client apparatus, the client apparatus requests the server apparatuses to publish functions they can provide by using the function information requesting unit, receives information on such functions from the server apparatuses by using the function information receiving unit, generates the guidance menu based on the received information by using the guidance menu generating unit, and displays the guidance menu by using the displaying unit. Each server apparatus manages jobs requested by the client apparatus by assigning priorities to the jobs by using the job management unit, and searches a job having the highest priority at intervals and executes the job by using the job controlling unit.