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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Keiichi Takashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
A spooling method for sequentially printing a plurality of documents in which a server spools print data supplied from another information processing system on the same network. To realize this method, an output control apparatus for receiving data of a job unit input from a data source and outputting from an output unit data of the job unit in accordance with a predetermined order, includes a setting unit for setting an order of outputting data and a control unit for outputting from the output unit data of the job unit received from the data source, in accordance with the output order set by the setting unit.