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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masato Ochiai, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to automatize monitoring processing for displaying on a display unit a status of a print apparatus which is receiving a transferred print job. In order to achieve the object, after print data is transmitted, as a packet received from a printer ( ) is analyzed to control start or end of status monitoring of the printer ( ) by a CPU of a computer system ( ), the packet received from the printer ( ) is also analyzed to monitor a status of the printer ( ) and then display monitored contents on a monitor ( ).