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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2002
Kaoru Tada, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Jiro Goto, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Tatsuji Hirakawa, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Katsuhisa Toyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Kaoru Tada, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Jiro Goto, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Tatsuji Hirakawa, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Katsuhisa Toyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a client personal computer, when a user starts a remote copy program, the initial remote copy and setting screens are displayed on a screen. Together with this display, power consumption information and status information describing the operating state of each image processing device such as printers and scanners are collected over a network. This information is updated as necessary. The power consumption is estimated for each combination of image processing devices cooperatively processing a job based on the collected information. The combination having the least power consumption among the possible combinations is displayed on a screen. When a user presses the start key, operation specification information including specification for cooperatively executing a job are transmitted to each selected image processing device. In this way, the combination having the least power consumption is selected when a plurality of image processing devices connected on a network cooperatively process a job.