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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:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2006
Hidehiko Yokoyama, Machida, JP;
Hidehiko Yokoyama, Machida, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of this invention is to improve user friendliness when an image forming apparatus outputs accessibly stored data having undergone an image forming process by another image forming apparatus. To achieve this object, an image forming apparatus according to this invention which can perform an image forming process for received data and output the data, and communicably connects to another image forming apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold profile information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire property information on data which has undergone the image forming process by the other image forming apparatus and is accessibly stored, a comparison unit configured to compare the profile information with the property information, and a display unit configured to display a list of data stored in the other image forming apparatus together with an icon corresponding to the comparison result of the comparison unit.
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