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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Masahiro Murakami, Hekinan, JP;
Masahiro Murakami, Hekinan, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
When an inquiry of a device state is received at a first communication port from an information processing terminals, a corresponding printer determines whether a second communication port that is communicably connected to the information processing terminal is present besides the first communication port, and if the second communication port is present, determines whether the first communication port is a communication port of the highest priority among the communication ports currently connected to the communicable terminals, and if the second communication port is not present or the first communication port is the communication port of the highest priority, makes the status information expressing the operation state of the device be sent from the first communication port to the information processing terminal that inquired the device state.