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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2005
Akihiro Mizutani, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Ogura, Fujisawa, JP;
Shinji Makishima, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Ida, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Mizutani, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Ogura, Fujisawa, JP;
Shinji Makishima, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Ida, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion.