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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2006
Applicant:
Tatsuo Matoba, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuo Matoba, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In order to allow effective utilization of a printing device when operators are absent, such as nighttime and further effective utilization of the printing device in business hours that operators are present, when a received print order is determined to be processable outside predetermined hours, an attribute indicating processability outside the predetermined hours is set to the print order. Thus, the print order to which the attribute is set is allocated to the outside of the business hours when the print order cannot be scheduled to be processed inside the predetermined hours.