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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2009
Hideyuki Matsuda, Suita, JP;
Kazumi Sawayanagi, Itami, JP;
Toshihiko Otake, Ikeda, JP;
Okihisa Yoshida, Amagasaki, JP;
Hideyuki Matsuda, Suita, JP;
Kazumi Sawayanagi, Itami, JP;
Toshihiko Otake, Ikeda, JP;
Okihisa Yoshida, Amagasaki, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A job execution system comprises a job execution apparatus and a server apparatus interconnected via a network. The server apparatus stores in itself, counter data defining the range of using the job execution apparatus, which is allowed for a user who logs in the job execution apparatus by authentication. The job execution apparatus obtains entirely or partially the counter data of the login user from the server apparatus; returns the counter data that is reduced by job execution to the server apparatus when the user logs out thereof; judges according to conditions set on the job execution apparatus itself, whether or not the counter data returning operation should be suspended; and suspends the counter data returning operation if judges that it should be suspended.