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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Yohei Maekawa, Nagoya, JP;

Inventor:

Yohei Maekawa, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1221 (2013.01); G06K 15/402 (2013.01); G06K 15/4055 (2013.01); G06F 3/1229 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/1267 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1271 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printer includes: a printer-side establishment unit; an instruction transmitting unit for transmitting a connection instruction when the printer is to be changed from a first state to a second state; a printer-side notification receiving unit for receiving: a print notification from a notification server when the printer is at the first state; and a changing notification from a proxy server when the printer is at the second state; a change unit for changing the state of the printer as: from the first state to the second state when the connection instruction is transmitted to the proxy server; and from the second state to the first state when the changing notification is received from the proxy server; and a print control unit for controlling a print performing unit to perform printing in accordance with print data when the changing notification is received from the proxy server.


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