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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2012
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ryuta Mori, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1237 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); H04L 67/2852 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 9/44505 (2013.01);
Abstract
A job execution instruction is received from an information processing apparatus, an environment variable instructed in the job execution instruction is acquired, and an environment variable management table is searched for an environment variable definition that corresponds to the acquired environment variable. An apparatus that is in the network and holds a value that is to replace the environment variable is selected based on an environment variable definition that was searched, the value that is to replace the environment variable is acquired from the selected apparatus, and the environment variable is replaced with the value.