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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Ji-won Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Hoe-go Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts includes a plurality of USB interfaces to connect with the respective multiple hosts to receive job request data for image forming jobs requested by the multiple hosts; a driver module to process the job request data received via the respective multiple USB interfaces; a USB data manager to generate job data that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data; and a main controller to control the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs based on the generated job data.