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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Oki Data Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Jin Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OKI DATA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/0023 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1267 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); H04N 1/00204 (2013.01); H04N 1/00344 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with an external device and acquires specific information added to a print job stored in the external device, a controller that specifies the print job among a plurality of print jobs stored in the external device based on the specific information acquired from the external device via the communication unit, and issues a transmission request for the specified print job to the external device, and an output unit that forms an image based on the print job acquired from the external device via the communication unit.