Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus

• US 10,642,548 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Hosoda, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Milia, Mark R
• Application Number:
  US15/350,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20170139654A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,268 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1286 via local network
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing

Abstract

In a case where a printing apparatus receives print data using wireless communication in an access point mode, a user having input an instruction for starting operation in the access point mode is determined as a job owner.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication interface;

a display;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the printing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function in response to receiving the instruction;

identifying the user who has benn logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wiereless communications established by the started direct wireless function; and

determining the identified user as an owner of the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wiereless function.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the printing apparatus receives other print data via a communication function different from the started direct wireless function, the determining determines an owner of the received other print data, based on information included in the received other print data.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is an infrastructure mode of a wireless local area network (LAN).

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is a wired LAN communication function via a LAN cable.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the started direct wireless function is an access point mode in which the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus acts as an access point.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the printing apparatus to further perform storing information of the identified user according to the identifying the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus, and

wherein, in a case where the print data is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function, the identified user is determined as the owner of the received print data based on the stored information.

7. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the received print data is a print job, and the owner of the received print data is a job owner of the print job.

8. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the printing apparatus to further perform processing, as print data of the determined owner, the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function.

9. A printing apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication interface;

a display;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the printing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

determining an SSID corresponding to the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus, at the printing apparatus, when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function using the determined SSID in a case where the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wireless comunication establsihed by the direct wireless function that was started using hte determined SSID; and

determining the user corresponding to the determined SSID as an owner of the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the direct wireless function that was started using the determined SSID.

10. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise storing a management table for associating a user with an SSID to be exclusively used by the user,

wherein the SSID used in the started direct wireless function is determined based on the stored management table and the user who has been logging into the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus.

11. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, in a case where the printing apparatus receives other print data via a communication function different from the started direct wireless function, an owner of the received other print data is determined based on information included in the received other print data.

12. The printing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is an infrastructure mode of a wireless LAN.

13. The printing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is a wired LAN communication function via a LAN cable.

14. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the started direct wireless function is an access point mode in which the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus acts as an access point of the determined SSID.

15. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a connection key of the determined SSID corresponding to the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus; and

displaying the determined connection key and the determined SSID on the display of the printing apparatus,

wherein the wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and the external apparatus is established by the started direct wireless function in a case where the determined connection key of the determined SSID is input on the external apparatus.

16. A control method to be executed by a printing apparatus including a wireless communication interface, the control method comprising:

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function in response to receiving the instruction;

identifying the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function; and

processing, as print data of the identified user, the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function.

17. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

storing, into a storage of the printing apparatus, information of the identified user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen of the printing apparatus is identified,

wherein the print data, which is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function, is processed as the print data of the identified user based on the stored information.

18. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

receiving other print data via a communication function different from the started direct wireless function; and

determining an owner of the received other print data based on information included in the received other print data.

19. A control method to be executed by a printing apparatus including a wireless communication interface, the control method comprising:

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

determining an SSID corresponding to the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus, at the printing apparatus, when the instruction is received via the screen of the printing apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function using the determined SSID in a case where the instruction is received via the screen of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wireless communication established by the direct wireless function that was started using the determined SSID; and

processing, as print data of the user corresponding to the determined SSID, the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the direct wireless function that was started using the determined SSID.

20. A printing apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication interface;

a display;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the printing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function in response to receiving the instruction;

identifying the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function; and

associating the identified user with the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the started direct wireless function.

21. A printing apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication interface;

a display;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the printing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving an instruction which is provided by a user via a screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus, wherein the instruction instructs the printing apparatus to start a direct wireless function for establishing a wireless communication between the wireless communication interface of the printing apparatus and an external apparatus without intervention of a relay apparatus;

determining an SSID corresponding to the user who has been logging in to the printing apparatus when the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus;

starting the direct wireless function using the determined SSID in a case where the instruction is received via the screen displayed on the display of the printing apparatus;

receiving print data via the wireless communication established by the direct wireless function that was started using the determined SSID; and

associating the user corresponding to the determined SSID with the print data which is received via the wireless communication established by the direct wireless function that was started using the determined SSID.