Data processing system for instrumental analysis, server and data processing method

• US 20050240586A1
• Filed: 04/07/2005
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Original Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Inventors: Sakata, Yuko
• Application Number:
  US11/100,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20050240586A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1244 Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1268 Job submission, e.g. submitting print job order or request not the print data itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1289 in server-client-printer device configuration, e.g. the server does not see the printer

Abstract

A server receiving instruction of data analysis processing executes the analysis processing, generates a report using the processing result, and then converts the report document into a PDF file and copies the file into a predetermined folder of a PC of the processing instruction source. When an operator instructs print out with a PC at hand, a report of a PDF format is printed out by a function of a printer driver installed in the PC. Thus, the server does not participate in print out processing at all, load is not imposed on the server, and also there is no need for the server to have a printer driver for a printer connected to each of the PCs.

Claims

1. A data processing system for an instrumental analysis, said system comprising:

a server which executes a data analysis processing; and

at least one client terminal which controls an analytical instrument for acquiring data and/or instructs the data analysis processing to said server, said client terminal being connected to said server via a network,

wherein said server includes

a report file generating section for executing the data analysis processing based on the instruction from the client terminal, and generating a report file in an image format independent of a printer model, said report file containing a result obtained by the data analysis processing, and

a file copy section for copying the report file to a storage section of the client terminal, and

said client terminal executes a print out processing with respect to the report file stored in the storage section so that the report file is printed out from a printer connected to said client terminal or to which a print out instruction can be given from said client terminal.

2. A data processing system for an instrumental analysis according to claim 1, wherein said system comprises a plurality of client terminals connected to said server via the network, each of which controls an analytical instrument for acquiring data and/or instructs the data analysis processing to said server,

wherein the report file generating section of said server executes the data analysis processing based on the instruction from the client terminal and generates a report file in an image format independent of a printer model, said report file containing a result obtained by the data analysis processing, and the file copy section of said server copies the report file to a storage section of the client terminal which instructed the execution of the data analysis processing, and

wherein the client terminal which instructed the execution of the data analysis processing executes a print out processing with respect to the report file stored in the storage section so that the report file is printed out from a printer connected to the client terminal which instructed the execution of the data analysis processing or to which a print out instruction can be given from the client terminal which instructed the execution of the data analysis processing.

3. A server for executing a data analysis processing for an instrumental analysis, said server comprising:

a report file generating section for executing the data analysis processing based on the instruction from a client terminal connected to said server via a network, and generating a report file in an image format independent of a printer model, said report file containing a result obtained by the data analysis processing, and

a file copy section for copying the report file to a storage section of the client terminal.

4. A data processing method, comprising:

executing a data analysis processing based on an instruction from a client terminal which is connected to a server via a network;

executing a report generation processing using a result of the data analysis processing to generate a report containing a result obtained by the data analysis processing;

converting the generated report into a file in an image format independent of a printer model; and

copying the file to a storage section of the client terminal which instructed the execution of the data analysis processing.