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JOB HISTORY INFORMATION AUDIT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND AUDIT METHOD

  • US 20110286026A1
  • Filed: 03/30/2011
  • Published: 11/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A job history information audit system formed by connecting, to a cooperation server located in an external network, a first document management server and a printing apparatus which are located in an internal network, and a second document management server belonging to a network different from the internal network to which said first document management server belongs, whereinsaid printing apparatus comprisesan acquisition unit configured to recognize a connected portable medium and acquires first data stored in the portable medium,a generation unit configured to generate second data including job history information concerning a history of a job processed by said printing apparatus and the first data,a transmission unit configured to transmit the second data to said first document management server,a reception unit configured to receive an instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing of the second data from said first document management server, anda printing unit configured to execute print processing when an instruction received by said reception unit permits printing of the second data,said first document management server comprisesan acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying a document management server from said cooperation server,a second data reception unit configured to receive the second data from said printing apparatus,a determination unit configured to determine, based on the second data and the identification information, whether document data of the second data is document data managed by said first document management server,a storage unit configured to store the second data when said determination unit determines that the document data is document data managed by said first document management server,a transmission unit configured to transmit the second data to said cooperation server when said determination unit determines that the document data is carry-in document data which is not managed by said first document management server,an instruction reception unit configured to receive the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing based on a result of storing processing for the second data transmitted from said cooperation server by said transmission unit, andan instruction transmission unit configured to transmit the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing to said printing apparatus,said second document management server comprisesan acquisition unit configured to acquire second data corresponding to document data managed by said second document management server from said cooperation server,a second data storage unit configured to perform storing processing of second data corresponding to document data acquired by said acquisition unit and managed by said second document management server, anda transmission unit configured to transmit a result of processing by said second data storage unit to said cooperation server, andsaid cooperation server comprisesan assignment unit configured to assign a storage area for the identification information and data corresponding to the identification information to each document management server,a reception unit configured to receive the second data from said first document management server,a storage unit configured to store the received second data in the storage area of the data corresponding to the identification information based on the identification information of the second data received by said reception unit,a second data transmission unit configured to transmit, to said second document management server, second data corresponding to document data managed by said second document management server,a result reception unit configured to receive a result of storing processing for the second data from said second document management server, anda transmission unit configured to transmit, to said first document management server, the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing based on the result of the storing processing received from said second document management server.

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