INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20120162708A1
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ito, Yosuke, Kojima, Yuji, Hagiwara, Shogo
• Granted Patent: US 9,013,738 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1212 achieving reduced delay between job submission and print start
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/127 by using hot folders, e.g. folder for which print settings or print data management rules are set in advance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

When it is detected that a file has been stored in a hot folder, an apparatus stands by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on settings associated with the hot folder. When the predetermined period of time elapses, the apparatus processes the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for processing a file stored in a hot folder, comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect that the file has been stored in the hot folder;

a processing unit configured to process the file based on settings associated with the hot folder; and

a control unit configured to control, when said detection unit detects the file, said processing unit to stand by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the predetermined period of time elapses, said control unit controls said processing unit to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, when said detection unit detects the file, a first size of the file;

a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, when the predetermined period of time elapses, a second size of the file; and

a comparison unit configured to compare the first size with the second size,

wherein when, as a result of the comparison by said comparison unit, the second size is larger than the first size, said control unit controls said processing unit to stand by for the predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder, and when the second size is equal to the first size, said control unit controls said processing unit to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing of the file is print processing.

5. An information processing method which is executed in an information processing apparatus for processing a file stored in a hot folder, comprising:

a detection step of detecting that the file has been stored in the hot folder;

a processing step of processing the file based on settings associated with the hot folder; and

a control step of controlling, when the file is detected in the detection step, the processing step to stand by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, when the predetermined period of time elapses, the processing step is controlled in the control step to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising

a first acquisition step of acquiring, when the file is detected in the detection step, a first size of the file;

a second acquisition step of acquiring, when the predetermined period of time elapses, a second size of the file; and

a comparison step of comparing the first size with the second size,

wherein when, as a result of the comparison in the comparison step, the second size is larger than the first size, the processing step is controlled in the control step to stand by for the predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder, and when the second size is equal to the first size, the processing step is controlled in the control step to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the processing of the file is print processing.

9. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute

a detection step of detecting that a file has been stored in a hot folder;

a processing step of processing the file based on settings associated with the hot folder; and

a control step of controlling, when the file is detected in the detection step, the processing step to stand by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

10. The storage medium according to claim 9, wherein, when the predetermined period of time elapses, the processing step is controlled in the control step to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

11. The storage medium according to claim 9,

wherein the program causes the computer to further execute

a first acquisition step of acquiring, when the file is detected in the detection step, a first size of the file,

a second acquisition step of acquiring, when the predetermined period of time elapses, a second size of the file, and

a comparison step of comparing the first size with the second size, and

when, as a result of the comparison in the comparison step, the second size is larger than the first size, the processing step is controlled in the control step to stand by for the predetermined period of time not to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder, and when the second size is equal to the first size, the processing step is controlled in the control step to process the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

12. The storage medium according to claim 9, wherein the processing of the file is print processing.