PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS

• US 20170139654A1
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Published: 05/18/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 local area network interface including a direct wireless function that directly executes wireless communication between the printing apparatus and an external apparatus;

a memory; and

a processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to;

receive an instruction for starting the direct wireless function from a user; and

determine, in a case where the printing apparatus receives print data using wireless communication by the direct wireless function, the user having input the instruction for starting the direct wireless function as an owner of the print data.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor stores user information about the user having input the instruction for starting the direct wireless function, and

wherein the processor determines the user indicated by the user information as the owner of the print data.

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

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

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is a function of connecting the printing apparatus to a wired local area network via a local area network cable.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the direct wireless function is an access point mode in which the printing apparatus acts as an access point.

7. A printing apparatus comprising:

a wireless local area network interface including a direct wireless function that directly executes wireless communication between the printing apparatus and an external apparatus;

a memory; and

a processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to;

receive an instruction for starting the direct wireless function from a user;

control, in a case where the printing apparatus receives an instruction for starting the direct wireless function from a user, the wireless local area network interface to start the direct wireless function using a service set identifier corresponding to the user; and

determine, in a case where the printing apparatus receives print data using wireless communication by the direct wireless function, a user corresponding to the service set identifier used in the direct wireless function as an owner of the print data.

8. The printing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the printing apparatus stores an association between a user and a service set identifier exclusive to the user, and

wherein the processor uses the association to identify the user corresponding to the service set identifier used in the direct wireless function.

9. The printing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, in a case where the printing apparatus receives print data using a communication function different from the direct wireless function, the processor determines an owner of the print data based on information included in the received print data.

10. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is an infrastructure mode of a wireless local area network.

11. The printing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the communication function different from the direct wireless function is a function of connecting the printing apparatus to a wired local area network via a local area network cable.

12. The printing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the direct wireless function is an access point mode in which the printing apparatus acts as an access point.

13. A control method executed by a printing apparatus including a direct wireless function that executes wireless communication between the printing apparatus and an external apparatus, the control method comprising:

receiving an instruction for starting the direct wireless function from a user; and

determining, in a case where the printing apparatus receives print data using wireless communication by the direct wireless function, the user having input the instruction for starting the direct wireless function as an owner of the print data.

14. A control method executed by a printing apparatus including a wireless local area network interface including a direct wireless function that executes wireless communication between the printing apparatus and an external apparatus, the control method comprising:

receiving an instruction for starting the direct wireless function from a user;

controlling, in a case where the printing apparatus receives the instruction for starting the direct wireless function from the user, the wireless local area network interface to start the direct wireless function using a service set identifier corresponding to the user; and

determining, in a case where the printing apparatus receives print data using wireless communication by the direct wireless function, a user corresponding to the service set identifier used in the direct wireless function as an owner of the print data.