Print system and information processing apparatus

• US 6,988,243 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2002
• Issued: 01/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Miura, Kiyotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie Anne
• Application Number:
  US10/143,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20020176112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,344 Days
• Field of Search: 715/505, 715/513, 715/507, 358/1.1, 709/201
• US Class Current: 715/209
• 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 3/1257 by using pre-stored settings, e.g. job templates, presets, print styles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

It is desirable for a user to perform optimum printing business in an environment of a print system used by the user, without being conscious of a function of forming document printing data by a server and a function of forming the document printing data by a client. If software for the function of forming the document printing data by the client is installed in a terminal of the client operated by the user, document-form data and document data are distributed from the server to the client in order to use the function.

Claims

1. A print system consisting of a server and a client, said system comprising:

acquisition means for acquiring a template for generating inserted data corresponding to information displayed at the client, and data to be inserted in the template, in response to a request from the client;

generation means for generating the inserted data corresponding to the displayed information, by inserting the data into the template acquired by said acquisition means; and

selection means for selecting at least one transmission method from plural transmission methods, in accordance with the information which is transmitted from the client,

wherein the plural transmission methods include at least a first transmission method in which the template and the data are transmitted to the client without inserting the data into the template and a second transmission method in which the inserted data generated by said server is transmitted to the client, and

wherein said selection means for selecting whether the template and the data acquired by said acquisition means are to be transferred from the server to the client, or the inserted data generated by said generation means is to be transferred from the server to the client, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client, wherein the transmitted information indicates whether or not the client has a function of generating the inserted data by inserting the data into the template acquired by said acquisition means.

2. An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a client, said information processing apparatus comprising:

acquisition means for acquiring a template for generating inserted data corresponding to information displayed at the client, and data to be inserted in the template, in response to a request from the client;

generation means for generating the inserted data corresponding to the displayed information, by inserting the data into the template acquired by said acquisition means;

selection means for selecting at least one transmission method from a plurality of transmission methods, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client,

wherein the plurality of transmission methods include at least a first transmission method in which the template and the data are transmitted to the client without inserting the data into the template, and a second transmission method in which the inserted data generated by said information processing apparatus is transmitted to the client, and

wherein said selection means selects whether the template and the data acquired by said acquisition means are to be transferred from said information processing apparatus to the client, or the inserted data generated by said generation means is to be transferred from the information processing apparatus to the client, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client, wherein the transmitted information indicates whether or not the client has a function of generating the inserted data by inserting the data into the template acquired by said acquisition means.

3. A program product, tangibly embodied, and executable in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a client, said program comprising steps to be executed by a computer, said steps comprising:

an acquisition step of acquiring a template for generating inserted data corresponding to information displayed at the client, and data to be inserted in the template, in response to a request from the client;

a generation step of generating the inserted data corresponding to the displayed information, by inserting the data into the template acquired in said acquisition step; and

a selection step of selecting at least one transmission method from a plurality of transmission methods, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client,

wherein the plurality of transmission methods include at least a first transmission method in which the template and the data are transmitted to the client without inserting the data into the template, and a second transmission method in which the inserted data generated by the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the client, and

wherein in said selection step, selection is made as to whether the template and the data acquired in said acquisition step are to be transferred from the information processing apparatus to the client, or the inserted data generated in said generation step is to be transferred from the information processing apparatus to the client, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client, wherein the transmitted information indicates whether or not the client has a function of generating the inserted data by inserting the data into the template acquired in said acquisition step.

4. An information processing method in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a client, said method comprising steps to be executed by the information processing apparatus, said steps comprising:

an acquisition step of acquiring a template for generating inserted data corresponding to information displayed at the client, and data to be inserted in the template, in response to a request from the client;

a generation step of generating the inserted data corresponding to the displayed information, by inserting the data into the template acquired in said acquisition step; and

a selection step of selecting at least one transmission method from a plurality of transmission methods, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client,

wherein the plurality of transmission methods include at least a first transmission method in which the template and the data are transmitted to the client without inserting the data into the template, and a second transmission method in which the inserted data generated by the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the client, and

wherein said selection step includes selecting whether the template and the data acquired in said acquisition step are to be transferred from the information processing apparatus to the client, or the inserted data generated in said generation step is to be transferred from the information processing apparatus to the client, in accordance with information which is transmitted from the client, wherein the transmitted information indicates whether or not the client has a function of generating the inserted data by inserting the data into the template acquired in said acquisition step.