Network print system for merging data with template data for printing or display, subject to applicable restrictions

• US 7,126,704 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2004
• Issued: 10/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsushita, Takashi, Ueda, Akira, Miura, Kiyotaka, Tsukada, Tsunehiro, Tamura, Masaki, Tsukui, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Popovici, Dov
• Application Number:
  US10/923,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20050018249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.14, 358/1.13, 358/1.16, 358/1.17, 358/1.18, 358/1.1, 358/1.2, 358/1.6, 358/1.9, 358/1.11, 399/366, 705/57, 705/62
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A network print system which aims at printing high-quality image data of a form is generated using a Web browser. In response to a request from a client to print or to display a document, a server merges an appropriate template with the variable data to produce print data or display data, as the case may be; however, based on whether certain authorization or restriction conditions are applicable to the request being processed, the server in an appropriate case inhibits generation of print data or display data, so that the print request or display request is not fulfilled.

Claims

1. A network print system having:

a client which issues a print request of a document composed of predetermined template data and variable data to be merged with the template data using a printer connected on a network, or a display request of a document to be printed; and

a server which is connected to said client to be able to communicate therewith, generates print data on the basis of the print request or display data on the basis of the display request, and sends the generated data to said client,

said server inhibiting generation of the print data or changing contents of print data to be generated on the basis of authority data registered in advance upon executing a process, based on the print request.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the change is made in units of items which form template data corresponding to the print or display request.

3. A network print system having:

a client which issues a print request of a document composed of predetermined template data and variable data to be merged with the template data using a printer connected on a network, or a display request of a document to be printed; and

a server which is connected to said client to be able to communicate therewith, generates print data on the basis of the print request or display data on the basis of the display request, and sends the generated data to said client,

said server comprising;

restriction information storage means for storing restriction conditions which disable a print or display process in units of template data, and

said server inhibiting a process based on the print or display request when the print or display request satisfies a restriction condition.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the restriction condition is a date.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein the restriction condition is an accumulated print count.