PRINT SERVER APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120050799A1
• Filed: 08/09/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Towata, Hiroaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,817,300 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• 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 3/1267 Job repository, e.g. non-scheduled jobs, delay printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1268 Job submission, e.g. submitting print job order or request not the print data itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

A print server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and an instruction unit. The receiving unit receives a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document. The extraction unit extracts identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL. The acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen. The instruction unit instructs a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.

Claims

1. A print server apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document;

an extraction unit configured to extract identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen; and

an instruction unit configured to instruct a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.

2. The print server apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a selection unit configured to select an acquisition method of the document data based on the URL received by the receiving unit,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by identification information from a web application server that provides the edit screen to the web browser according to the acquisition method of the document data selected by the selection unit.

3. The print server apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the extraction unit extracts identification information that identifies document data of the document from the URL received by the receiving unit according to the acquisition method of the document data selected by the selection unit.

4. A control method comprising:

receiving a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device that displays on a web browser the edit screen, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server to execute edit processing of the document by using the displayed edit screen;

extracting identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL;

acquiring the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen; and

instructing a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.

5. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute a control method according to claim 4.