Acquiring data for processing using location information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9239885-B2
Application number	US-201414338147-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2014
Priority date	Aug 12, 2013
Publication date	Jan 19, 2016
Grant date	Jan 19, 2016

Abstract

An information processing apparatus generates first location information about a location of at least a part of data as a target of predetermined processing and second location information about a location of location information corresponding to a part different from the part, and transmits the generated first and second location information to a processing apparatus which executes the predetermined processing for the data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing system, comprising one or more servers and a processing apparatus,
wherein the one or more servers comprises:
a generation unit configured to generate a first piece of first location information indicating a location of a first part of data as a target of predetermined processing and second location information indicating a location of a second piece of first location information corresponding to a second part of the data, wherein the first location information and the second location information have a common format; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit the first piece of first location information and the second location information generated by said generation unit to the processing apparatus; and
wherein the processing apparatus comprises:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire the first part by analyzing the first piece of first location information transmitted by said transmission unit, and acquire the second piece of first location information corresponding to the second part by analyzing the second location information transmitted by said transmission unit, and acquire the second part by analyzing the second piece of first location information acquired from the second location information; and
an execution unit configured to execute the predetermined processing for the first part and the second part acquired by said acquisition unit.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said generation unit generates a file including the first piece of first location information and the second location information, and said transmission unit transmits the generated file.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said generation unit generates the second location information in a case where a predetermined condition associated with the first piece of first location information is satisfied.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein in a case where the generation unit generates a plurality of pieces of first location information indicating the location of data, the predetermined condition is set as a condition based on a fact that a piece of first location information that has not been transmitted yet by said transmission unit exists out of the plurality of pieces of first location information, and the generation unit generates the second location information in a case where the condition is satisfied.

5. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined condition is set as a condition based on a fact that a size of the first location information is larger than a predetermined size, and the generation unit generates the second location information in a case where the condition is satisfied.

6. The system according to claim 5 , the one or more servers further comprising an obtaining unit configured to obtain information used to identify the predetermined size from the processing apparatus,
wherein said generation unit generates the second location information in a case where the predetermined condition based on the predetermined size identified by the information obtained by said obtaining unit is satisfied.

7. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined condition is set as a condition based on a fact that said generation unit has not completed generation of the first location information in a case where an acquisition request of the first location information is received from the processing apparatus, and the generation unit generates the second location information in a case where the condition is satisfied.

8. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined processing is printing by a print apparatus serving as the processing apparatus, and
the first location information indicates a location of print data corresponding to some of a plurality of pages of a print target of the print apparatus.

9. The system according to claim 8 , the one or more servers further comprising a conversion unit configured to convert data of the print target into the print data.

10. The system according to claim 9 , the one or more servers further comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether the print data identified by the first location information generated by said generation unit has been transmitted to the processing apparatus,
wherein said conversion unit executes the conversion of data corresponding to the second part in accordance with determination by said determination unit that the print data corresponding to the first part has been transmitted to the processing apparatus.

11. The system according to claim 9 , wherein said conversion unit executes the conversion of the data of the first or second part in accordance with reception of the acquisition request of the first location information corresponding to the data of the first or second part from the print apparatus.

12. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said generation unit generates information of a print setting in addition to the information indicating the location of the print data.

13. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said generation unit generates the second information in a case where a number of the plurality of pages of the print target is larger than a predetermined number.

14. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said execution unit does not execute another predetermined processing different from the predetermined processing for the data until the predetermined processing for the data is completed.

15. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said acquisition unit executes the acquisition of the first part, the second piece of first location information corresponding to the second part, and the second part by performing common processing corresponding to the common format.

16. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the common format is URL.

17. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers include a first server comprising said generation unit and a second server comprising said transmission unit.

18. An information processing method executed by one or more servers and a processing apparatus, comprising:
generating, by the one or more servers, a first piece of first location information indicating a location of a first part of data as a target of predetermined processing and second location information indicating a location of a second piece of first location information corresponding to a second part of the data, wherein the first location information and the second location information have a common format; and
transmitting, by the one or more servers, the first piece of first location information and the second location information generated in the generating to the processing apparatus;
acquiring, by the processing apparatus, the first part by analyzing the first piece of first location information transmitted in the transmitting;
executing, by the processing apparatus, the predetermined processing for the first part;
acquiring, by the processing apparatus, the second piece of first location information corresponding to the second part by analyzing the second location information transmitted in the transmitting;
acquiring, by the processing apparatus, the second part by analyzing the second piece of first location information acquired from the second location information; and
executing, by the processing apparatus, the predetermined processing for the second part.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Suzuki Takeshi

Classifications

• G06F3/122

  with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU · CPC title

• G06F16/958 Primary

  Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking · CPC title

• G06F3/1212 Primary

  achieving reduced delay between job submission and print start · CPC title

• G06F2206/1514

  Sub-job · CPC title

• G06F3/1265

  Printing by reference, e.g. retrieving document/image data for a job from a source mentioned in the job · CPC title