Printing managing apparatus and computer readable medium storing printing managing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965706-B1
Application number	US-201715494823-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 24, 2017
Priority date	Oct 21, 2016
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A printing managing apparatus includes: a job attribute correlating information acquiring unit that acquires job attribute correlating information that correlates pieces of individual job attribute information used in plural respective printing control apparatus with common job attribute information for each job attribute that can be set in print job information so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus as transmission destination candidates of the print job information; an attribute specification information converting unit as defined herein; and a manipulation control processing unit as defined herein.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing managing apparatus comprising a processor that executes a program to function as:
a job attribute correlating information acquiring unit that acquires job attribute correlating information that correlates pieces of individual job attribute information used in plural respective printing control apparatus with common job attribute information for each job attribute that can be set in print job information so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus as transmission destination candidates of the print job information;
an attribute specification information converting unit that converts the pieces of individual job attribute information of attribute specification information that is transmitted from a printing control apparatus and contains pieces of individual job attribute information indicating job attributes that can be set in the printing control apparatus and sets of attribute values that can be designated for the respective job attributes into respective pieces of common job attribute information using the job attribute correlating information; and
a manipulation control processing unit that links manipulation target print job information with the attribute specification information using pieces of common job attribute information indicating job attributes that are set in the manipulation target print job information, and displays the manipulation target print job information in a print job information manipulation picture that is set so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus to allow a manipulation on the displayed print job information.

2. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a program executed by the processor to function as:
a status information correlating information acquiring unit that acquires status information correlating information that correlates pieces of individual status information used in the plural respective printing control apparatus with common status information for each status attribute indicating a status of print job information sent to the plural printing control apparatus; and
a status information converting unit that converts individual status information that is set as a status attribute acquired from a printing control apparatus and indicating a status of print job information into common status information using the status information correlating information, wherein:
the manipulation control processing unit displays print job information containing the common status information obtained through the conversion by the status information converting unit in the print job information manipulation picture, and allows a manipulation on the print job information.

3. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a program executed by the processor to function as:
a printing apparatus status information correlating information acquiring unit that acquires printing apparatus status information correlating information that correlates pieces of individual printing apparatus status information used in the plural respective printing control apparatus with common printing apparatus attribute information for each printing apparatus status attribute indicating a status of a printing apparatus to perform printing according to print job information transmitted to an associated printing control apparatus; and
a printing apparatus status information converting unit that converts individual printing apparatus status information that is set as a printing apparatus status attribute acquired from a printing control apparatus into common printing apparatus status information using the printing apparatus status information correlating information, wherein:
the manipulation control processing unit displays the common printing apparatus status information obtained through the conversion by the printing apparatus status information converting unit in the print job information manipulation picture.

4. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a program executed by the processor to function as a print job information converting unit that converts pieces of individual job attribute information indicating job attributes that are set in acquired print job information into respective pieces of common job attribute information using the job attribute correlating information.

5. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein:
the print job information converting unit converts pieces of individual job attribute information indicating job attributes that are set in print job information transmitted from outside into respective pieces of common job attribute information using the job attribute correlating information, and stores the resulting pieces of common job attribute information in a print job information memory; and
the manipulation control processing unit displays the print job information manipulation picture by referring to the print job information memory.

6. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a program executed by the processor to function as:
an apparatus collating information acquiring unit that acquires apparatus collating information that collates model names of printing apparatus with pieces of identification information of the printing control apparatus connected to the printing apparatus, respectively; and
an apparatus converting unit that converts a model name of a printing apparatus contained in information transmitted from a printing control apparatus into identification information of a printing control apparatus using the apparatus collating information, wherein:
the manipulation control processing unit identifies the printing control apparatus as a transmission source of the information based on the identification information of the printing control apparatus obtained through the conversion by the apparatus converting unit.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as:
a job attribute correlating information acquiring unit that acquires job attribute correlating information that correlates pieces of individual job attribute information used in plural respective printing control apparatus with common job attribute information for each job attribute that can be set in print job information so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus as transmission destination candidates of the print job information, respectively;
an attribute specification information converting unit that converts the pieces of individual job attribute information of attribute specification information that is transmitted from a printing control apparatus and contains pieces of individual job attribute information indicating job attributes that can be set in the printing control apparatus and sets of attribute values that can be designated for the respective job attributes into respective pieces of common job attribute information using the job attribute correlating information; and
a manipulation control processing unit that links manipulation target print job information with the attribute specification information using pieces of common job attribute information indicating job attributes that are set in the manipulation target print job information, and displays the manipulation target print job information in a print job information manipulation picture that is set so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus to allow a manipulation on the manipulation target print job information.

Assignees

• Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fukami Dai
• Matsuo Taku

Classifications

• G06F3/1253 Primary

  Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client · CPC title

• G06F3/1288

  in client-server-printer device configuration · CPC title

• G06K15/1805 Primary

  Receiving printer configuration commands · CPC title

• G06F3/1231

  Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification · CPC title

• G06F3/1256

  User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks · CPC title