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Print system, print server, control method thereof, and program capable of registering printer configuration information in a service provider in an environment in which a service for providing the printing function is utilized

US8576422B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 21, 2009
Grant dateNov 5, 2013
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Expiry dateJul 3, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/4095
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium.

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