Cloud Print Server Common Queue Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing print server systems face challenges in efficiently managing and transmitting print jobs across different image forming apparatuses, particularly in cloud print environments, where identification information consistency and seamless job management are lacking.
Innovation Solution
A server system is designed with an obtainment unit to gather identification information from multiple image forming apparatuses, a generation unit to create a print queue, and a transmission unit to manage and transmit print jobs to corresponding apparatuses, ensuring consistent identification and efficient job processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a print server system uses separate identification information for each image forming apparatus, then each apparatus can be individually identified, but managing print jobs across multiple apparatuses becomes complex and inconsistent
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by introducing a common identification information (common ID) that is shared across multiple image forming apparatuses. This common ID serves as a universal identifier that enables consistent print job management across different apparatuses, allowing the print server to treat multiple devices as a unified group while maintaining individual apparatus identities through their respective individual IDs.
2Productivity
If the system transmits print jobs to each image forming apparatus individually using individual identification information, then each job can be routed precisely, but the transmission process becomes inefficient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies merging by combining multiple individual identification informations into a single common identification information. This allows the print server to transmit print jobs to multiple image forming apparatuses simultaneously or in a coordinated manner using the common ID, rather than handling each apparatus separately, thereby improving transmission efficiency and reducing the time required for job management.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud print services lack unified identification management, then apparatus independence is maintained, but seamless job management and consistency across devices cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the identification information system into two distinct segments: individual identification information specific to each image forming apparatus and common identification information shared across multiple apparatuses. This segmented approach allows the system to maintain apparatus independence through individual IDs while achieving seamless job management and consistency through the common ID, enabling both device autonomy and unified control in cloud print services.
Data Source
AI summary
In a case where a print queue is registered in a cloud service, a common print queue is generated and registered with respect to a plurality of image forming apparatuses separately from a print queue with respect to a specific image forming apparatus. In a case where printing is performed on the common print queue at a time of printing, a print job is held in the cloud service and is transmitted after being authenticated by an image forming apparatus corresponding to the common print queue.