Multi-Tenant Cloud Printer Registration System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In a multi-tenant cloud printing environment, existing technologies only allow a printer to be registered as a single cloud printer, limiting its use by users from different tenants, whereas there is a need for a mechanism to enable shared usage of a single printer across multiple tenants.
Innovation Solution
A printing apparatus and system that can be registered with a cloud printing service as multiple cloud printers, allowing users from different tenants to share the same printer, with features like registration management and tenant information display to prevent duplicate registrations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a printer is registered as a single cloud printer in existing cloud printing services, then the registration management is simple, but the printer cannot be shared by users from different tenants
Solution Approach 1:
The printing apparatus is designed to function as multiple cloud printers simultaneously, each associated with different tenants. The control unit manages multiple registration information sets, allowing the single printer to serve multiple tenants through different cloud printer identities, thereby achieving multi-functionality and improved adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a printer is registered as multiple cloud printers for different tenants, then the printer sharing across tenants is enabled, but the registration management becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit automatically manages the complexity of multiple registrations by internally storing and managing multiple registration information sets associated with different tenants. This self-service mechanism shields users from the operational complexity, allowing them to easily select and use their designated cloud printer without needing to understand the underlying multi-registration system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If existing cloud printing service is used, then the service structure is simple, but it does not support multi-tenant environment
Solution Approach 1:
The invention adds a tenant dimension to the traditional one-to-one printer-registration model. By introducing multiple registration information sets associated with different tenants, the system transforms from a single-dimension registration structure to a multi-dimensional structure that accommodates multi-tenant environments while maintaining manageable complexity through automated control.
Data Source
AI summary
A printing apparatus provides information of a printer registration screen to receive an operation for registering the printing apparatus to a tenant, wherein the printer registration screen receives an operation for registering the printing apparatus to each of a plurality of tenants, and the information indicates the printing apparatus has been registered to each of the plurality of tenants, receives an instruction for registering the printing apparatus in response to an operation for registering the printing apparatus to the tenant via the printing registration screen, in association with a tenant that is managed in the first type cloud printing service, as a cloud printer that is used by a user belonging to the tenant, and requests, to the first type cloud printing service, to register the printing apparatus in association with the tenant based on an instruction received by the instruction unit.