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Information processing apparatus and control method thereof

An information processing equipment and information management technology, applied in the field of printing log management system, can solve problems such as power failure of client PC and time-consuming job information transmission, and achieve the effect of preventing failure

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-08-20
CANON KK
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However, if the system is configured in this way, unlike a print server, a client PC power loss may occur at any time
In addition, there may be cases where job information transmission takes time, such as the case where the client PC and the log information management server are established separately

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[0025] FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the log information management system according to the present embodiment. The client PC 11 is an information processing device that generates print data to be transmitted to the printer 12 based on print target data such as a document provided at the time of printing. In other words, the client PC 11 is the print job originator. Furthermore, the client PC 11 generates log information based on user information, information on the client PC, and generated print data, and transmits the log information to the log information management server 13 (also referred to as a job information management server). In other words, the client PC 11 serves as a log generator. Job tracking information, that is, log information, is recorded in the log information management server 13 or in a database existing in the backend of the server 13 and stored.

[0026] FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a log information management system ac...

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[0054] The first embodiment has described the case where the print processing shown in FIGS. 8 , 9 , and 10 is manually switched by an administrator. The second embodiment describes a method of automatically performing this conversion.

[0055] Automatic conversion is performed by the driver agent 501 in the client PC 11. It may also be executed by the printer driver 502 . In other words, the driver agent 501 or the printer driver 502 functions as log control means that controls the transmission of log information. In either case, the selected process identifier is transmitted to printer driver 502 and stored. The printer driver 502 specifies a process selected from the print processes 1 to 3 (FIGS. 8 to 10) that has been specified by the stored process identifier, and executes the process. It is assumed that the execution timing of automatic conversion can be set by the management application in the log information management server 13 such as at startup of the client PC 1...

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[0064] Fig. 12 shows the procedure of the driver agent, in which processing switching is performed according to the authority of the logged-in user. Note that, in the case where the computer is shared by a plurality of people, switching may be performed not according to the authority of the logged-in user but according to the authority of the user who is the owner of the print job being processed.

[0065] Preferably, step S110 and step S119 are executed before step S121 in FIG. 12 . However, this processing is not shown in FIG. 12 .

[0066] In step S121, information indicating the level of authority of the login user is acquired. For example, the authority level of the user includes an administrator level, a super user level, a common user level, a tourist user level, and the like. The user's permission level can be obtained from the functions provided by the OS. In step S122, it is determined whether the acquired authority level of the user is equal to or higher than a f...

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In a print log management system including a client which generates log information, printing prioritized processing or log-recording prioritized processing is switched in accordance with network performance. A driver agent transmits job log 1 to a server to time the response time, and compares the obtained response time with threshold value 1. If the response time is equal to or longer than threshold value 1, printing performance is prioritized and the control is switched to process 3, in which log information is transmitted after the printing is completed. If the response time of job log 1 is less than threshold value 1 and content log transmission speed is equal to or higher than threshold value 2, the control is switched to process 2 in which only job log 1 is transmitted before printing is executed. If the content log transmission speed is less than threshold value 2, the control is switched to process 1 in which the content log of the print data is transmitted each time a page is outputted.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a print log management system including an information processing device such as a personal computer and a printing device such as a printer capable of tracking outputted print jobs. Background technique [0002] Usually the following job history management systems have been provided. For example, there has been a system that accumulates job information including log information and print data output from a printer by a user in a print server, and tracks job contents based on the log information when information leakage occurs (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-149371 and 2004-118243). In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, there has been a system that extracts job information through a client PC and accumulates the information in a separately provided log information management server (also referred to as a job information management server) via a print server (referred to as a job information management server). Called m...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/12
CPCG06F3/1288G06F3/1238G06F3/1294G06F3/1222G06F3/1273
Inventor 福留直文
Owner CANON KK
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