Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-13
2003-07-01
Lim, Krisna (Department: 2153)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C712S220000, C358S296000, C709S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06587861
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a method for controlling the time and the place a job, such as printing, will be executed, and to a storage medium on which such a control program is stored.
2. Related Background Art
Conventionally, when information is printed a host apparatus, such as a computer, transmits to a printer print instructions accompanied by print data. The host apparatus also selects, from among a plurality of printers connected to a network, the printer that is to be used. And when information that is to be printed by a specific printer is also to be printed by another, different printer, the same information must be transmitted by the host computer to the other printer.
A specific printer, available on a network, prints information that is received from a plurality of host computers. The employment of an apparatus across a network is limited by the requirement that a password must be entered before the apparatus is used. However, the employment of a password is intended only to control whether the apparatus can be used by individual users. A control that requires the use of a password can not cope with a request such as that the performance of a process by a specific apparatus is to be inhibited because the processing capability of the apparatus is inadequate, there is a difference in standards, or the status of the apparatus is unsatisfactory. In addition, in an environment wherein an unspecified majority of users can employ an apparatus, it is not easy to inhibit the use by a specific user of a processing apparatus.
Furthermore, a host apparatus, such as a computer, must transmit a print instruction a printer when a desired print time has arrived.
Further, although a plurality of processes can be executed, in a system wherein a peripheral device, such as a printer, receives an instruction from a host computer and initiates processing under the control of the host computer, the execution control and management of the processing will be complicated if a specific process is to be performed only when an execution condition has been satisfied. Moreover, the management of the processing required to setup the process for a different device, and to execute the process when the execution condition has been satisfied, will also be complicated. And this complicated control must in particular be employed for the performance of a process that corresponds to the operation of a local apparatus and a process that is instructed by another apparatus.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is, therefore, one objective of the present invention to provide for the performance of a process an apparatus and a method for providing additional information that is associated with the process.
It is another objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method by which a specific apparatus can process target information stored in a different apparatus in the same manner as that target information is processed by the different apparatus.
It is an additional objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for easily and certainly rejecting a request for the performance of a process transmitted by a specific transmission source.
It is a further objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for performing processing at a time that is designated in advance.
It is a still further objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for easily setting up a process and for managing the execution of the process.
To achieve the above objectives, according to one aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises:
input means for entering information; and
processing means for performing processing based on a process instruction that corresponds to the information entered by the input means,
wherein the process instruction includes the type of process and wherein the processing means performs a process of the type that is included in the process instruction.
According to another aspect of the present invention, an information processing method comprises:
an input step of entering information; and
a processing step of performing processing based on a process instruction that corresponds to the information entered at the input step,
wherein the process instruction includes the type of process and wherein a process of the type that is included in the process instruction is performed at the processing step.
According to an additional aspect of the present invention, provided is a storage medium on which is stored a program, which comprises:
an input step of entering information; and
a processing step of performing processing based on a process instruction that corresponds to the information entered at the input step,
wherein the process instruction includes the type of process and wherein a process of the type that is included in the process instruction is performed at the processing step.
In addition, to achieve the above described objectives, according to a further objective of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises:
print means for printing object information to be processed;
transmission means for transmitting the object information;
object information storage means for storing the object information;
display means for displaying a list of the object information that is stored in the object information storage means;
object information selection means for selecting from the information list object information to be processed;
apparatus designation means for designating a local apparatus or a different apparatus as an apparatus to print the object information; and
control means for, when the local apparatus is designated by the apparatus designation means, permitting the print means to print the object information that is selected by the selection means, and for, when the different apparatus is designated by the apparatus designation means, permitting the transmission means to transmit the object information selected by the selection means to the different apparatus in order to print the object information thereby.
According to still another objective of the present invention, an information processing method comprises:
a display step of displaying a list of object information to be processed, which is stored in an object information storage unit for storing the object information to be processed;
an object information selection step of selecting from the information list object information to be processed;
an apparatus designation step of designating a local apparatus or a different apparatus as an apparatus to print the object information;
a print step of, when the local apparatus is designated at the apparatus designation step, printing the object information that is selected at the selection step; and
a transmission step of, when the different apparatus is designated at the apparatus designation step, transmitting the object information selected at the selection step to the different apparatus in order to print the object information thereby.
According to a still further objective of the present invention, provided is a storage medium on which is stored a program, which comprises:
a display step of displaying a list of object information to be processed, which is stored in an object information storage unit for storing the object information to be processed;
an object information selection step of selecting from the information list object information to be processed;
an apparatus designation step of designating a local apparatus or a different apparatus as an apparatus to print the object information;
a print step of, when the local apparatus is designated at the apparatus designation step, printing the object information that is selected at the selection step; and
a transmission step of, when the different apparatus is designated at the apparatus designation step, transmitting the object information selected at the selection step to the different apparatus in order to pr
Fujii Ken-ichi
Ibaraki Shouichi
Jeyachandran Suresh
Mikame Shuichi
Rohra Suda Aruna
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Fitzpatrick ,Cella, Harper & Scinto
Lim Krisna
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