US 11,861,248 B2
Image forming apparatus and control method thereof including control of print job
Akira Saito, Sunto Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,927.
Application 17/977,927 is a continuation of application No. 17/241,555, filed on Apr. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,494,138.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-157145 (JP), filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053036 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1234 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1267 (2013.01); G06F 3/1274 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a storage unit which stores a job management table;
an operation and display unit which inputs a user ID for login and displays various information; and
a processor configured to:
stop a print job under execution in response to an occurrence of an abnormality preventing the print job from continuing;
set the stopped print job to a skip state in response to the stop of the print job and log-out without a logout instruction by a user;
set an operational state by an operator in response to successful authentication of the operator;
in the operational state, receive an instruction to start a print job with which the authenticated operator is associated as the user;
extract a data record in which the user ID set in a data field of the job management table matches the user ID of the logged in user, and a data record in which invalid data is set in the field;
cause a list screen to be displayed on the display based on the extracted data records, the list screen representing a list of uncompleted jobs which includes the print job set to the skip state; and
restart the print job in the list screen in response to a restart instruction by the user associated with the print job and not by a second user different than the user associated with the print job.