US 11,722,619 B2
Image forming apparatus having port to which portable memory is attachable
Yutaka Urakawa, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,797.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-000478 (JP), filed on Jan. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0217246 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00965 (2013.01) [H04N 1/0097 (2013.01); H04N 1/00424 (2013.01); H04N 1/00427 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3281 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a print engine;
a user interface;
a memory interface having a port configured to receive a portable memory removably attached thereto; and
a controller configured to:
perform a storage printing process comprising:
storing print data corresponding to received job data in a dedicated memory, the dedicated memory being a portable memory set as a storage destination to store the print data in the storage printing process when attached to the port set as a dedicated port; and
causing the print engine to perform printing according to the print data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via the user interface;
prior to the storage printing process, store identification information in a portable memory attached to the port, thereby setting the portable memory as the dedicated memory;
in response to a target portable memory being attached to the port, determine whether the target portable memory is set as the dedicated memory, based on whether the identification information is stored in the target portable memory;
when determining that the target portable memory is set as the dedicated memory, cause the user interface to display a first screen configured to receive an instruction to specify the storage destination for the print data; and
when determining that the target portable memory is not set as the dedicated memory, cause the user interface to display a second screen.