US 12,190,004 B2
Processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and method for determining whether to restrict execution of particular process
Taichiro Kimoto, Nagoya (JP); Shunsuke Minamikawa, Nagoya (JP); Koichi Tsugimura, Nagoya (JP); Yushi Deura, Nagoya (JP); and Yuki Kitahashi, Setagaya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Oct. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/487,300.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-166479 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0126488 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1239 (2013.01) [B41J 29/38 (2013.01); G06F 3/1222 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processing apparatus comprising:
a consumable receptacle configured to hold any of a first consumable and a second consumable, the first consumable being an exclusive consumable usable when the processing apparatus is in a contracted status where a delivery contract for consumables is in effect but unusable when the processing apparatus is in an uncontracted status where the delivery contract is not in effect, the second consumable being a non-exclusive consumable different from the exclusive consumable; and
a controller configured to:
determine whether the processing apparatus is in the contracted status or in a second status different from the first status;
in response to determining that the processing apparatus is in the first status, determine whether a specific condition for execution of a first particular process using the non-exclusive consumable is satisfied, when the non-exclusive consumable is held in the consumable receptacle; and
determine whether to allow or restrict the execution of the first particular process using the non-exclusive consumable depending on whether the specific condition is satisfied, thereby allowing the execution of the first particular process in response to determining that the specific condition is satisfied, whereas imposing a restriction on the execution of the first particular process in response to determining that the specific condition is not satisfied.