US 11,900,001 B2
Method and apparatus for monitoring print jobs
Heng Wang, Zhuhai (CN); and Haixiong Li, Zhuhai (CN)
Assigned to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Zhuhai (CN)
Filed by Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd., Zhuhai (CN)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/951,526.
Claims priority of application No. 202111116769.6 (CN), filed on Sep. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0088832 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/126 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1287 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for monitoring print jobs, comprising:
monitoring queued jobs in a print spooler;
monitoring submission time of queued jobs, in response to that a queue time of a queued job of the queued jobs is greater than a first preset time, cancelling the queued job; and
determining whether a processing time of the queued job which has been delivered to an image forming apparatus from the queued jobs exceeds a second preset time, in response to that the processing time exceeds the second preset time, determining the queued job which has been delivered to the image forming apparatus is processed abnormally, and removing the queued job which has been delivered to the image forming apparatus from the print spooler.