US 12,248,712 B2
Printing system to display object selection, printing method, and storage medium
Daisuke Shibata, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/179,747.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-037902 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0289106 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1204 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1253 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system comprising:
a printing apparatus,
wherein the printing apparatus is configured to print, based on a file, an image on a sheet;
a server,
wherein the server is configured to select one or more files; and
an information processing apparatus,
wherein a chat application installed in the information processing apparatus is configured to display one or more objects corresponding to the selected one or more files on a display, and the selected one or more files are registered on a print candidate list that is generated with priority estimation of the print candidate list,
wherein the chat application installed in the information processing apparatus is configured to display, based on selection of an object from the displayed one or more objects, a plurality of objects corresponding to a plurality of files similar to a file corresponding to the object selected from the displayed one or more objects, the plurality of files similar to the file corresponding to the object selected from the displayed one or more objects are searched for a similar file to a printed file written in print history from the print candidate list, and the plurality of files are displayed in an order determined based on a file format and a file name of a respective file of the plurality of files, and
wherein the printing apparatus is configured to print, based on a file selected from the plurality of files similar to the file corresponding to the object selected from the displayed one or more objects, an image on a sheet.