US 12,260,132 B2
Printing system and method
Keiko Kamoi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/053,689.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-184541 (JP), filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0153039 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1203 (2013.01) [G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1274 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first printing system configured to cooperate with a second printing system, the first printing system comprising:
a storage; and
one or more processors capable of executing instructions causing the first printing system to:
manage print data for each user in the storage;
receive a first request relating to printing by a first printing apparatus;
transmit, to the first printing apparatus, first print data corresponding to a first user that is an issuer of the first request so that the first printing apparatus prints the first print data;
receive a second request including configuration information about a second printing apparatus from a client terminal in which an application program for the first printing system has been installed, the configuration information indicating that the second printing apparatus does not support a polling mechanism for the first printing system; and
transmit, based on the configuration information indicating that the second printing apparatus does not support the polling mechanism for the first printing system, to the second printing system managing the second printing apparatus corresponding to the configuration information, second print data corresponding to a second user that is an issuer of the second request so that the second printing apparatus specified by the configuration information prints the second print data to be received from the second printing system,
wherein the second request is issued by the application program in response to an acquisition of the configuration information by the application program based on an operation for selecting the second printing apparatus using the client terminal by the second user.