US 11,989,464 B2
Image forming apparatus having a plurality of ports to which portable memory is attachable, and computer-readable medium and method for the same
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. 17/558,833.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-000476 (JP), filed on Jan. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0214840 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1205 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1258 (2013.01); G06F 3/1279 (2013.01); G06F 3/1284 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/088 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a print engine;
a user interface;
a memory interface having a plurality of ports, each port being 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 a dedicated port among the plurality of ports; 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, set one of the plurality of ports as the dedicated port;
in response to a target portable memory being attached to one of the plurality of ports, determine whether the target portable memory is the dedicated memory and the port to which the target portable memory has been attached is the dedicated port; and
provide a notification when determining that the target portable memory is the dedicated memory but the port to which the target portable memory has been attached is not the dedicated port; and
after providing the notification, set as the dedicated port the port to which the dedicated memory is currently attached.