US 12,067,318 B2
Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium
Taishi Masumitsu, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/322,463.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-086419 (JP), filed on May 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0385003 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/126 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
at least one memory which stores a computer program; and
at least one processor which executes the computer program to
manage information about a subscription service related to the printing apparatus;
receive an instruction to execute processing of job data; and
control the printing apparatus in a case where a contract of a first subscription service in which a user purchases the printing apparatus and a vendor provides a recording agent has been concluded, under a predetermined condition,
not to execute the processing of the job data in which the provided recording agent is used, and
to execute the processing of the job data in which the provided recording agent is not used, and
in a case where a contract of a second subscription service in which a vendor provides both the printing apparatus and a recording agent has been concluded, under a predetermined condition,
not to execute the processing of the job data in which the provided recording agent is used, and
further not to execute the processing of the job data in which the provided recording agent is not used.