US 12,079,522 B2
Printing system, management server system, and control method for registering first printer and second printer information in first and second server systems
Tetsuya Shiohara, Kanagawa (JP); and Keiji Kawasaki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/853,461.
Application 17/853,461 is a continuation of application No. 17/404,593, filed on Aug. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,392,330.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-142846 (JP), filed on Aug. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0326891 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1204 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1255 (2013.01); G06F 3/1257 (2013.01); G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1287 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); H04N 1/4406 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. A printing system comprising:
a first server system; and
a management server system,
the first server system comprising:
a registration unit configured to, based on an instruction from a user, register first information related to a first printing apparatus into the first server system,
the management server system comprising:
a control unit configured to, based on an instruction from a user, store, into a storage unit, third information that is information for associating the first printing apparatus with a second printing apparatus,
wherein second information related to the second printing apparatus is registered into a second server system which is different from the first server system and different from the management server system, and
wherein a print job output from an information processing apparatus having received a print instruction from the user is transmitted to the first printing apparatus via the first server system and the second server system, based on the third information.