US 12,131,083 B2
Server system for acquiring information indicating an amount of a consumable to be used in a printer
Kazuyuki Saito, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/153,097.
Application 18/153,097 is a continuation of application No. 17/404,315, filed on Aug. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,579,823.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-141122 (JP), filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0168849 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/1229 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server system comprising:
one or more processors that acquires information indicating an amount of a consumable item which is used in a printing process based on print data transmitted to a printer,
wherein the one or more processors acquire identification information for identifying a user who instructs the printing process; and
wherein the one or more processors receive selection of a first service or a second service by a user; and
a communicator that transmits, in a case where the first service is selected, billing information for a cost of execution of the printing process to a transmission destination corresponding to the user, the billing information being generated based on the acquired information,
wherein the communicator transmits, in a case where the second service is selected, delivery request information for requesting to deliver a consumable item, to the transmission destination corresponding to the user, the delivery request information including a delivery destination address of the consumable item.