US 12,170,751 B2
Information processing device for processing printing job, information processing system for processing printing job, and information processing method for processing printing job
Yuji Mukai, Nagano (JP); Yasuhiro Oshima, Nagano (JP); and Yasuhiro Furuta, Shimosuwa-machi (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,261.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-058550 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319216 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/23 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/346 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1207 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); H04N 1/2376 (2013.01); H04N 1/344 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device comprising:
a first communicator that receives a printing job including user information;
a storage that stores the printing job received by the first communicator;
a second communicator that receives a printing request including the user information and identification information of a printing device; and
a processor that
spools the printing job to a virtual printer associated with the user information included in the printing job in response to acquiring the printing job from the first communicator,
determines whether there is a virtual printer associated with the user information included in the printing request in response to acquiring the printing request from the second communicator,
sets a destination of the printing job that has been spooled to the virtual printer to the printing device corresponding to the identification information of the printing device included in the printing request in response to determining that there is a virtual printer associated with the user information included in the printing request,
transmits the printing job to the printing device via the second communicator, and
manages printing usage information for each of one or more pieces of user information.