Patent ID: 11900000
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming device comprising:
an image forming engine; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to:
send an inquiry request to a server and receive a response to the inquiry request from the server,
wherein in a case where the response from the server is a job execution response, the job execution response indicating that a job is to be executed, send a next inquiry request to the server after a first time interval elapses after the job execution response is received by the image forming device;
wherein in a case where the job execution response is received from the server, control the image forming engine to start image forming; and
wherein in a case where the response is-received from the server is not the job execution response, send a next inquiry request to the server after a second time interval elapses after the response that is not the job execution response is received by the image forming device, the second time interval being longer than the first time interval,
wherein in a case where the response from the server is a job stop response to the image forming device, the job stop response indicating that the job is to be stopped,
control the image forming engine to stop image forming.