Patent ID: 11972313
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A work estimating method executed by an information processing apparatus for estimating work related to printing, comprising the steps of:
acquiring a job for estimation, wherein the job comprises a plurality of page data;
calculating an estimation of the work for each specific unit, of a plurality of specific units, of the job that is acquired, wherein each specific unit, of the plurality of specific units, is a respective page data of the plurality of page data comprised by the job;
estimating and updating the estimation of the work for the entire job in real time by accumulating, with prior calculated estimations of specific units of the plurality of specific units, the estimation of the work for a specific unit of the plurality of specific units, at the time the estimation of the work for the specific unit is calculated; and
presenting the estimation of the work that is calculated in real time.