Patent ID: 11934724
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method of calculating a density near a recording apparatus including
a receiver receiving recording data transmitted from a user,
a recording section performing recording on a medium using the recording data,
a storage section temporarily storing the recording data until the recording is finished,
an output tray to which the medium with the recording finished is outputted, and
a computer calculating a density near the recording apparatus, where the density is a probability indicating a size of a value of a number of users predicted to congregate near the recording apparatus, the method comprising:
causing the computer to select recording data, based on information concerning a user who transmitted the recording data; and
causing the computer to calculate, based on information concerning the recording data selected and a first elapsed time, which is an elapsed time since the recording data were transmitted, the density.