Patent ID: 9367275
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A printing system comprising: a printing control server that associates a printing device with a user information that specifies a user and administers the printing device as being associated with the user information, the user information being used to access a posting service in which a posting data is published and shared between a posting user posting the posting data and a receiving user to whom the posting data is addressed, acquires the posting data that corresponds to the user information and is transmitted from a service offering server that provides the posting service, via network, using the user information, sends print data based on the posting data to the printing device via a network and controls the printing device associated with the user information of the user of the acquired posting data to perform printing based on the print data automatically in response to acquiring of the posting data, according to posting of the posting data to the posting service by the user as an instruction of printing, receives, after sending the print data created based on the posting data, at least one of notifications including a receipt notification indicating a receipt of a print instruction, a completion notification indicating completion of printing, and an error notification indicating occurrence of a print error from the printing device, and posts a content of the at least one of the notifications received to the service offering server addressing the user of the terminal which is an origin of the posting data or the user of the printing device that printed the posting data.