Patent ID: 9317231
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A printing system comprising: a printing apparatus; a file server which stores a file; and a job server, wherein the printing apparatus includes a token acquisition unit configured to acquire a token for indicating the printing apparatus and a connection port of the printing apparatus from the job server, and a print request transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the file server, a print request for the file stored by the file server and the token acquired by the token acquisition unit, wherein the file server includes a print request receiving unit configured to receive, from the printing apparatus, the print request and the token which are transmitted by the print request transmitting unit, and a file transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the job server, the file corresponding to the print request which is received by the print request receiving unit and the token which is received by the print request receiving unit, wherein the job server includes a file receiving unit configured to receive, from the file server, the file and the token which are transmitted by the file transmitting unit, a determining unit configured to determine whether the token is valid, a converting unit configured to convert the file to print data which is able to be processed by the printing apparatus, and a print data transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the printing apparatus, the print data converted by the converting unit in a case where the determining unit determines that the token is valid, wherein the printing apparatus further includes a print data receiving unit configured to receive, from the job server, the print data via the connection port indicated by the token, and a print unit configured to perform printing based on the print data received by the print data receiving unit.