Patent ID: 9521273
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An information processing device, comprising: a communication circuit; a storage circuit; a communications control circuit that accepts on or more print job received from outside via the communication circuit; a spool circuit that causes the storage circuit to store one or more pieces of document data, the one or more pieces of document data being each included in the accepted one or more print job; a RIP processing circuit that rasterizes the stored one or more pieces of document data to generate one or more pieces of rasterized data, the one or more pieces of rasterized data corresponding to the stored one or more pieces of document data, respectively; a matching circuit that performs matching processing of the generated one or more pieces of rasterized data; and a grouping circuit that groups pieces of rasterized data, corresponding to different places of document data, with an identical content among the one or more pieces of rasterized data based on the result of the matching processing; wherein the communications control circuit transmits the grouped one or more pieces of rasterized data to an image forming apparatus by each of the groups via the communication circuit, wherein the grouping circuit generates any one of pieces of rasterized data to indicate the content and count information to indicate a count of the pieces of rasterized data constituting the group when the grouping circuit groups the rasterized data, corresponding to the different pieces of document data, with the identical content, and wherein the communications control circuit transmits the generated one piece of rasterized data to indicate the content and the count information to indicate the count of the pieces of rasterized data constituting the group to the image forming apparatus by each of the groups.