Patent ID: 9591150
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A pull printing system comprising: a server computer connected with a plurality of local area networks (LANs) via a wide area network; a computer connected to each of the plurality of LANs; a manager image forming apparatus connected to each of the plurality of LANs; and a client image forming apparatus connected to each of the plurality of LANs; wherein the server computer executes authentication of a user based on authentication information of the user; the computer transmits a print job to the manager image forming apparatus; the manager image forming apparatus manages the print job transmitted from the computer; the client image forming apparatus performs the print job managed by the manager image forming apparatus; the manager image forming apparatus performs the print job received to a first port number, and manages the print job received to a second port number different from the first port number in association with the user; the computer sets the second port number input by the user and used when communicating with the manager image forming apparatus via a Raw protocol; the client image forming apparatus accepts the authentication information input by the user, and transmits the authentication information input by the user to the manager image forming apparatus; the manager image forming apparatus transmits the authentication information from the client image forming apparatus to the server computer, and transmits the print job to the client image forming apparatus, the print job being associated with the user authenticated by the server computer based on the authentication information transmitted to the server computer from the manager image forming apparatus, among the print jobs managed by the manager image forming apparatus; the computer assigns commands for printer job language of the print job transmitted to the second port number in the manager image forming apparatus; the commands include a first command that indicates a login user name, a second command that indicates a login password, a third command that indicates a job name, and a fourth command that sets at least one of a duplex printing setting, the number of pages, and a color mode; and the manager image forming apparatus extracts information of the login user name and the login password from the commands, transmits the information of the login user name and the login password to the computer server, and manages the print job transmitted to the second port number when the information of the login user name and the login password are authenticated by the server computer.