Patent ID: 7315889
Filing Date: 2008-01-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printer server to which one or more printers are connected via radio, comprising: plurality of print queues, each of which corresponds to one of the printers, wherein a print data transmitted from a computer is stored in one of the plurality of print queues; a print queue manager which transmits the print data stored in one of the print queues to one of the printers corresponding to one of the plurality of print queues via the radio according to print completion of the one of the printers; a communication performance list generator which performs inspection of the radio received from the one or more printers to check communication conditions between the printer server and the one or more printers, and which generates a communication performance list in which at least one of the one or more printers and the plurality of print queues are sorted according to at least a result of the inspection; a communication performance list transmitter which transmits the communication performance list to the computer; a special print queue which does not correspond to a specific printer, wherein a print data transmitted from the computer is stored in the special print queue and the print queue manager transmits the print data stored in the special print queue to one of the printers which is best in communication conditions; and a print data receiver which receives a print data transmitted from the computer and stores it in the one of the plurality of print queues or the special print queue which has been designated by the computer in accordance with the communication performance list, wherein the communication performance list generator classifies the checked communication conditions into a plurality of ranks and sorts the one or more printers and the plurality of print queues according to the ranks.