Patent ID: 8395799
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising a client terminal, a data management system, and an output device, which can communicate with one another when communication is initiated by the client terminal or the output device, the output device comprising: a ticket issuing unit configured to issue a print ticket associated with a print instruction; a print target data request control unit configured to make a print target data request with the print ticket attached thereto to the data management system; and an output unit configured to output print target data acquired from the data management system as a response to the print target data request, and the data management system comprising: a data storage unit configured to keep data; a script generation unit configured to generate a script to be executed by the client terminal to allow a user to input the print instruction; a request management unit configured to accept the print target data request from the output device, temporally to defer the response to the print target data request, and to perform control so that the response to the print target data request is made after print target data designation; a user authentication unit configured to specify the user; an access right determination unit configured to determine an access right of the user with respect to the kept data; a request search unit configured to search for a print target data request corresponding to the print ticket attached to a print request from the client terminal from among print target data requests with respect to which a response has been deferred; a corresponding document designation unit configured to, in the case where the access right determination unit performs access right determination with respect to data designated by the print request and determines that access is permitted, designate the data designated by the print request as print target data requested by the corresponding print target data request; and a sending unit configured to send the print target data designated by the corresponding document designation unit to the output device as the response to the print target data request, wherein the script generated by the data management system is executed by the client terminal and sends the print instruction to an output device designated by the user, and sends the print ticket issued by the output device together with information indicating data to be printed to the data management system as the print request.