Patent ID: 6792485
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A data output control apparatus which is communicatively connected, via a network, to a portable terminal, carried by a user, that issues a data print request, and to a plurality of output terminals, provided at various locations, that print data, and which outputs, in response to the data print request from said portable terminal, data associated with the data print request to said output terminals, the data output control apparatus comprising:a data conversion device that converts the data associated with the data print request into data which can be printed by said output terminals; a selecting device that selects one of said output terminals; and an output device that outputs the data converted by said data conversion device to the output terminal selected by said selecting device, the data associated with the data print request being output to the data conversion device, which is a data conversion device that allows conversion of the data and corresponding to the output terminal selected by said selecting device.