Patent ID: 8488151
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image input-output apparatus comprising: a job execution unit adapted to execute input jobs concerning input of an image, and output jobs concerning output of an image; a job event-recording unit adapted to record job events for input jobs and output jobs executed by the job execution unit, the job events for input jobs storing job attributes for the respective input jobs and image data included in the respective input jobs, and the job events for the output jobs storing job attributes for image data and a reference to the image data, instead of the image data itself, used by the respective output jobs; a job event transmission unit adapted to transmit the job events to a server; and a determination unit adapted to determine whether a job executed by the job execution unit is an input job or an output job, and, in a case that it is determined by the determination unit that the job executed by the job execution unit is the input job, whether or not image data input by the corresponding input job executed by the job execution unit is used in another job, wherein, if it is determined by the determination unit that the job executed by the job execution unit is the output job, the job event-recording unit is adapted to record a job event of the output job in association with a job event of an input job in which image data used in the output job is input, and the job event transmission unit is adapted to transmit the job event of the input job associated with the job event of the output job to the server together with the job event of the output job, and wherein, if it is determined by the determination unit that the job executed by the job execution unit is the input job, and if it is determined by the determination unit that the image data input by the corresponding input job is not used in another job, the job event-recording unit is adapted to not record a job event for the corresponding input job, and, consequently, the job-event-recording unit is adapted to not record the image data input by the corresponding input job or attributes for the corresponding input job, and the job event transmission unit is adapted to not transmit a job event for the corresponding input job to the server.