Patent ID: 8456680
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printer network system including a client device and a server device connected to the client device via a network, the server device comprising: a virtual print processor unit to receive a request of a print job from an application unit of the client device and generate, in response to the request, image data as intermediate data of the print job and job definition data that define print settings of the print job; and an exclusive access control unit to control exclusively writing and reading of the image data and the job definition data to and from a storage unit, the client device comprising: an output condition control unit to determine one of output destinations meeting conditional information in accordance with predetermined rules; and a delivering unit to acquire the job definition data and the image data by communicating with the exclusive access control unit of the server device, select a printer driver corresponding to the determined output destination, and transmit a print command to the printer driver, wherein the exclusive access control unit updates a flag to indicate that writing of the intermediate data of the print job generated by the virtual print processor unit is completed, and the exclusive access control unit completes, in response to a data acquisition request from the delivering unit of the client device, transmission of the job definition data and the image data to the delivering unit after an end of writing of the intermediate data.