Patent ID: 8081330
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A data outputting apparatus, comprising: a box capable of storing input data files in a sorted manner which have been received from a plurality of users; an outputting portion for outputting the data files stored in the box; a data file number setting portion for setting a number of data files expected to be received from each of the plurality of users; a time setting portion for setting an output initiation time at which the data files stored in the box are forcibly output even if the number of data files stored in the box has not reached the set number of data files for each user, and a notification time before the output initiation time, and a controller for making the outputting portion output the data files stored in the box when the number of data files stored in the box has reached the set number of data files for each user; a judgment portion for judging, for each of the plurality of users, if the box has received the number of data files set for the respective user; wherein, if the judgment portion determines that the box has not received the set number of data files from each of the plurality of users at the notification time, the controller notifies at least each of the plurality of users for whom the judgment portion has determined that the box has not received the set number of data files from the respective user that data files are lacking, and wherein the controller makes the outputting portion output the data files stored in the box when it gets to the set output initiation time even if the number of data files stored in the box has not yet reached the set number of data files for each user.