Patent ID: 9224073
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A data processor bi-directionally communicably connected to a host device, the data processor comprising: a process-executing unit configured to execute a prescribed printing process in response to a process-requested file being written into a prescribed folder; and a progress-status-saving unit configured to save, in a memory, progress status data having a prescribed filename in a prescribed folder having a prescribed folder name, wherein the progress status data describes a progress status of the prescribed printing process and the prescribed filename includes a string of characters having a meaning indicating a progress status of the prescribed printing process being executed to the process-requested file, and wherein the prescribed folder is included within a plurality of folders and the progress status of the prescribed printing process is classified into a plurality of categories, and wherein each of the plurality of folders identifies a different possible category of progress status the progress-status-saving unit saves the progress status data in a folder selected from among the plurality of folders identified by a category of the progress status from among the plurality of categories.