Patent ID: 7958278
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a job execution portion; a connecting portion configured to detachably connect to an external storage; a detection portion configured to detect a connection of the external storage to the connecting portion; a stored information reading portion configured to read information stored in the external storage based on the connection detection of the external storage by the detection portion; an internal storage portion configured to store the information read from the external storage as a processing wait job when the job execution portion is executing another job and configured to store the information read from the external storage as a normal job when the job execution portion is not executing another job in response to the information being read by the stored information reading portion, wherein the stored information in the internal storage portion includes image data to be processed by the job execution portion; and a job administration portion configured to automatically register the information read from the external storage as the normal job and control the job execution portion to execute the normal job when the job execution portion is not executing another job and configured to automatically register the information read from the external storage as the processing wait job without executing the processing wait job when the job execution portion is executing another job.