Patent ID: 9026642
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A processing apparatus comprising: a communication unit configured to perform communication via a network; a packet acquisition unit configured to acquire packets flowing through the network; a printing unit configured to perform printing based on a print job received by the communication unit; a holding unit configured to hold printing history information of the printing performed by said printing unit, the printing history information including at least address information of the processing apparatus and address information of an external apparatus as a transmission source of the print job; and a creation unit configured to create, based on the the address information of the processing apparatus and the address information of the external apparatus in the printing history information held by said holding unit, a selection condition under which packets to be acquired by said packet acquisition unit are selected, wherein said packet acquisition unit acquires the packets flowing through the network based on the selection condition created by said creation unit.