Patent ID: 8305606
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A job management system comprising: plural output devices, each of the plural output devices being configured to perform an output job; and a job management apparatus that transmits jobs to the plural output devices without having to register device information about each of the plural output devices, wherein the job management apparatus includes a job managing unit that stores therein one or more jobs requested by client terminals and to be performed; a job-information managing unit that creates a job-information list including job identification data identifying the one or more jobs stored in the job managing unit and to be performed; a feeder that converts the job-information list to public data in an RSS format to be transmitted to the plural output devices, and stores the public data, the public data including the job identification data identifying the one or more jobs to be performed; a first receiving unit that receives, from one of the plural output devices, a transmission request for a specific job in the job-information list; and a first transmitting unit that transmits, in response to the transmission request, the specific job from the job managing unit to the plural output devices, and each output device of the plural output devices includes a reader that receives the public data from the job management apparatus, and creates the job-information list based on the public data; a specifying unit that determines whether the job identification data identifying the one or more jobs to be performed is included in the job-information list, and in a case that the job identification data is included in the job-information list, specifies a job to be retrieved from the job management apparatus, from the one or more jobs identified by the job identification data; a second transmitting unit that transmits a transmission request for the job specified by the specifying unit to the job management apparatus; and a second receiving unit that receives the specified job from the job managing unit of the job management apparatus.