Patent ID: 7215437
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A printing method using a server computer for a relay between one or more client computers and one or more printers that are connected to each other via a network, comprising the steps, executed by the server computer, of: receiving a printer secure communication session establishment request from a printer and establishing a printer secure communication session with the printer; receiving a client secure communication session establishment request from a client computer; establishing a client secure communication session with the client computer; receiving, from the client computer, a print job in which the printer is designated as an output destination printer; sending the received print job to the printer as the output destination printer; receiving, by the server computer, a registration request from the one or more printers and managing, as usable printers, the printers that have sent the registration request, wherein the printers managing step further comprises the server computer terminating the session with the printer if the server computer received a registration request from the printer and has not received any prescribed communications from the printer for a predetermined period.