公开(公告)号：US20170192727A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15314322

申请日：2015-06-02

Applicant: S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Tae-jung YUN ,  Jae-wook CHO ,  Hong-seock KIM ,  Chang-seok CHOI ,  Hye-soo KIM

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1296 ,  G06F3/1206 ,  G06F3/1211 ,  G06F3/1217 ,  G06F3/1226 ,  G06F3/1232 ,  G06F3/124 ,  G06F3/1261 ,  G06F3/1276 ,  G06F3/1291 ,  G06F3/1293 ,  G06F2206/1508

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus comprises: a storage unit which, from among a plurality of image forming apparatuses, stores information about at least one other image forming apparatus which constitutes a virtual device and an image forming apparatus; a communication unit for performing communication with the at least one other image forming apparatus; a user interface unit for displaying a UI screen including an object corresponding to the virtual device; a task processing unit; and a control unit which, when a virtual device is selected through the UI screen and a job execution command is inputted, controls the task processing unit to process at least one first task among a plurality of tasks constituting one job, requests the at least one other image forming apparatus to process at least one second task among a plurality of tasks, and distributes the job.

公开(公告)号：US20170192724A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15314352

申请日：2015-03-23

Applicant: S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sung-jae KIM ,  Jae-wook CHO ,  Hong-seock KIM ,  Mi-kyung CHOI ,  Chang-seok CHOI

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1213 ,  G06F3/1212 ,  G06F3/1229 ,  G06F3/1276 ,  G06F3/1285 ,  G06F3/1296 ,  H04N1/00885

Abstract: A host device is disclosed. The host device comprises: an input unit for receiving a control command for performing a preset event; a communication interface unit for communicating with an image forming device; and a control unit for transmitting, to the image forming device via the communication interface unit, a state change command for changing an operating state of the image forming device and performing the preset event corresponding to the received control command, if the received control command is a command related to controlling the image forming device.