US 7,533,200 B2
Printer, processing method, program, and storage medium
Tsutomu Kubota, Kawasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/303,886.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-369434 (JP), filed on Dec. 21, 2004; and application No. 2005-330249 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0136616 A1, Jun. 22, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 710—36  [358/1.14; 358/1.15; 709/225; 709/229] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer configured to communicate with an external information processing apparatus, the printer capable of performing plural kinds of processing for data received from the external information processing apparatus, the printer comprising:
a storage device that stores permission setting information representing whether processing required in accordance with data received from the external information processing apparatus is permitted or not;
a processor that performs processing for the received data in accordance with the permission setting information stored in the storage device; and
a transmitter that transmits, in the case that processing required in accordance with the received data is not permitted, a message indicating that the required processing is not to be permitted and that another processing among the plural kinds of processing is to be permitted to the external information processing apparatus which send the data.