Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having a plurality of ports to which portable memory is attachable, and computer-readable medium and method for the same
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Application No.: US17558833Application Date: 2021-12-22
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Publication No.: US11989464B2Publication Date: 2024-05-21
- Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC
- Priority: JP 21000476 2021.01.05
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a storage printing process that includes storing print data in a dedicated memory, which is a portable memory set as a storage destination to store the print data in the storage printing process when attached to a dedicated port among a plurality of ports, and causing a print engine to perform printing according to the print data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via a user interface, prior to the storage printing process, set one of the plurality of ports as the dedicated port, in response to a portable memory being attached to a port, determine whether the portable memory is the dedicated memory and the port is the dedicated port, and provide a notification when determining that the portable memory is the dedicated memory but the port is not the dedicated port.
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