IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: KUNO TAKASUKE, KAWAMURA YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.11.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image formation apparatus which can surely refund the charge of an unexecuted job out of the charge collected from a user with the previous online payment.SOLUTION: An image formation apparatus 1 calculates a charging amount for a job before starting the job. The image formation apparatus requests payment processing for the charging amount to a server 3 performing the payment processing. The image formation apparatus 1 executes the job when the payment processing for the charging amount is performed. The image formation apparatus 1 requests refund of a difference between the charging amount and the charging amount for the executed job of the jobs to the server 3 when the image formation apparatus receives the operation of turning off the power supply switch of the image formation apparatus in a state where the execution of the job is interrupted. The image formation apparatus 1 is shut down after the refund of the difference is requested to the server 3.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5 【課題】事前のオンライン決済によりユーザーから徴収した料金のうち、未実施のジョブの料金を確実にユーザーに返すことが可能な画像形成装置を得る。【解決手段】画像形成装置１は、ジョブを開始する前に、ジョブに対する課金額を計算する。画像形成装置は、決済処理を行うサーバー３に対して、課金額の決済処理を要求する。画像形成装置１は、課金額の決済処理がなされたことを条件に、ジョブを実行する。画像形成装置１は、ジョブの実行が中断している状態で、画像形成装置の電源スイッチをオフする操作を画像形成装置が受け付けると、課金額とジョブのうち実行済みのジョブに対する課金額との差額の返金を、サーバー３に対して要求する。画像形成装置１は、差額の返金がサーバー３に対して要求された後に、シャットダウンする。【選択図】図５