Patent 7948649 was granted and assigned to Samsung on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image-forming apparatus connectable to an external memory and an executed job-storing method thereof, which checks a stored data size of a job and an available memory size of the external memory, and proposes alternative options if the available memory size is insufficient, enabling a user to rapidly execute the job suitable for the user's purpose without any need to secure more memory space.