Cloud system and method of displaying, by cloud system, content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10212110-B2
Application number	US-201514803182-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2015
Priority date	Aug 13, 2014
Publication date	Feb 19, 2019
Grant date	Feb 19, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a system for providing a cloud service for display, the system including: an image forming apparatus configured to generate scan data including scanning a document and assign a display device to which the scan data is to be transmitted through a chat room; a cloud configured to receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus and transmit the scan data to the display device; and the display device, wherein the display device is configured to display the scan data received from the cloud.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
an image forming apparatus to:
display a chat room in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating, the at least one device participating in the chat room including a display device,
generate scan data by scanning a document, and
assign the display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room;

a cloud to:
receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus,
determine, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device, and
transmit one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and

the display device to display the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud,
wherein
the cloud comprises a print service server having a representational state transfer application programming interface (REST API) module for an agent application installed in the display device and operable to communicate with the cloud, wherein the print service server is to receive network address information and nickname information of the display device from the display device and register the network address information and nickname information.

2. A method, comprising:
generating, via an image forming apparatus having a scanner to scan a document, scan data by a controller of the image forming apparatus controlling the scanner to scan the document;
generating, by a cloud, a chat room and assigning one of a public attribute and a private attribute for the chat room, such that when the cloud assigns the chat room the public attribute, anonymous participants are allowed to participate in the chat room, and when the cloud assigns the chat room the private attribute, only predetermined participants are allowed to participate in the chat room;
displaying, via an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, the chat room generated by the cloud using a chat room application executed by the controller, in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating;
assigning, via the operation panel of the image forming apparatus, a display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room, wherein the at least one device participating in the chat room comprises the display device;
receiving, via the cloud, the scan data and information about the display device from the image forming apparatus;
determining, via the cloud, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device;
transmitting, via the cloud, one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and
displaying, via the display device, the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising sharing, via the image forming apparatus, the scan data with the at least one device participating in the chat room through the chat room.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising storing, via the cloud, the scan data in a storage server when the scan data is received, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a uniform resource locator (URL) address corresponding to an address of a directory of the storage server in which the scan data is stored, to the display device.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the storage server comprises Riak cloud storage (CS) and a database.

6. The method of claim 2 , comprising, when the display device is not logged in to the chat room, inviting the display device to log in to the chat room.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the cloud includes a print service server receiving the scan data from the image forming apparatus, a Riak cloud storage (CS), and a database, and
the method further comprises:
analyzing, by the print service server, the scan data and controlling metadata of the scan data to be stored in the Riak CS and controlling the scan data to be stored in the database, based on the analyzing.

8. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
storing, in a storage server of the cloud, a history of content shared in the chat room;
providing, by the storage server, the history of content shared in the chat room in response to a request from at least one of the account corresponding to the image forming apparatus or the at least one account corresponding to the at least one device; and
displaying, on at least one of the operation panel of the image forming apparatus or the display device, information about the history of content shared in the chat room, the information about the history of content shared in the chat room including at least one of a file name of the content shared in the chat room, time information about a time when the content was shared in the chat room, capacity information of the content shared in the chat room, or information about participants in the chat room when the content was shared in the chat room.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 2 .

10. A system, comprising:
an image forming apparatus to:
display a chat room in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating, the at least one device participating in the chat room including a display device,
generate scan data by scanning a document, and
assign the display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room;

a cloud to:
generate the chat room and assign one of a public attribute and a private attribute for the chat room, such that when the cloud assigns the chat room the public attribute, anonymous participants are allowed to participate in the chat room, and when the cloud assigns the chat room the private attribute, only predetermined participants are allowed to participate in the chat room,
receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus,
determine, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device, and
transmit one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and

the display device to display the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein
the display capability of the display device includes a screen resolution capability of the display device, and
when the cloud determines the display device cannot display the scan data based on the screen resolution capability of the display device, the cloud is to convert the scan data to another format having a resolution that is displayable by the display device, based on the screen resolution capability of the display device.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the cloud is to receive, from the image forming apparatus, information for assigning at least one target device for displaying the scan data, wherein the at least one target device comprises the display device.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the image forming appar

Assignees

• S Printing Solution Co Ltd
• Hp Printing Korea Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sung-Woo
• Yoon Mu-Hy
• Choi Hwan-Joon
• Hwang Ki-Young
• Just Adam
• Traverso Dario
• Dantwala Nehal
• Parihar Vishal

Classifications

• H04L12/1813

  for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms (instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L12/1827

  Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation · CPC title

• H04L51/06

  Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements · CPC title

• H04N21/8153

  comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image · CPC title

• H04N2201/0093

  Facsimile machine (H04N2201/0094 takes precedence) · CPC title