User terminal apparatus and method of controlling thereof

US8994973B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8994973-B2
Application numberUS-201313956473-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateAug 1, 2013
Priority dateOct 23, 2012
Publication dateMar 31, 2015
Grant dateMar 31, 2015

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A user terminal apparatus to connect to an image forming apparatus having a scan function to be driven on an operating system of Windows 8™ includes a storage to store a metro application which displays a user interface window to receive a command to perform a scan job and a V4 driver to communicate with the image forming apparatus, a user interface to perform the scan job of the image forming apparatus by utilizing the user interface window provided by the metro application, if the metro application implements, a communicating interface to request and receive address information of the image forming apparatus by utilizing the V4 driver, and a controller to control the communicating interface to transmit the command to perform the scan job to the image forming apparatus based on the received address information and to receive the scan data corresponding to the command to perform the scan job.

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What is claimed is: 1. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute a method of connecting a user terminal apparatus to an image forming apparatus having a scan function and which is driven by a hybrid operating system (O/S) that supports different types of a plurality of user interface (UI), the plurality of UI having a desktop style UI and a metro style UI and when the user terminal apparatus is operated in the metro st…

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What does patent US8994973B2 cover?
A user terminal apparatus to connect to an image forming apparatus having a scan function to be driven on an operating system of Windows 8™ includes a storage to store a metro application which displays a user interface window to receive a command to perform a scan job and a V4 driver to communicate with the image forming apparatus, a user interface to perform the scan job of the image forming …
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04N1/00204. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 31 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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