Devices, systems, and methods for communicating with an image-forming device from a mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9201622-B2
Application number	US-201414265041-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2014
Priority date	Apr 29, 2014
Publication date	Dec 1, 2015
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for device communication receive, at a proxy device, an image of a barcode that was sent from a mobile device, wherein the barcode includes device information for an image-forming device, and wherein the device information identifies a network of the image-forming device; send the device information from the proxy device to one or more support devices; and at the one or more support devices, determine if the respective support device is connected to the network of the image-forming device, and in response to determining that the respective support device is connected to the network of the image-forming device, generate an output queue for the image-forming device on the support device that is connected to the network of the image-forming device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for device communication, the method comprising:
receiving, at a proxy device, device information that was sent from a mobile device, wherein the device information includes network information of an image-forming device and was extracted from a barcode captured by the mobile device;
sending the device information from the proxy device to one or more support devices; and
at the one or more support devices,
determining if the image-forming devic…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Armstrong Charles Thomas

Classifications

• G06F3/1292 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/126

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1204

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1236

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1226

  Physics · mapped topic