US 11,722,618 B2
System for image forming apparatus
Ryoji Ban, Ama (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/537,356.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-198809 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0174171 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00938 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00307 (2013.01); H04N 1/00424 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising
a controller configured to provide a mobile terminal with download information, the download information being necessary information for causing the mobile terminal to download a first application into the mobile terminal and start up the first application in the mobile terminal, the first application being executed by the mobile terminal to send an instruction to the image forming apparatus,
the first application being a part of a second application, the second application being operable as an independent application in the mobile terminal by being installed into the mobile terminal, and
the first application being operable in the mobile terminal without being installed in the mobile terminal,
wherein the controller is configured to provide first URL information as the download information, the first URL information indicating a URL for accessing a first external apparatus equipped outside the image forming apparatus,
wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:
access the first external apparatus based on the first URL information;
obtain second URL information from the first external apparatus, the second URL information indicating a URL for accessing a second external apparatus equipped outside the image forming apparatus;
access the second external apparatus based on the second URL information; and download the first application from the second external apparatus,
wherein as for the second URL information, a plurality of the URLs different from each other is set according to a type of the mobile terminal, and
wherein based on the mobile terminal accessing the first external apparatus based on the first URL information, the first external apparatus is configured to:
determine whether the mobile terminal is a first type of a mobile terminal; and
in a case it is determined that the mobile terminal is the first type of a mobile terminal, transmit, to the mobile terminal, the second URL information indicating the URL corresponding to the first type of the mobile terminal.