US 11,736,645 B2
Print processing system that transmits print data from terminal device to one of plurality of image forming apparatuses, according to information written in memory of mobile device
Carl Christian Ray Pantin, Osaka (JP); Deniel Molina, Osaka (JP); Icel Ann Rodriguez, Osaka (JP); Jesus Jovannie John Burgos, Osaka (JP); John James Gutib, Osaka (JP); John Mathew Cabido, Osaka (JP); Matthew Grafilo, Osaka (JP); Melvin Gaviola, Jr., Osaka (JP); Nixon Segarra, Jr., Osaka (JP); Rodney Omangayon, Osaka (JP); and Shiela Mae Quimbo, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/872,740.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-128559 (JP), filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0041728 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/32122 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00307 (2013.01); H04N 1/4413 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3205 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A print processing system comprising:
a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
a terminal device; and
a mobile device including a memory,
wherein the terminal device includes:
a first communication device that communicates with each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses via a network;
a first wireless communication device that performs short-range wireless communication with the mobile device;
a storage device in which print data is stored; and
a first control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a first control program, as a first controller that transmits the print data to one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, via the first communication device,
the plurality of image forming apparatuses each include:
a second communication device that communicates with the terminal device, via the network;
a second wireless communication device that performs the short-range wireless communication with the mobile device;
an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium; and
a second control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a second control program, as a second controller that controls the image forming device, upon receipt of the print data via the second communication device, so as to form an image based on the print data, on the recording medium,
the first controller of the terminal device is capable of writing, via the first wireless communication device, information necessary for transmitting the print data in the memory of the mobile device, and the second controller of the image forming apparatus executes, upon reading out the necessary information written by the first controller from the memory of the mobile device, via the second wireless communication device, a first process necessary for transmitting the print data, and
the second controller of the image forming apparatus is capable of writing, via the second wireless communication device, the necessary information in the memory of the mobile device, and the first controller of the terminal device executes, upon reading out the necessary information written by the second controller from the memory of the mobile device, via the first wireless communication device, a second process necessary for transmitting the print data,
wherein the first controller of the terminal device writes a first address of the terminal device and an ID code for identifying the print data, in the memory of the mobile device via the first wireless communication device, as the necessary information,
the second controller of the image forming apparatus requests, upon reading out the first address and the ID code from the memory of the mobile device, via the second wireless communication device, the terminal device corresponding to the first address to transmit the print data indicated by the ID code, via the second communication device, as the first process, and
the first controller of the terminal device transmits the print data, upon receipt of the request via the first communication device, to the image forming apparatus that has made the request, via the first communication device.