US 11,816,368 B2
Cloud printing method and cloud printing system
Jiade Li, Zhuhai (CN); Yuanzhu Xi, Zhuhai (CN); and Xinping Li, Zhuhai (CN)
Assigned to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Zhuhai (CN)
Filed by Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd., Zhuhai (CN)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,498.
Claims priority of application No. 202111263000.7 (CN), filed on Oct. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0140752 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1206 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1248 (2013.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.05); H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cloud printing method comprising:
in response to a click on a file in an application program of a client terminal to execute printing, receiving, by a cloud server, a print request sent by the client terminal;
generating, by the cloud server, a print job and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the print job based on the print request; and
starting, by the cloud server, a print microservice and publishing a print task to a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) microservice according to the print job;
wherein:
after a printer is connected to the cloud server, the printer is configured to send a print subscription request to the cloud server;
the MQTT microservice is configured to send the print task with the URL of the print job to the printer; and
the printer is further configured to download the print job from the cloud server based on the URL of the print job and print the print job.