US 12,238,254 B2
File provision system, file generation apparatus, and file provision method
Yuichi Kawai, Ishikawa (JP); and Hisamichi Kobayashi, Ishikawa (JP)
Assigned to PFU LIMITED, Ishikawa (JP)
Filed by PFU LIMITED, Ishikawa (JP)
Filed on May 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/318,529.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-090077 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0396723 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/44 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/4413 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00209 (2013.01); H04N 1/00482 (2013.01); H04N 1/32106 (2013.01); H04N 1/444 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3269 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3273 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A file provision system comprising:
a file generation apparatus configured to generate a data file; and
a file relay apparatus configured to receive the data file from the file generation apparatus and transmit the data file to a user terminal based on a verification result,
wherein the file generation apparatus includes first circuitry configured to:
display information to be scanned by the user terminal, the information including i) a device identification of the file generation apparatus and ii) an access destination of the file relay apparatus; and
transmit the device identification of the file generation apparatus to the file relay apparatus,
wherein the file relay apparatus includes second circuitry configured to:
receive, from the user terminal upon the user terminal scanning the displayed information and establishing communication with the file relay apparatus using the access destination included in the displayed information, the device identification of the file generation apparatus;
verify that the device identification received from the file generation apparatus matches the device identification received from the user terminal; and
in response to verifying that the device identification received from the file generation apparatus matches the device identification received from the user terminal, transmit the data file received from the file generation apparatus to the user terminal, and
wherein the second circuitry of the file relay apparatus is configured to delete the data file received from the file generation apparatus after the second circuitry of the file relay apparatus transmits the data file to the user terminal.