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US 10,334,129 B2Granted
Method of printing and scanning
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsAhmad Younis, Tommy Yue
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Abstract
A multifunctional printer having a printer section, an auto document feeder, a scanner section, a print path, and a path guide. When the multifunctional printer is not in a print and scan mode, the path guide can move to a position that routes printed paper from the print path to a print output tray. When the multifunctional printer is not in a print and scan mode, the path guide can move to a position that routes printed paper from the print path to the auto document feeder, where it can be scanned.
Claims4
A method of printing and scanning paper and transmitting scanned representations to a server, comprising:
- receiving a print job and a destination identifier at a multifunctional printer from a local client device, the destination identifier being associated with a remote client device;
- printing according to the print job by conveying paper from a paper storage area at the multifunctional printer through a print path and printing information on the paper with printer components;
- routing paper from the print path into an auto document feeder connector path that conveys the paper to an auto document feeder;
- scanning the paper with one or more image sensors as the paper is conveyed through the auto document feeder to generate a scanned representation;
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- uploading the scanned representation from the multifunctional printer to a server over a network connection along with the destination identifier, such that the server makes the scanned representation available to the remote client device associated with the destination identifier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.