# US 10,481,839 B2 · Communication system, mobile terminal, and device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,481,839 B2 - Document ID: US10481839B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/723,319 - Filed: 2017-10-03 - Published: 2018-04-12 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2016-10-07 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Applicants: Katsunori Suzuki - Inventors: Katsunori Suzuki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10481839B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/121: {Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted} - G06F 3/1222: {Increasing security of the print job} - G06F 3/1238: {Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs} - G06F 3/1244: {Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding} - G06F 3/1267: {Job repository, e.g. non-scheduled jobs, delay printing} - G06F 3/1285: {Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server} - G06F 3/1292: {Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing} - H04N 1/0023: {Image pull arrangements, e.g. to a multifunctional peripheral from a networked computer} - H04N 1/00244: {with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324)} - H04N 1/00307: {with a mobile telephone apparatus (constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00)} - H04L 67/1097: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] - H04M 1/72415: for remote control of appliances - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A communication system includes a mobile terminal; an information processing apparatus; and a device. The mobile terminal communicates with the information processing apparatus. The mobile terminal communicates with the device. The device communicates with the information processing apparatus. The mobile terminal includes a first processor executing a process including transmitting, by a first communication device, output data to be output by the device, to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting, by a second communication device, acquisition location specification information to the device, the acquisition location specification information specifying a location from which the output data is to be acquired by the device from the information processing apparatus. The device includes a second processor executing a process including receiving the acquisition location specification information from the mobile terminal; acquiring the output data from the information processing apparatus according to the acquisition location specification information; and outputting the output data. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A communication system comprising: a mobile terminal; and a device, wherein the mobile terminal and an information processing apparatus communicate with each other over a first communication network, the mobile terminal and the device communicate with each other over a second communication network, and the device and the information processing apparatus communicate with each other over a third communication network, wherein the mobile terminal includes a first processor, in communication with a first memory, executing a process including: transmitting, over the first communication network, output data to be output by the device, to the information processing apparatus, the output data being transmitted to the information processing apparatus upon accepting an instruction via a user interface displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal; and transmitting, over the second communication network, access information to the device, the access information specifying a communication destination of the information processing apparatus from which the output data is to be acquired by the device, and wherein the device includes a second processor, in communication with a second memory, executing a process including: receiving the access information from the mobile terminal; acquiring the output data from the information processing apparatus according to the access information specifying the communication destination of the information processing apparatus, the access information being acquired from the mobile terminal through the second communication network; and outputting the output data acquired from the information processing apparatus. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first communication network and the second communication network can be used at the same time or in parallel, by the mobile terminal. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the access information includes address information identifying the output data held by the information processing apparatus connected to the first communication network and the third communication network. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The communication system according to claim 3, wherein the access information further includes authentication information used for receiving authentication by the information processing apparatus, and wherein the acquiring of the output data by the device includes acquiring the output data from the information processing apparatus according to the access information, in response to the authentication performed based on the authentication information being successful. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first communication network uses a public line to transmit the output data to the information processing apparatus, and the second communication network uses short-range wireless communication to transmit the access information to the device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second processor included in the device executes the process further including: accepting a setting of a condition relating to whether to acquire the output data from the information processing apparatus; and acquiring the output data from the information processing apparatus, in response to the access information matching the condition. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The communication system according to claim 6, wherein the accepting of the setting of the condition by the device includes accepting the setting of information relating to a Uniform Resource Locator, URL, that that can be accessed by the device, or information relating to a URL that cannot be accessed by the device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the access information includes a URL, and the acquiring of the output data by the device includes acquiring the output data specified by the URL. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor included in the mobile terminal executes the process further including accepting a setting of the access information. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first memory included in the mobile terminal stores, in advance, communication information used for communicating with the information processing apparatus, the transmitting of the output data over by the first communication network by the mobile terminal includes transmitting, to the information processing apparatus, the output data that is identified by accepting a selection made by a user based on the communication information, and the transmitting of the access information over the second communication network by the mobile terminal includes transmitting the access information to the device, upon being triggered by a start of communication with the device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor further executes a process including: registering the access information upon receiving an input of the access information from a user of the mobile terminal; and confirming a connection between the mobile terminal and the information processing apparatus by using the access information. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the access information includes information that specifies a cloud storage service among a plurality of cloud storage services. ### Claim 13 A mobile terminal comprising a processor, in communication with a memory, executing a process including: transmitting, over a first communication network, output data to be output by a device, to an information processing apparatus over the first communication network, the output data being transmitted to the information processing apparatus upon accepting an instruction via a user interface displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal; and transmitting, over a second communication network different from the first communication network, access information to the device over the second communication network, the access information specifying a communication destination of the information processing apparatus from which the output data is to be acquired by the device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The mobile terminal according to claim 13, wherein the access information includes information that specifies a cloud storage service among a plurality of cloud storage services. ### Claim 15 A device comprising a processor, in communication with a memory, executing a process including: receiving, over a second communication network, access information from a mobile terminal, the access information specifying a communication destination of an information processing apparatus from which output data is to be acquired by the device; acquiring, over a third communication network, the output data from the information processing apparatus according to the access information specifying the communication destination, the access information being acquired from the mobile terminal over the second communication network, the output data being received by the information processing apparatus from the mobile terminal over a first communication network; and outputting the output data. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The device according to claim 15, wherein the access information includes information that specifies a cloud storage service among a plurality of cloud storage services.