US 10,694,068 B2 · Terminal device configured to initiate printing based on distance from printing device

Abstract

A terminal device performs operations includes: a file information receiving process to receive M pieces of file information for identifying M image files from a printer storing M image files; a specific signal receiving process to receive a specific signal from the printer; a determination process to determine whether an inter-device distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance by using a received radio field intensity of the specific signal; a selection process to select N pieces of file information, which is a part of the M pieces of file information when it is determined in the determination process that the inter-device distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance; and a print instruction transmission process to not transmit the print instruction to the printer when it is determined that the inter-device distance is not equal to or less than the predetermined distance.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions to control a printer to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving print data from a terminal device, the print data being an image data to be printed;
starting, in response to the receiving the print data, to repeatedly transmit a signal to calculate a distance between the printer and the terminal device, the signal including printer identification information identifying the printer;
receiving a specific instruction including print-data identification information identifying the print data and causing to start a print according to the print data that is already received in the receiving the print data, from the terminal device;
and
executing, in response to the receiving the specific instruction, the print according to the print data that is identified by the print-data identification information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Terminal device configured to initiate printing based on distance from printing device

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Terminal device configured to initiate printing based on distance from printing device

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Abstract

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