Mobile device for automatically delivering print jobs to printers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsLenin Fernandes, Kumaravel Ganesan, Rajesh Bhatia, Ritesh Jha
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide for the handling of a print job for a printer via a mobile device. The mobile device receives a notification from a computing device to indicate the print job is available for printing. Upon the mobile device joining a wireless network associated with the printer, the mobile device delivers the print job from the mobile device to the printer via the wireless network.
Claims15
A method to deliver a print job to a printer via a mobile device, the method comprising:
- joining, by the mobile device, a wireless network associated with the printer, wherein the printer is a non-web-connected printer;
- and
- upon and in response to the mobile device joining the wireless network associated with the printer,
- automatically downloading, at the mobile device, the print job from a computing device;
- and
- automatically delivering the print job from the mobile device to the printer via the wireless network to cause the printer to function as a web-connected printer to the computing device.
A mobile device to deliver a print job to a printer, the mobile device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory on which is stored instructions that are to cause the processor to:
- register the mobile device with a computing device to receive printable content from the computing device via the Internet;
- join a wireless network associated with the printer, wherein the printer is non-web-connected printer;
- and
- upon and in response to joining the wireless network associated with the printer,
- download the print job from the computing device;
- and
- deliver, via the wireless network, the print job to the printer without user intervention to cause the printer to function as a web-connected printer to the computing device.
A non-transitory memory resource storing instructions that when executed cause a processor of a mobile device to deliver a print job of a computing device to a printer via a mobile device, wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to:
- join a wireless network associated with the printer, wherein the printer is non-web-connected printer;
- and
- upon and in response to joining the wireless network associated with the printer,
- download the print job from the computing device;
- and
- automatically deliver the print job wirelessly to the printer for printing to cause the printer to function as a web-connected printer to the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.