US 11,379,168 B2Granted

Information processing system, communication connection control method of information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorYukihiro Chikuni

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Abstract

A printing system includes a smart device and a printer, and the smart device establishes a communication connection with the printer based on a BLE communication scheme, transmits a first request that requests a process relating to connection confirmation by a user, and establishes a communication connection with the printer based on a Wi-Fi Direct communication scheme when the smart device receives, from the printer, a response to the first request, and the printer performs, based on the first request received, connection confirmation display for prompting a user to perform the connection confirmation, transmits, when receiving a user operation based on the connection confirmation display, a response to the smart device, the response indicating reception of the user operation, and establishes the communication connection with the smart device based on the Wi-Fi Direct communication scheme.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An information processing system comprising:

a terminal device;
and
an information processing device,
the terminal device including
a terminal wireless communicator configured to perform communication based on a first wireless communication scheme and a second wireless communication scheme, and
a terminal controller configured to, by using the terminal wireless communicator,
establish a communication connection with the information processing device based on the second wireless communication scheme,
transmit a first request to the information processing device with which the communication connection is established based on the second wireless communication scheme,
transmit a second request to the information processing device when the terminal device receives a response to the first request from the information processing device, and
establish a communication connection with the information processing device based on the first wireless communication scheme, the first request requesting a process relating to connection confirmation to the information processing device by a user, the second request requesting the communication connection based on the first wireless communication scheme in accordance with the response,
the information processing device including
an information processing device wireless communicator configured to perform communication based on the first wireless communication scheme and the second wireless communication scheme,
a display section configured to, when the information processing device wireless communicator receives the first request, perform connection confirmation display which is display for prompting the process relating to the connection confirmation,
an operation section configured to receive the process relating to the connection confirmation, and
an information processing device controller configured to, when the operation section receives the process relating to the connection confirmation, transmit the response indicating reception of the process relating to the connection confirmation by the information processing device wireless communicator to the terminal device, the information processing device controller being configured to, when the second request is received by the information processing device wireless communicator from the terminal device, establish the communication connection with the terminal device based on the first wireless communication scheme.

12 more elements

A communication connection control method of an information processing device, the communication connection control method comprising:

establishing a communication connection with a terminal device based on a second wireless communication scheme;
performing connection confirmation display when the information processing device receives a first request from the terminal device with which the communication connection based on the second wireless communication scheme is established, the first request requesting a process relating to connection confirmation by a user, the connection confirmation display being display for prompting the process relating to the connection confirmation;
transmitting a response to the terminal device in response to the first request when the information processing device receives the process relating to the connection confirmation from the user, the response indicating reception of the process relating to the connection confirmation;
receiving a second request from the terminal device in accordance with the response thus transmitted, the second request requesting a communication connection based on a first wireless communication scheme;
and
establishing, based on the second request thus received, the communication connection with the terminal device based on the first wireless communication scheme.

3 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program executable by a terminal controller of a terminal device, the program causing the terminal controller to:

establish a communication connection with an information processing device based on a second wireless communication scheme;
transmit a first request to the information processing device with which the communication connection based on the second wireless communication scheme is established, the first request requesting a process relating to connection confirmation by a user;
receive a response to the first request, the response indicating reception of the process relating to the connection confirmation to the information processing device;
transmit a second request to the information processing device in accordance with the response thus received, the second request requesting a communication connection based on a first wireless communication scheme;
and
establish the communication connection with the information processing device based on the first wireless communication scheme.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/195,085Filed 8 Mar 2021
Priority: JP JP2020-04069810 Mar 2020
Published: US 2021/0286568 A116 Sep 2021
Granted: 5 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 3/1236
Specifically adapted to use a particular technique: connection management
H04W 84/18
Network topologies: self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
G06F 3/1203
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
G06F 3/1209
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in adapted or bridged legacy communication protocols, e.g. emulation,…