Image forming apparatus and service providing method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJung-hyuk KWON
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus, comprising a communication interface unit to communicate with outside, a plurality of web-based applications to use web page information received via the communication interface unit, and a control unit to provide service on an open platform having a web server which shares session information of each of the plurality of web-based applications. Accordingly, session information can be shared between web-based applications.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a communication interface unit to communicate with an external device;
- and
- a control unit to provide service on an open platform having a plurality of web-based applications which use web page information received via the communication interface unit and a web server which shares session information of each of the plurality of web-based applications,
- wherein the session information includes user account information, password information, and/or IP address information.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a control unit to provide service on an open platform including a plurality of web-based applications;
- wherein the open platform includes a web server to provide web page information to each of the plurality of web-based applications, and a session sharing unit to control the web server to share session information of each of the plurality of the web-based applications.
A service providing method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- receiving web page information;
- providing service on an open platform having a plurality of web-based applications based on the received web page information and a web server which shares session information of each of the plurality of web-based applications;
- and
- controlling the web server via a session sharing unit of the open platform so that session information of at least one web-based application among the plurality of web-based applications is provided to other web-based applications.
An open platform comprising:
- a plurality of web-based applications to control an image forming apparatus based on web page information;
- and
- a session sharing unit to provide session information corresponding to at least one of the web-based applications to at least one other of the web-based applications;
- wherein the session information is information employed by the plurality of web-based applications to provide a service via the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.