Electronic apparatus, message server and method for controlling printing
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae-Young SOH, Jeong-Jin Park
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a messenger unit through which an image forming apparatus having an account address is selected as a dialogue partner, a user interface through which a file to be printed in the selected image forming apparatus is selected; and a controller which controls the messenger unit to transmit a dialogue message including the selected file and account information of the image forming apparatus to the message server.
Claims41
An electronic apparatus which is connectible to a message server which transmits a printing job to an image forming apparatus, the electronic apparatus comprising:
- a messenger unit through which an image forming apparatus having an account address is selected as a dialogue partner;
- a user interface through which a file to be printed in the selected image forming apparatus is selected;
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- a controller which controls the messenger unit to transmit a dialogue message including the selected file and account information of the image forming apparatus to the message server.
A message server which receives a dialogue message from an electronic apparatus, the message server comprising:
- a message processor which receives a dialogue message including a file and an account address of an image forming apparatus from the electronic apparatus;
- an account management unit which searches an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job based on the account address included in the dialogue message;
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- a job management unit which transmits the file included in the dialogue message to the searched image forming apparatus.
A method for controlling printing of an electronic apparatus which is connectible to a message server which transmits a printing job to an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving selection of an image forming apparatus having an account address as a dialogue partner;
- receiving selection of a file to be printed by the selected image forming apparatus;
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- transmitting a dialogue message including the selected file and account information of the image forming apparatus to the message server.
A method for controlling printing of a message server which receives a dialogue message from an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a dialogue message including a file and an account address of an image forming apparatus from the electronic apparatus;
- searching an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job based on the account address included in the dialogue message;
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- transmitting the file included in the dialogue message to the searched image forming apparatus.
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a program to execute a method for controlling printing of an electronic apparatus, the method for controlling printing comprising:
- receiving selection of an image forming apparatus having an account address as a dialogue partner;
- receiving selection of a file to be printed by the image forming apparatus selected as the dialogue partner;
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- transmitting the selected file to the message server in a dialogue message method.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.