System and method for context-aware printing service
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorTae-jung Yun
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Abstract
A method of providing a context-aware printing service includes storing schedule information of a user; storing contents related with the schedule; identifying a location of a mobile terminal of the user and a current time; determining whether the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; transmitting a guide message to print out the contents to the mobile terminal if the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; sending, by the mobile terminal, a printing request to an image forming apparatus; and printing out the contents.
Claims20
A method of providing a context-aware printing service, the method comprising:
- storing schedule information of a user;
- storing contents related with the schedule;
- identifying a location of a mobile terminal of the user and a current time;
- determining whether the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information;
- transmitting a guide message for printing out the contents to the mobile terminal if the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information;
- sending, by the mobile terminal, a printing request to an image forming apparatus;
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- printing out the contents using the image forming apparatus.
A system for providing a context-aware printing service, the system comprising:
- a mobile terminal;
- a schedule management server to store schedule information of users;
- a content management server to store contents related to the schedule information stored in the schedule management server;
- a context-aware server to acquire the schedule information and the contents, identify a location of the mobile terminal and current time, determine whether the identified location and the identified time is consistent with the stored schedule information, and transmit a guide message to print out the contents to the mobile terminal;
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- an image forming apparatus to print the contents according to a printing request sent by the mobile terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.