US 7,126,706 B2Granted

Data transmission system for printing data at a site remote from a home location/office

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorKatsuya Taniguchi

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Abstract

The system of the invention includes: a storage portion for storing the information as to installation sites of a plurality of output apparatuses and their functional information (e.g., shop list table in the print service server); and an output apparatus candidate selecting device for extracting the candidates for the nearby output apparatus capable of producing an output of the image data, with reference to the information as to installation sites of the output apparatuses with their functional information stored in the storage portion, based on the image data input via the network from a portable terminal device and the information as to the current position of the portable terminal device. The image data is transferred to the output apparatus selected by the user from the output apparatus candidates presented by the output apparatus candidate selecting device.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A data transmission system that supports at least printing of data at a site remote from a home location, comprising:

a data transmission control apparatus being operably coupled to a network;
a portable data terminal device being configured and arranged so as to be capable of transmitting data and an output request via the network to the data transmission control apparatus;
a plurality of output apparatuses being operably connected on the network for producing an output based on the transmitted data;
wherein in the data transmission apparatus, installation site information of the plurality of output apparatuses and functional information of the plurality of output apparatuses are registered beforehand;
wherein the data transmission control apparatus determines positional information of the position of the portable data terminal device;
and
wherein the data transmission control apparatus is configured and arranged so as to select one or more output apparatuses of the plurality of output apparatuses, based on the installation site information, based on the functional information, based on a data type of the transmitted data transmitted from the portable data terminal device, and based on the determined positional information of the portable data terminal device.

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A data transmission system that supports at least printing of data at a site remote from a home location, comprising:

a data transmission control apparatus being operably coupled to a network;
a portable data terminal device being configured and arranged so as to be capable of transmitting data and an output request via the network to the data transmission control apparatus;
a plurality of output apparatuses being operably coupled to the network for producing an output based on the transmitted data;
wherein in the data transmission apparatus, installation site information of the plurality of output apparatuses and functional information of the plurality of output apparatuses are registered beforehand;
wherein the data transmission control apparatus is configured and arranged so as to extract one or more candidates for the output apparatus from the plurality of outputting apparatuses based on the installation site information, based on the functional information, based on a data type of the transmitted data transmitted from the portable data terminal device, and based on area information of a desired area where the output is to be produced;
and
wherein the area information is inputted from the portable data terminal device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/859,089Filed 16 May 2001
Priority: JP 2000-14686518 May 2000
Published: US 2001/0046067 A129 Nov 2001
Granted: 24 Oct 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
H04L 67/04
Protocols: specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
H04L 67/52
Network services: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
H04N 1/00204
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…