Image forming apparatus, and web application installing method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJung-hyuk Kwon
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Abstract
A web application processing method, the web application processing method including: receiving web application information regarding a web application; accessing a web page for the web application using the web application information; reading contents from the web page; generating a virtual application corresponding to the web application using the read contents; and installing the generated virtual application in an image forming apparatus. Therefore, it is possible for a user to easily install a web application using uniform resource locator (URL) information, thereby increasing user convenience.
Claims21
A web application installing method of an image forming apparatus having a printing capability, the method comprising:
- accessing, from the image forming apparatus, a web page for a web application using web application information regarding the web application;
- reading, by the image forming apparatus, contents from the accessed web page;
- generating, within the image forming apparatus, a virtual application corresponding to the web application using the read contents;
- and
- installing the generated virtual application in the image forming apparatus, and
- displaying, on a display of the image forming apparatus, an icon for running the generated virtual application.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a user interface to receive web application information regarding a web application;
- a communication interface to access a web page for the web application using the web application information;
- a contents reader to read contents from the web page;
- a virtualization engine to generate a virtual application corresponding to the web application using the read contents;
- a controller to install the generated virtual application in the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a print unit to print data,
- wherein the user interface displays an icon to run the generated virtual application.
A web application installing method of an image forming apparatus having a printing unit to print data, the method comprising:
- generating, within the image forming apparatus, a virtual application corresponding to a web application of a web page using contents read from the web page accessed by the image forming apparatus;
- and
- installing the generated virtual application in the image forming apparatus, and
- displaying, on a display of the image forming apparatus, an icon for running the generated virtual application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.