US 8,542,379 B2Granted

Printing cost charging method

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorTae-jung Yun

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Abstract

A printing cost charging method of a printing system wherein the printing system includes a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus capable of communicating data with the mobile terminal, and a server capable of communicating data with the mobile terminal via a wireless communication network. The printing cost charging method comprises the steps of transmitting printing data from the mobile terminal to the image forming apparatus, transmitting printing information relating to the printing data from the image forming apparatus to the mobile terminal, transmitting the printing information from the mobile terminal to the server, and controlling the server to charge a printing cost to the mobile terminal based on the printing information. Costly equipment and potential errors are reduced as the server of the printing system which charges the printing cost interfaces with the mobile terminal without the Internet.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A printing cost charging method for a printing system which has an image forming apparatus capable of communicating data with a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal server capable of communicating data with the mobile terminal via a wireless communication network, the printing cost charging method comprising the steps of:

transmitting printing data from the mobile terminal to the image forming apparatus;
after the transmission of the printing data to the image forming apparatus, printing the printing data at the image forming apparatus;
after the printing of the printing data at the image forming apparatus, generating printing information relating to a performed printing job according to the printing data at the image forming apparatus;
after the generation of the printing information at the image forming apparatus, transmitting the printing information from the image forming apparatus to the mobile terminal;
after the transmission of the printing information to the mobile terminal, transmitting the printing information and phone number information together from the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal server and calculating at the mobile terminal server of the mobile terminal a printing cost using the printing information received from the mobile terminal;
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after the calculation of the printing cost at the mobile terminal server, charging the printing cost by the mobile terminal server based on the printing information, to an operator of the mobile terminal based on the phone number information, received together from the mobile terminal at the mobile terminal server.

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A printing cost charging method for a printing system which has a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus capable of communicating data with the mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal server capable of communicating data with the mobile terminal via a wireless communication network, the printing cost charging method comprising the steps of:

authenticating the mobile terminal by the mobile terminal server;
after the authentication of the mobile terminal, requesting printing data by the authenticated mobile terminal from the mobile terminal server;
after the request by the authenticated mobile terminal, transmitting the printing data to the mobile terminal;
after the transmission of the printing data to the mobile terminal, transmitting the printing data from the mobile terminal to the image forming apparatus;
after the transmission of the printing data to the image forming apparatus, printing the printing data at the image forming apparatus;
after the printing of the printing data at the image forming apparatus, generating printing information relating to a performed printing job according to the printing data at the image forming apparatus;
after the generation of the printing information at the image forming apparatus, transmitting the printing information from the image forming apparatus to the mobile terminal, then transmitting the printing information and phone number information together from the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal server, and then calculating at the mobile terminal server of the mobile terminal a printing fee using the printing information received from the mobile terminal;
and
after the calculation of the printing fee at the mobile terminal server, charging the printing fee for the requested printing data based on the printing information, to an operator of the mobile terminal based on the phone number information, received together from the mobile terminal at the mobile terminal server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/125,345Filed 10 May 2005
Priority: KR 10-2004-003662922 May 2004
Published: US 2005/0270564 A18 Dec 2005
Granted: 24 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06Q 30/00
Commerce
G03G 21/02
Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge: counting the number of copies; Billing
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
G03G
Electrography

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