Printer identification and mobile printing
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJayasimha Nuggehalli, Jiang Hong
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Abstract
Techniques are provided for displaying encoded data that represent a) features and options currently supported by a printing device, b) a printer identifier for the printing device, and c) network service interface data for a network service, wherein the network service interface data allow a mobile device to send print settings selection data and electronic document identification data to the network service; and processing print data and causing a printed version of an electronic document represented by the print data to be printed by the printing device.
Claims20
A printing device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a print process configured to process print data and cause a printed version of an electronic document represented by the print data to be printed by the printing device;
- and
- an encoded data generator configured to:
- generate, at a first time, encoded data that represents a) features and options supported by the printing device at the first time, b) a printer identifier for the printing device at the first time, and c) network service interface data for a network service at the first time, and
- regenerate, at a second time that is different than the first time, the encoded data that represents a) the features and options supported by the printing device at the second time, b) the printer identifier for the printing device at the second time, and c) the network service interface data for the network service at the second time.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of steps comprising:
- generate, at a first time, encoded data that represents a) features and options supported by a printing device at the first time, b) a printer identifier for the printing device at the first time, and c) network service interface data for a network service at the first time, and
- regenerate, at a second time that is different than the first time, the encoded data that represents a) the features and options supported by the printing device at the second time, b) the printer identifier for the printing device at the second time, and c) the network service interface data for the network service at the second time.
A method comprising:
- generating, at a first time, encoded data that represents a) features and options supported by a printing device at the first time, b) a printer identifier for the printing device at the first time, and c) network service interface data for a network service at the first time, and
- regenerating, at a second time that is different than the first time, the encoded data that represents a) the features and options supported by the printing device at the second time, b) the printer identifier for the printing device at the second time, and c) the network service interface data for the network service at the second time;
- wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.