US 9,800,757 B2 · Print system

Abstract

A print system includes a client device, plural mobile printers, and a server device. The client device issues a print instruction in accordance with a user operation. The plural mobile printers each receive a print instruction and move to a destination indicated by the print instruction so as to perform printing at the destination. The server device selects a mobile printer which will perform printing based on a print instruction issued by the client device, in accordance with selection standards including judgement standards for judging whether or not it is necessary to distribute a print instruction over plural mobile printers or to transfer a print instruction from one mobile printer to another mobile printer.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A print system comprising:

a client device that issues a print instruction in accordance with a user operation;
a plurality of mobile printers that each receive a print instruction and move to a destination indicated by the print instruction so as to perform printing at the destination;
and
a server device that selects a mobile printer which will perform printing based on a print instruction issued by the client device, in accordance with selection standards including judgement standards for judging whether or not it is necessary to distribute a print instruction over a plurality of mobile printers or to transfer a print instruction from one mobile printer to another mobile printer.

1 more element

A print system comprising:

a client device that issues a print instruction in accordance with a user operation;
a mobile printer that receives a print instruction and moves to a destination indicated by the print instruction so as to perform printing at the destination;
a stationary printer that is installed at a fixed position and that receives a print instruction and performs printing;
and
a server device that assigns a print instruction issued by the client device to the mobile printer or the stationary printer in accordance with an assigning standard for assigning a print instruction, wherein
when issuing a print instruction, the client device is able to specify which one of the mobile printer and the stationary printer will perform printing in accordance with a user operation, and
if a specified one of the mobile printer and the stationary printer by the client device is inconsistent with a selected one of the mobile printer and the stationary printer by using the assigning standard, the server device informs the client device that the specified one of the mobile printer and the stationary printer by the client device is inconsistent with the selected one of the mobile printer and the stationary printer by using the assigning standard.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/249,969Filed 29 Aug 2016

Priority

JP 2016-06309628 Mar 2016

Published

US 2017/0280008 A128 Sep 2017

Granted

24 Oct 2017

Term ends

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Classification13 codes

H04N 1/32545
In systems having a plurality of input or output devices: distributing a job or task among a plurality of input devices or a plurality of output…
G05D 1/6987
Control allocation: by centralised control off-board any of the vehicles
H04N 1/00344
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…
H04N 1/00347
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…

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