Cloud system and method of displaying, by cloud system, content

• US 10,212,110 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2015
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Sung-woo, Yoon, Mu-hy, Choi, Hwan-joon, Hwang, Ki-young, Just, Adam, Traverso, Dario, Dantwala, Nehal, Parihar, Vishal
• Primary Examiner(s): Strange, Aaron N
• Application Number:
  US14/803,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20160050326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234363 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for clients with a lower screen resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25825 involving client display capabilities, e.g. screen resolution of a mobile phone optimising the visualisation of content during browsing in the Internet G06F16/9577; processing of terminal status or physical abilities in wireless networks H04W8/22; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2662 Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 : comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 : Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 : Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 : Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

Provided is a system for providing a cloud service for display, the system including: an image forming apparatus configured to generate scan data including scanning a document and assign a display device to which the scan data is to be transmitted through a chat room; a cloud configured to receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus and transmit the scan data to the display device; and the display device, wherein the display device is configured to display the scan data received from the cloud.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an image forming apparatus to;

display a chat room in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating, the at least one device participating in the chat room including a display device,

generate scan data by scanning a document, and

assign the display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room;

a cloud to;

receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus,

determine, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device, and

transmit one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and

the display device to display the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud,

wherein

the cloud comprises a print service server having a representational state transfer application programming interface (REST API) module for an agent application installed in the display device and operable to communicate with the cloud, wherein the print service server is to receive network address information and nickname information of the display device from the display device and register the network address information and nickname information.

2. A method, comprising:

generating, via an image forming apparatus having a scanner to scan a document, scan data by a controller of the image forming apparatus controlling the scanner to scan the document;

generating, by a cloud, a chat room and assigning one of a public attribute and a private attribute for the chat room, such that when the cloud assigns the chat room the public attribute, anonymous participants are allowed to participate in the chat room, and when the cloud assigns the chat room the private attribute, only predetermined participants are allowed to participate in the chat room;

displaying, via an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, the chat room generated by the cloud using a chat room application executed by the controller, in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating;

assigning, via the operation panel of the image forming apparatus, a display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room, wherein the at least one device participating in the chat room comprises the display device;

receiving, via the cloud, the scan data and information about the display device from the image forming apparatus;

determining, via the cloud, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device;

transmitting, via the cloud, one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and

displaying, via the display device, the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising sharing, via the image forming apparatus, the scan data with the at least one device participating in the chat room through the chat room.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing, via the cloud, the scan data in a storage server when the scan data is received, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a uniform resource locator (URL) address corresponding to an address of a directory of the storage server in which the scan data is stored, to the display device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the storage server comprises Riak cloud storage (CS) and a database.

6. The method of claim 2, comprising, when the display device is not logged in to the chat room, inviting the display device to log in to the chat room.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the cloud includes a print service server receiving the scan data from the image forming apparatus, a Riak cloud storage (CS), and a database, and

the method further comprises:

analyzing, by the print service server, the scan data and controlling metadata of the scan data to be stored in the Riak CS and controlling the scan data to be stored in the database, based on the analyzing.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

storing, in a storage server of the cloud, a history of content shared in the chat room;

providing, by the storage server, the history of content shared in the chat room in response to a request from at least one of the account corresponding to the image forming apparatus or the at least one account corresponding to the at least one device; and

displaying, on at least one of the operation panel of the image forming apparatus or the display device, information about the history of content shared in the chat room, the information about the history of content shared in the chat room including at least one of a file name of the content shared in the chat room, time information about a time when the content was shared in the chat room, capacity information of the content shared in the chat room, or information about participants in the chat room when the content was shared in the chat room.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 2.

10. A system, comprising:

an image forming apparatus to;

display a chat room in which an account corresponding to the image forming apparatus and at least one account corresponding to at least one device are participating, the at least one device participating in the chat room including a display device,

generate scan data by scanning a document, and

assign the display device as a destination to which the scan data is to be transmitted through the chat room;

a cloud to;

generate the chat room and assign one of a public attribute and a private attribute for the chat room, such that when the cloud assigns the chat room the public attribute, anonymous participants are allowed to participate in the chat room, and when the cloud assigns the chat room the private attribute, only predetermined participants are allowed to participate in the chat room,

receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus,

determine, based on a display capability of the display device, whether to convert the scan data to another format that is displayable by the display device according to the display capability of the display device, and

transmit one of the scan data and converted scan data to the display device based on the determination; and

the display device to display the one of the scan data and the converted scan data received from the cloud.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the display capability of the display device includes a screen resolution capability of the display device, and

when the cloud determines the display device cannot display the scan data based on the screen resolution capability of the display device, the cloud is to convert the scan data to another format having a resolution that is displayable by the display device, based on the screen resolution capability of the display device.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the cloud is to receive, from the image forming apparatus, information for assigning at least one target device for displaying the scan data, wherein the at least one target device comprises the display device.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the image forming apparatus is to share the scan data with the at least one device participating in the chat room through the chat room.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the cloud comprises a storage server to store the scan data when the scan data is received.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the storage server is to provide a uniform resource locator (URL) address corresponding to an address of a directory in which the scan data is stored, to the display device.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the storage server comprises a Riak cloud storage (CS) and a database.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the cloud comprises a control server to control the storage of the scan data in the storage server when the scan data is received.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the display device comprises at least one of a television (TV), a large format display (LFD), a tablet device, or a smart phone.

19. The system of claim 10, wherein the cloud comprises a message server having an extensible messaging and presence protocol server to map network address information of the image forming apparatus and network address information of the display device.

20. The system of claim 10, further comprising a server in the cloud to transmit a command to the display device to commence displaying the scan data received from the cloud.