Printing apparatus configured to transmit bluetooth® low energy advertise packet

• US 10,667,108 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2018
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Go
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Tan H
• Application Number:
  US16/122,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20190007818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 455 413, 4555521, 4555561, 455557, 370312, 358 115
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A user sets a format of an advertise packet to be transmitted from a plurality of formats using a setting screen displayed on a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus transmits an advertise packet according to the setting made via the setting screen.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus which performs a wireless communication based on Bluetooth®

Low Energy, and which performs print processing based on print data received from an external apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising;

a setting unit configured to set whether to enable a first function; and

a wireless communication unit configured to transmit a first type of advertise packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the advertise packets corresponding to a print application installable in an external apparatus, in accordance with the setting unit having set to enable the first function,

wherein the wireless communication unit is capable of transmitting both the first type of the advertise packets and a second type of the advertisement packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the second type being different from the first type, based on a setting in the printing apparatus.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the wireless communication unit transmits the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets by a time division method when the wireless communication unit transmits the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the wireless communication unit transmits the other of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets after a lapse of predetermined time from a start of transmitting one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the wireless communication unit repeats transmission of the first type of the advertise packets at first intervals and transmission of the second type of the advertise packets at second intervals.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the first interval and the second interval are same values.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein a value of the first interval is different from a value of the second interval.

7. The printing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the wireless communication unit transmits one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets a plurality of times and transmits after the transmission of the one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets, another one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets a plurality of times.

8. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising;

a display unit configured to display a setting screen for setting whether to enable the first function,

wherein the setting unit makes the settings by accepting a user operation via the setting screen displayed on the display unit.

9. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first function is a function related to transmission of the advertise packets corresponding to the print application that can be installed in the external apparatus.

10. A printing apparatus which performs a wireless communication based on Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the printing apparatus comprising;

a print processing unit configured to perform print processing based on print data received from an external apparatus; and

a wireless communication unit configured to transmit, by a time division method, a plurality of types of advertise packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy that differ in format,

wherein a first type of the advertise packets transmitted by the wireless communication unit are advertise packets transmitted for a print application that can be installed in an external apparatus.

11. The printing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the wireless communication unit transmits the other of the first type of the advertise packets and a second type of the advertise packets after a lapse of predetermined time from a start of transmitting one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets.

12. The printing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the wireless communication unit repeats transmission of the first type of the advertise packets at first intervals and transmission of the second type of the advertise packets at second intervals.

13. The printing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the first interval and the second interval are same values.

14. The printing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein a value of the first interval is different from a value of the second interval.

15. The printing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the wireless communication unit transmits one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets a plurality of times and transmits after the transmission of the one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets, another one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets a plurality of times.

16. A method for controlling a printing apparatus which performs a wireless communication based on Bluetooth®

Low Energy, and which performs print processing based on print data received from an external apparatus, the method comprising;

setting whether to enable a first function; and

transmitting a first type of an advertise packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the advertise packets corresponding to a print application installable in an external apparatus, in accordance with settings to enable the first function,

wherein the printing apparatus is capable of transmitting both the first type of the advertise packets and a second type of the advertisement packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the second type being different from the first type, based on a setting in the printing apparatus.

17. The method according to claim 16,

wherein transmitting the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets is performed by a time division method when the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets are transmitted.

18. The method according to claim 17,

wherein transmitting the other of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets is performed after a lapse of predetermined time from a start of transmitting one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets.

19. The method according to claim 17,

wherein transmitting the first type of the advertise packets is repeated at first intervals and transmitting the second type of the advertise packets is repeated at second intervals.

20. The method according to claim 19,

wherein the first interval and the second interval are same values.

21. The method according to claim 19,

wherein a value of the first interval is different from a value of the second interval.

22. The method according to claim 17,

wherein, one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets are transmitted a plurality of times, and after the transmission of the one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets, another one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets are transmitted a plurality of times.

23. The method according to claim 16, further comprising;

displaying a setting screen for setting whether to enable the first function,

wherein making the settings by accepting a user operation via the setting screen.

24. The method according to claim 16, wherein the first function is a function related to transmission of the advertise packets corresponding to the print application that can be installed in the external apparatus.

25. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for causing a computer to execute a method for controlling a printing apparatus which performs a wireless communication based on Bluetooth®

Low Energy, the method comprising;

performing print processing based on print data received from an external apparatus; and

transmitting, by a time division method, a plurality of types of advertise packets of the Bluetooth®

Low Energy that differ in format,

wherein a first type of the advertise packets transmitted by the wireless communication unit are advertise packets transmitted for a print application that can be installed in an external apparatus.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 25,

wherein transmitting the other of a first type of the advertise packets and a second type of the advertise packets is performed after a lapse of predetermined time from a start of transmitting one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 25,

wherein transmitting the first type of the advertise packets is repeated at first intervals and transmitting the second type of the advertise packets is repeated at second interval.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 27,

wherein the first interval and the second interval are same values.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 27,

wherein a value of the first interval is different from a value of the second interval.

30. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 25,

wherein, one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets are transmitted a plurality of times, and after the transmission of the one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets, another one of the first type of the advertise packets and the second type of the advertise packets a plurality of times are transmitted.

31. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 25, wherein the first function is a function related to transmission of the advertise packets corresponding to the print application that can be installed in the external apparatus.