Print service system, print order receiving server, image storage service system, image storage server and mobile telephone

• US 20020042263A1
• Filed: 10/05/2001
• Published: 04/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Takatoshi
• Granted Patent: US 6,909,889 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00145 from a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00148 Storage information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• 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 1/00281 with a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call terminal details of transmission H04N1/00095; establishing a communication with one of a facsimile machine or another apparatus sharing a single line H04N1/32704; interfacing cordless telephone terminals with an accessory to increase the functionality of user interface H04M1/72409
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

It is an object to provide a print service system capable of easily giving, from a moving destination, a print order of a digital image photographed at the moving destination and immediately acquiring a necessary print.

A user requiring to print a digital image fetches digital image information to a mobile telephone 5 and transmits the digital image information, together with order request information, to a print order receiving server through a network 1. The order request information includes print condition information. When receiving the digital image information and the print condition information, the print order receiving server 2 transmits digital image information to be printed to a printer server to be a printing destination corresponding to a print condition. At the printing destination, an order print created based on the information transmitted to the print server is delivered to a registered delivery destination which is transmitted.

Claims

1. A print service system for creating a print based on digital image information, comprising:

an order receiving server connected to a network; and

a mobile telephone which can be connected to the network,

wherein the mobile telephone serves to transmit digital image information to be printed and order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition to the order receiving server through the network, and

the order receiving server serves to transmit the received digital image information and print condition information to a printing destination corresponding to the received print condition information.

2. A print service system for creating a print based on digital image information, comprising:

an order receiving server connected to a network; and

a mobile telephone which can be connected to the network,

wherein the mobile telephone serves to transmit digital image information to be printed and order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition and receipt information for specifying a method of receiving a created print to the order receiving server through the network, and

the order receiving server serves to transmit the received digital image information and print condition information to a printing destination corresponding to the print condition information and the receipt information which are received.

3. A print order receiving server for receiving a print order based on digital image information sent from a mobile telephone through a network,

wherein digital image information to be printed and order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition are received, and

the digital image information and the print condition information which are received are transmitted to a printing destination corresponding to the received print condition information.

4. A print order receiving server for receiving a print order based on digital image information sent from a mobile telephone through a network,

wherein digital image information to be printed and order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition and a method of receiving a created print are received, and

the digital image information and the print condition information which are received are transmitted to a printing destination corresponding to the print condition information and the receipt information which are received.

5. A mobile telephone for giving a print order based on digital image information, comprising:

a memory for storing digital image information to be printed; and

order request information creating means for creating order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition of the digital image information,

wherein an access can be given to an order receiving server for receiving a print order through a network and the digital image information to be printed which are stored in the memory and the order request information created by the order request information creating means are transmitted to the order receiving server.

6. A mobile telephone for giving a print order based on digital image information, comprising:

a memory for storing digital image information to be printed; and

order request information creating means for creating order request information including print condition information for specifying a print condition of the image information and receipt information for specifying a method of receiving a created print,

wherein an access can be given to an order receiving server for receiving a print order through a network and the digital image information to be printed which are stored in the memory and the order request information created by the order request information creating means are transmitted to the order receiving server.

7. An image storage service system for storing digital image information, comprising:

an image storage server connected to a network; and

a mobile telephone to which a removable recording medium recording digital image information can be attached and which can be connected to the network,

wherein the mobile telephone serves to transmit the digital image information recorded in the recording medium to the image storage server through the network, and

the image storage server serves to store the digital image information thus received and to transmit storage processing information to the mobile telephone carrying out the transmission after a storage processing.

8. An image storage server for storing digital image information which receives digital image information to be stored which is transmitted from a mobile telephone through a network, and

stores the digital image information thus received and transmits storage processing information to the mobile telephone carrying out the transmission after a storage processing.

9. A mobile telephone accessible to an image storage server for storing digital image information through a network,

wherein a removable recording medium recording digital image information can be attached to the mobile telephone,

the mobile telephone further having means for erasing the transmitted digital image information from the recording medium depending on storage processing information received from the image storage server after transmitting the digital image information recorded in the recording medium to the image storage server.