Electronic device control system, portable data storage device, data preparation device, electronic device, and operation data management device

• US 20050213151A1
• Filed: 05/17/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shunsuke Yajima, Syoichiro Yoshiura
• Original Assignee: Shunsuke Yajima, Syoichiro Yoshiura
• Inventors: Yoshiura, Syoichiro, Yajima, Shunsuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,830,539 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• 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 1/34 for coin-freed systems ; Pay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3212 of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3218 of a confirmation, acknowledgement or receipt
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

When preparing print data by a personal computer, identification data corresponding to the print data is also prepared. The print data is transmitted via a network to a printer, and the identification data is transmitted to a portable phone by wireless, and stored in a memory in the portable phone. When a user approaches the printer carrying the portable phone, the identification data is transmitted to the printer by wireless. The printer carries out image output processing based on the print data corresponding to the received identification data. Thus, in a control system for an electronic device such as an image output device, operation control can be conducted by each print job, and by such operation control, the whole system including an electronic device and data preparation means such as a personal computer can be controlled more efficiently.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. An electronic device control system comprising:

data preparation means for preparing operation data;

an electronic device for carrying out processing based on the operation data prepared by said data preparation means; and

portable data storage means for receiving the operation data prepared by said data preparation means, said portable data storage means including operation data storage means for storing the operation data,

wherein said portable data storage means transmits the operation data stored in said operation data storage means to said electronic device, and when said electronic device receives the operation data from said portable data storage means, said electronic device carries out the processing based on the operation data.

9. The electronic device control system of claim 7, wherein:

said electronic device includes display means; and

said electronic device includes control means which confirms the content of the operation data, judges whether or not said electronic device has function means for performing a selected function required to perform an operation based on the operation data, then indicates the judgment result on said display means.

11. The electronic device control system of claim 7, wherein:

said portable data storage means also stores user management identification data, and transmits the user management identification data to said electronic device; and

said electronic device controls to limit the performance of an operation by said electronic device based on the user management identification data received from said portable data storage means.

13. The electronic device control system of claim 11, wherein:

the user management identification data includes data of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of department identification data identifying the department in which said data preparation means for preparing operation data is installed, user identification data set for each user, and storage means identification data set for each portable data storage means.

15. The electronic device control system of claim 11, wherein:

the user management identification data is registered in said portable data storage means in advance.

17. The electronic device control system of claim 7, wherein:

said electronic device is an image output device, and the operation data is print data.

19. The electronic device control system of claim 7, wherein:

said data preparation means is a personal computer.

21. The electronic device control system of claim 7, wherein:

said portable data storage means includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of a portable phone, a portable information processing terminal, and a card-type information recording medium.

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23. A portable data storage device comprising:

a receiving section for receiving operation data prepared by a data preparation device from said data preparation device;

storage means for storing the operation data; and

a transmitting section for, upon receipt of the operation data, transmitting the operation data stored in said storage means to said electronic device which carries out the processing based on the operation data.

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25. A data preparation device comprising:

a data preparation section for preparing operation data to control the operation of an electronic device;

an operation data transmitting section for transmitting the operation data prepared by said data preparation section to said electronic device;

an operation data transmitting section for transmitting the operation data prepared by said data preparation section to a portable data storage device which has functions to store the received operation data and transmit the stored operation data to said electronic device,

wherein said electronic device, upon receipt of the operation data from said portable data storage device, performs an operation based on the operation data.

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27. An electronic device comprising:

a receiving section for receiving operation data from a portable data storage device which has a function to store the operation data received from said data preparation device which prepares the operation data; and

an operation section for performing an operation based on the operation data received by said receiving section.

28. An operation data management device comprising:

data storage means for storing operation data received via a network from a data preparation device which prepares the operation data controlling the operation of an electronic device; and

management means for managing a data output process to output the operation data stored in said data storage means to a plurality of electronic devices connected via the network.