MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ESTABLISHING WIRELESS CONNECTION

• US 20100069008A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: NAGAHARA, Takanori, KANAUCHI, Shizu, OSHIMA, Yukiko, KATO, Yoshinaga
• Granted Patent: US 8,285,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.300
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A mobile terminal device establishes a wireless connection by a first communication unit with an information processing apparatus, and establishes a wireless communication by a second communication unit that is capable of enabling a wireless communication in a wider range based on communication setting information received through the first communication unit. A setting-item acquiring unit receives a setting item for an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus through the second communication unit. A setting-screen display unit displays a setting screen with which a value of the setting item can be selected.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device that establishes a wireless connection by a first communication unit when moved close to an information processing apparatus that performs an information processing, receives communication setting information for a second communication unit that is capable of enabling a wireless communication in a wider range than the first communication unit, and establishes a wireless communication by the second communication unit based on the communication setting information, the mobile terminal device comprising:

a setting-item acquiring unit that receives, from the information processing apparatus, a setting item relating to an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus through the second communication unit in response to a request for acquiring the setting item; and

a setting-screen display unit that displays a setting screen on which a value of the setting item is displayed in a selectable manner.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the setting screen includes a synchronization declaring member that receives an instruction for declaring a synchronization between a setting item that can be set in the information processing apparatus and a setting item that can be set in the mobile terminal device, and

the mobile terminal device further comprises a message display unit that displays a message for move the mobile terminal device close to the information processing apparatus on the setting screen when the synchronization declaring member receives the instruction.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a processing-request transmitting unit that transmits, to the information processing apparatus, data to be processed by the information processing apparatus and a processing request including a value of a setting item selected on the setting screen.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a status-information acquiring unit that receives status information of an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus in response to the processing request through the second communication unit; and

a status-information display unit that displays the status information on the setting screen.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a history-information storage unit that stores a value of a setting item selected on the setting screen in a storage unit as history information, wherein

the setting-screen display unit displays the history information on the setting screen.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3, further comprising an identification-information acquiring unit that acquires identification information for identifying the history information, wherein

the processing-request transmitting unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, a processing request including history information associated with the identification information as the value of the setting item selected on the setting screen.

7. The mobile terminal device according to claim 6, wherein the identification information is model information of the information processing apparatus.

8. The mobile terminal device according to claim 6, wherein the identification information is location information of the mobile terminal device.

9. A method of establishing a wireless communication in a mobile terminal device that establishes a wireless connection by a first communication unit when moved close to an information processing apparatus that performs an information processing, receives communication setting information for a second communication unit that is capable of enabling a wireless communication in a wider range than the first communication unit, and establishes a wireless communication by the second communication unit based on the communication setting information, the method comprising:

setting-item acquiring including the mobile terminal device receiving, from the information processing apparatus, a setting item relating to an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus through the second communication unit in response to a request for acquiring the setting item; and

setting-screen displaying including the mobile terminal device displaying a setting screen on which a value of the setting item is displayed in a selectable manner.

10. A computer program product comprising a computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium for establishing a wireless communication in a mobile terminal device that establishes a wireless connection by a first communication unit when moved close to an information processing apparatus that performs an information processing, receives communication setting information for a second communication unit that is capable of enabling a wireless communication in a wider range than the first communication unit, and establishes a wireless communication by the second communication unit based on the communication setting information, the program codes when executed causing a computer to execute:

setting-item acquiring including the mobile terminal device receiving, from the information processing apparatus, a setting item relating to an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus through the second communication unit in response to a request for acquiring the setting item; and

setting-screen displaying including the mobile terminal device displaying a setting screen on which a value of the setting item is displayed in a selectable manner.