PRINTING CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20100279735A1
• Filed: 07/12/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Pickup, Colin John
• Granted Patent: US 7,925,300 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/36 for portability , i.e. hand-held printers or laptop printers B41J3/4075 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60

Abstract

A method of printing content is disclosed. The method starts by a server receiving a request for content. The server renders the content into a pre-rendered format before transferring the content in the pre-rendered format to a mobile telecommunications device. The content is then printed on a print medium in a media feed path of a printer module of the mobile telecommunications device. During the printing step, coded data disposed on the print medium is sensed using a sensor module in the media feed path of the printer module. The coded data encodes a print medium identifier which uniquely identifies the print medium. Finally, the content is associated with the print medium identifier for later retrieval using the print medium identifier.

Claims

1. A method of printing content, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at a server, a request for content;

rendering, at the server, the content into a pre-rendered format;

transferring, by the server, the content in the pre-rendered format to a mobile telecommunications device;

printing the content on a print medium in a media feed path of a printer module of the mobile telecommunications device;

during the printing step, sensing coded data disposed on the print medium using a sensor module in the media feed path of the printer module, the coded data encoding a print medium identifier which uniquely identifies the print medium; and

associating the content with the print medium identifier, the content being retrievable using the print medium identifier.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the request for content includes characteristic data of the printer module, and the content is rendered into the pre-rendered format using the characteristic data of the printer module.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the request for content originates in the mobile telecommunications device, and is initiated through activation of an information link.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the information link is a hyperlink embedded in a web page.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising an initial step of:

receiving by the mobile telecommunications device the information link from a remote device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the information link is, or is contained within, an SMS or MMS message received by the mobile telecommunications device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein prior to receiving the request for content at the server, a content reference is transmitted to the mobile telecommunications device after activation of the information link, receipt of which results in the request for content being transmitted to the server.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the content reference is passed to a retriever module in the mobile telecommunications device, the retriever module effecting the transfer of the content to the mobile telecommunications device.