DEVICE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, DEVICE APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20140029051A1
• Filed: 07/23/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KITADA, Naruhide
• Application Number:
  US13/948,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20140029051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

An information terminal has a Web browser that has a function to browse information. The Web browser includes a device search module for searching a printer connected to a network, a program acquiring module for acquiring a service script from the printer to control operations of the printer that was searched, and a program executing module for controlling operations of the printer by executing the service script that was acquired.

Claims

1. A device controlling apparatus comprising:

a Web browser for browsing information so that the device controlling apparatus controls a device connected through a network based on operations to the Web browser,

wherein the Web browser includes

a device search module for searching the device connected to the network,

a program acquiring module for acquiring program from the device to control the device that was searched, and

a program executing module for controlling the device by executing the acquired program.

2. The device controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the device search module determines a search condition for searching the device and searches the device that meets the determined search condition.

3. The device controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the program acquiring module determines a target function for use among functions provided in the device that was searched, and acquires the program, which limits a function to be realized by controlling the device in response to the determined function, from the device.

4. The device controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the program acquiring module acquires and executes a program to transmit device information of the device controlling apparatus from the device that was searched, and acquires the program changing a function to be realized in response to the device information that was transmitted.

5. The device controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the Web browser displays information related to a plurality of devices that the device search module searched, and

the device controlling apparatus further includes a selecting module for selecting the device as an acquisition destination of the program from the plurality of devices that were displayed.

6. The device controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the program executing module generates control data to control the device by executing the program, and the control data is sent to the device.

7. A device apparatus that is connected to a device controlling apparatus provided with a Web browser through a network, wherein the Web browser includes a function for browsing information, the device apparatus comprising:

a retaining module for retaining program which is executable by the Web browser to control a device;

a transmitting module for transmitting the program to the device controlling device when a request to send the program is received from the device controlling apparatus; and

a processing module for performing process in accordance with control from the program executed in the device controlling device.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a control program to control a device connected through a network, the device being controlled based on operations of a Web browser for browsing information, the control program executed in a computer comprising:

a device searching function that searches the device connected to the network;

a program acquiring function that acquires program from the device so as to control the device that was searched; and

a program executing function that controls the device by executing the program that was acquired.