TECHNIQUE FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20150205557A1
• Filed: 01/22/2015
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: OIKE, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 9,286,017 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/129 in server-printer device-client configuration, e.g. print flow goes from server to printer and then bidirectional from printer to client, i.e. the client does not communicate with the server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/007 only remotely, e.g. at a host computer dedicated computer interfaces to print systems G06F3/1201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

An information processing device may receive a file selecting operation for selecting a particular file, and send the selected particular file and a registering request to a first server, the file information including identification information for identifying the selected particular file. The information processing device may obtain thumbnail image data of the selected particular file, receive the identification information from the first server, store the thumbnail image data and the identification information in association with one another, receive a first access operation for accessing K items of file information, send, to the first server, a first access request for accessing the K items of file information, so as to receive, from the first server, K items of the identification information, and display K items of thumbnail images.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for an information processing device,

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of the information processing device, causing the information processing device to perform:

receiving a file selecting operation for selecting a particular file from among one or more files in a memory of the information processing device;

sending the selected particular file and a registering request to a first server via the Internet, the registering request indicating a request for registering file information in the first server, the file information being generated by the first server which received the registering request, the file information including identification information for identifying the selected particular file;

obtaining thumbnail image data of the selected particular file;

receiving the identification information from the first server via the Internet on a condition that the registering request has been sent to the first server;

storing the thumbnail image data and the identification information in the memory in association with one another;

receiving a first access operation for accessing K items of file information registered in the first server, while the K items of file information are registered in the first server, the K being an integer of one or more;

in response to receiving the first access operation, sending, to the first server via the Internet, a first access request for accessing the K items of file information registered in the first server;

in response to sending the first access request, receiving, from the first server, K items of the identification information included in the K items of file information registered in the first server; and

in response to receiving the K items of identification information, retrieving the K items of thumbnail image data stored in the memory in association with the K items of identification information and controlling a displaying unit of the information processing device to display a first screen including K items of thumbnail images represented by the retrieved K items of thumbnail image data.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1, wherein

the registering request further includes a name related to the selected particular file,

the file information further includes the name,

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform:

in response to sending the first access request, receiving, from the first server, K items of names included in the K items of file information registered in the first server,

wherein in response to receiving the K items of identification information and the K items of names, the K items of thumbnail image data are retrieved, and the first screen including the K items of thumbnail images and the K items of names is displayed.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1, wherein

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform:

obtaining display image data of the selected particular file;

storing the display image data in the memory; and

retrieving the display image data stored in the memory and controlling the displaying unit to display an image represented by the retrieved display image data,

wherein the thumbnail image data is obtained by using the display image data stored in the memory, and

the display image data is different from the thumbnail image data.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1, wherein

the thumbnail image data is obtained by generating the thumbnail image data from the selected particular file in a case where a file format of the selected particular file is a predetermined file format;

and

the thumbnail image data is obtained by sending the selected particular file to a second server via the Internet and receiving the thumbnail image data from the second server via the Internet in a case where the file format of the selected particular file is not the predetermined file format.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1, wherein

the thumbnail image data and the identification information are stored in the memory in association with one another in a case where the thumbnail image data is obtained,

the identification information only is stored in the memory in a case where the thumbnail image data is not obtained, and

the first screen including the K items of thumbnail images is displayed in a case where the K items of thumbnail image data are stored in the memory in association with the K items of identification information;

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform;

in a case where M items of thumbnail image data are stored in the memory in association with M items of identification information among the K items of identification information, in response to receiving the K items of identification information, retrieving the M items of thumbnail image data stored in the memory in association with the K items of identification information and controlling the displaying unit to display a second screen including the M items of thumbnail images represented by the retrieved M items of thumbnail image data and (K-M) items of predetermined images, the M being an integer of one or more and less than the K.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1, wherein

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform:

receiving a thumbnail selecting operation for selecting a target thumbnail image from among the K items of thumbnail images included in the first screen displayed on the display unit; and

in response to receiving the thumbnail selecting operation, sending a print executing instruction to a printer, the print executing instruction including target identification information stored in the memory in association with target thumbnail image data representing the target thumbnail image.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 6, wherein

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform:

receiving a second access operation for accessing (K-N) items of the file information registered in the first server, the N being an integer of one or more and less than or equal to the K;

in response to receiving the second access operation, sending, to the first server via the Internet, a second access request for accessing the (K-N) items of file information registered in the first server, and receiving (K-N) items of the identification information included in the (K-N) items of file information from the first server; and

in response to receiving the (K-N) items of identification information under a state where the K items of identification information and the K items of thumbnail image data are stored in the memory, deleting, from the memory, N items of the identification information among the K items of identification information and N items of the thumbnail image data among the K items of thumbnail image data, the N items of identification information excluding the (K-N) items of identification information, the N items of thumbnail image data excluding (K-N) items of the thumbnail image data associated with the (K-N) items of identification information.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 6, wherein

each of the K items of file information further includes status information indicating a progress status of print of an image based on a file identified by identification information in the file information,

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the information processing device, cause the information processing device to further perform:

in response to sending the first access request, receiving, from the first server, K items of the status information included in the K items of file information,

in response to receiving the K items of identification information and the K items of status information, the K items of thumbnail image data are retrieved, and the first screen including the K items of thumbnail images in a various manner in accordance with the K items of status information is displayed.

9. An information processing device comprising:

a displaying unit;

a processor; and

a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the information processing device to perform;

receiving a file selecting operation for selecting a particular file from among one or more files in the memory;

sending the selected particular file and a registering request to a first server via the Internet, the registering request indicating a request for registering file information in the first server, the file information being generated by the first server which received the registering request, the file information including identification information for identifying the selected particular file;

obtaining thumbnail image data of the selected particular file;

receiving the identification information from the first server via the Internet on a condition that the registering request has been sent to the first server;

storing the thumbnail image data and the identification information in the memory in association with one another;

receiving a first access operation for accessing K items of file information registered in the first server, while the K items of file information are registered in the first server, the K being an integer of one or more;

in response to receiving the first access operation, sending, to the first server via the Internet, a first access request for accessing the K items of file information registered in the first server;

in response to sending the first access request, receiving, from the first server, K items of the identification information included in the K items of file information registered in the first server; and

in response to receiving the K items of identification information, retrieving the K items of thumbnail image data stored in the memory in association with the K items of identification information and controlling the displaying unit to display a first screen including K items of thumbnail images represented by the retrieved K items of thumbnail image data.