TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION SHARING METHOD

• US 20150271293A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: MURATA, Jun
• Application Number:
  US14/659,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20150271293A1
• 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 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1291 Pool of printer devices: self-managing printing devices in a network, e.g. without a server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• 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 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A terminal device includes: an output unit which outputs a terminal identification image including first terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal device; a display unit which displays a list of one or more other terminal devices acquiring the terminal identification information; and a data transmission unit which executes processing of transmitting data to another terminal device selected from the list.

Claims

1. A terminal device comprising:

an output unit which outputs a terminal identification image including first terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal device;

a display unit which displays a list of one or more other terminal devices acquiring the terminal identification information; and

a data transmission unit which executes processing of transmitting data to another terminal device selected from the list.

2. The terminal device according to independent claim 1, further comprising a list request unit which requests, from an information processing system, the list of second terminal identification information associated with the first terminal identification information and used to identify the other terminal devices,

wherein the data transmission unit executes the processing of transmitting, to the information processing system, a content transmission request to transmit the data to the terminal device selected from the list.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising a registration request unit which transmits, to the information processing system, a registration request to register the first terminal identification information used to identify the own terminal device and the second terminal identification information acquired from a terminal identification image output by an output unit of each of the other terminal devices in association with each other.

4. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the data transmission unit executes a procedure of transmitting the data together with the selected terminal device through the information processing system using common identification information generated to be shared with the selected terminal device by the information processing system.

5. The terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a print control unit which controls output of print data; and

a display unit which displays an operation screen on which a user operation against the print control unit is performed,

wherein the list request unit requests, from the information processing system, the list in response to user operation on the operation screen displayed on the display unit, and causes the display unit to display a screen on which a terminal device, to which the data is to be transmitted, is selected on the basis of terminal identification information included in the list transmitted from the information processing system in response to the request.

6. An information sharing system comprising a first terminal device and one or more second terminal devices,

wherein the first terminal device includes:

an output unit which outputs a terminal identification image including first terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal device;

a display unit which displays a list of second terminal devices acquiring the first terminal identification information; and

a data transmission unit which executes processing of transmitting data to a second terminal device selected from the list, and

the second terminal devices each includes;

an acquisition unit which acquires the terminal identification image; and

a reception unit which receives the data transmitted from the transmission unit.

7. The information sharing system according to claim 6, further comprising an information processing system including one or more information processing devices,

wherein the first terminal device further includes:

a list request unit which requests, from the information processing system, the list including one or more pieces of second terminal identification information used to identify the respective second terminal devices and associated with the first terminal identification information,

the second terminal device includes;

an acquisition unit which acquires the first terminal identification information from the terminal identification image; and

a registration request unit which makes a registration request to the information processing system to register the first terminal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit and second terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal device in association with each other, and

the information processing system includes;

a registration unit which registers the first terminal identification information and the one or more pieces of the second terminal identification information in association with each other in response to the registration request; and

a list transmission unit which transmits, to the first terminal device, a list including the one or more pieces of the second terminal identification information registered in association with the first terminal identification information in the registration unit, in response to a request from the list request unit.

8. The information sharing system according to claim 7, wherein the data transmission unit executes a procedure of transmitting the data together with the selected second terminal device through the information processing system using common identification information generated to be shared with the selected second terminal device by the information processing system.

9. The information sharing system according to claim 8, wherein the first terminal device and the second terminal devices cannot perform communication with each other across segments.

10. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein

the first terminal device further comprising:

a print control unit which controls output of print data; and

a display unit which displays an operation screen on which a user operation against the print control unit is performed, and

the list request unit requests, from the information processing system, the list in response to user operation on the operation screen displayed on the display unit, and causes the display unit to display a screen on which a terminal device, to which the data is to be transmitted, is selected on the basis of terminal identification information included in the list transmitted from the information processing system in response to the request.

11. An information sharing method in an information sharing system including a first terminal device and one or more second terminal devices, the method comprising:

outputting, by the first terminal device, a terminal identification image including first identification information used to identify the first terminal device;

acquiring, by the second terminal devices, the first terminal identification image;

displaying, by the first terminal device, a list of second terminal devices which acquire the first terminal identification information;

transmitting, by the first terminal device, data to a second terminal device selected from the list; and

receiving, by the selected second terminal device, the data.

12. The information sharing method according to claim 11 in the information sharing system further including an information processing system which includes one or more information processing devices, the method further comprising:

requesting, by the first terminal device, from the information processing system, a list including one or more pieces of second terminal identification information associated with the first terminal identification information and used to identify the respective second terminal devices;

acquiring, by each of the second terminal devices, the first terminal identification information from the terminal identification image;

making, by each of the second terminal devices, a registration request to the information processing system to register the first terminal identification information acquired at the acquiring and second terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal in association with other;

registering, by the information processing system, the first terminal identification information and one or more pieces of the second terminal identification information in association with each other in response to the registration request; and

transmitting, by the information processing system, to the first terminal device, in response to the requesting of the list, a list including the one or more pieces of the second terminal identification information registered in association with the first terminal identification information in the registration unit.

13. The information sharing method according to claim 12, wherein the first terminal device executes a procedure of transmitting the data together with the selected second terminal device through the information processing system using common identification information generated to be shared with the selected second terminal device by the information processing system.

14. The information sharing method according to claim 13, wherein the first terminal device and the second terminal devices cannot perform communication with each other across segments.

15. The information sharing method according to claim 12, further comprising:

displaying, by the first terminal device, an operation screen on which a user operation against a print control unit which controls output of print data is performed, wherein

at the requesting of the list, the first terminal device requests the list from the information processing system in response to user operation on the operation screen, and displays a screen on which a terminal device, to which the data is to be transmitted, is selected on the basis of terminal identification information included in the list transmitted from the information processing system in response to the requesting of the list.