Network System, Device Server, And Network System Control Method

• US 20170134602A1
• Filed: 01/24/2017
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Hideo, Nishizawa, Koji
• Granted Patent: US 10,063,731 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/1211 Improving printing performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1268 Job submission, e.g. submitting print job order or request not the print data itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1289 in server-client-printer device configuration, e.g. the server does not see the printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1293 Printer information exchange with computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• 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: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00225 details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or network scanners using an image reading device as a local input to a computer H04N1/00241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00238 using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer output via network, e.g. network printing H04N1/00233
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 : Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence

Abstract

An input control script embedded in a web page is received by a client terminal that accesses, using a web browser, a web application server on which a web application operates, and that controls an input device. The input control script comprises an acquisition request transmission unit that sends an acquisition request to the input device when a specific operation is performed on the web page from the web application server; an acquisition unit that acquires input information from the input device as a response to the acquisition request; and a drawing process unit that draws the input information acquired by the acquisition unit in a specific drawing area.

Claims

1. An input control script embedded in a web page received by a client terminal that accesses, using a web browser, a web application server on which a web application operates, and that controls an input device, the input control script comprising:

an acquisition request transmission unit that sends an acquisition request to the input device when a specific operation is performed on the web page from the web application server;

an acquisition unit that acquires input information from the input device as a response to the acquisition request; and

a drawing process unit that draws the input information acquired by the acquisition unit in a specific drawing area.

2. The input control script described in claim 1, further comprising:

a stop operation request transmission unit that sends a stop operation request to the input device when stopping operation of the input device is selected on the web page from the web application server.

3. The input control script described in claim 1, wherein:

the acquisition request transmission unit sends the acquisition request to a service endpoint address previously set in the input control script, the acquisition request containing identification of the input device.

4. The input control script described in claim 2, wherein:

the acquisition unit continues the acquisition even when a selection window of the stopping operation is displayed on the web page from the web application server.

5. The input control script described in claim 1, wherein:

the input control script is lost when stopping operation of the input device is selected on the web page from the web application server.

6. A method of controlling scanning by an input control script embedded in a web page received by a client terminal that accesses, using a web browser, a web application server on which a web application operates, and that controls an input device, the method comprising:

an acquisition request transmission step that sends an acquisition request to the input device when a specific operation is performed on the web page from the web application server;

an acquisition step that acquires input information from the input device as a response to the acquisition request; and

a drawing process step that draws the input information acquired by the acquisition step in a specific drawing area.

7. The method for controlling scanning by an input control script described in claim 6, further comprising:

a stop operation request transmission step that sends a stop operation request to the input device when stopping operation of the input device is selected on the web page from the web application server.