Printers and printer systems having cellular input/output

• US 8,223,379 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2011
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Biundo, Marc, Graves, Brett, Oleinik, John H.
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIMI DEHKORDY, SAEID
• Application Number:
  US13/093,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20110242604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.18, 358/1.16, 358/468, 358/402, 358/444, 455/557, 455/551, 455/41.1, 455/552.1, 455/420, 455/418, 455/419, 455/3.03, 455/70, 709/203, 709/204, 709/207, 709/218, 705/1, 705/2, 705/52
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• 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 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00

Abstract

A method includes accessing a cellularly configured printer with a cellular device; and cellularly sending the printer an indication of a resource that is to be printed by the printer, said resource comprising a network-accessible resource that does not reside on the printer and which the printer is to retrieve.

Claims

1. A cellular device programmed to selectively send to a printer, with which the cellular device communicates via a cellular network, an indication of a resource that is to be printed by the printer, wherein said cellular device uses a phone number associated with said printer to make a cellular telephone call to a cellular port supported by a cellular card of said printer to deliver said indication of said resource to said printer.

2. A method comprising:

accessing a cellularly configured printer with a cellular device, said accessing comprising calling a phone number associated with a cellular interface of the printer;

cellularly sending the printer an indication of a resource that is to be printed by the printer; and

querying a third party service using the cellular device to determine the location of a nearest cellularly-configured printer, wherein the third party service knows a current location of the cellular device based on operation of the cellular device within a distributed cellular system.

3. A method comprising:

accessing a cellularly configured printer with a cellular device, said accessing comprising calling a phone number associated with a cellular interface of the printer; and

cellularly sending the printer an indication of a resource that is to be printed by the printer;

wherein said cellular device uses said phone number to make a cellular telephone call to a cellular port supported by a cellular card of said printer to deliver said indication of said resource to said printer.