Method of using address book of image forming apparatus on web browser and image forming apparatus for performing the same

• US 9,736,323 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2015
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Hyun-seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Madelein
• Application Number:
  US14/624,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20150237224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00395 Arrangements for reducing operator input input arrangements for job or mode instructions or parameters H04N1/00962; intelligent menu interfaces H04N1/00437
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00493 Particular location of the interface or console

Abstract

A method of using an address book of an image forming apparatus on a web browser includes receiving web data in an image forming apparatus from a web server; displaying a web page corresponding to the received web data on a display unit of the image forming apparatus; receiving an input of selecting one of at least one input box comprised in the web page; analyzing a form tag corresponding to the selected input box from the web data; and displaying a virtual text input device or an address list on the display unit based on the analysis result in which the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number, wherein the virtual keyboard is capable of being synchronized with an address book of the image forming apparatus.

Claims

1. A method of using an address book of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

by at least one hardware processor executing computer-executable instructions stored in at least one storage medium to cause;

controlling the image forming apparatus to generate image data;

receiving web data comprising an input box tagged by at least one form tag;

displaying a web page corresponding to the received web data and including the input box on a display unit of the image forming apparatus, the display unit configured to selectively display at least one of;

an address list including email addresses or phone numbers, and

a virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list;

receiving a first input selecting the input box tagged by the at least one form tag;

in response to the received first input, analyzing the at least one form tag tagged to the selected input box to determine whether the selected input box is to receive one of an email address input and a phone number input;

in response to the determining that the selected input box is to receive the one of the email address input and the phone number input, controlling the display unit to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device;

receiving a second input selecting at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers included in the address list based on the displayed at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device;

providing the generated image data for the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers, such that the generated image data is sent to the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing the at least one form tag comprises:

determining that the selected input box is to receive the email address input in response to an input tag included the at least one form tag being an “

email”

type supported by hypertext markup language (HTML) 5, and

determining that the selected input box is to receive the phone number in response to an input tag included the at least one form tag being a “

tel”

type supported by the hypertext markup language (HTML) 5.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device on the display unit comprises:

identifying attributes comprised in the at least one form tag;

determining whether to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device according to the identified attributes; and

based on the determining to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device according to the identified attributes, displaying the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device on the display unit comprises:

displaying the address list when a “

list”

attribute is comprised in the at least one form tag, wherein

the “

list”

attribute designates the address list.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device on the display unit comprises:

displaying a filtered address list when a pattern attribute is comprised in the at least one form tag and when an input is received corresponding to the pattern attribute.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list comprises a button that loads the address list.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

8. An image forming apparatus for supporting a web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a storage to store;

image data to be generated by the image forming apparatus, and

an address list including email addresses or phone numbers;

a communication unit to receive web data comprising an input box tagged by at least one form tag by performing communication with an external web server;

a web browser to display a web page corresponding to the received web data and including the input box;

a display unit to selectively display at least one of;

the address list, and

a virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list; and

a controller to;

receive a first input selecting the input box displayed on the web page while the web browser displays the web page corresponding to the received web data;

in response to the received first input selecting the input box, analyze the at least one form tag tagged to the selected input box to determine whether the selected input box is to receive one of an address input and a phone number input;

in response to the determining that the selected input box is to receive the one of the address input and the phone number input, controlling the display unit to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device;

receive a second input selecting at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers included in the address list based on the displayed at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device;

providing the generated image data for the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers, such that the generated image data is sent to the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers.

9. The image forming apparatus of claim 8, wherein

the controller is further to determine whether the selected input box is to receive the one of the email address input and the phone number input by analyzing the at least one form tag corresponding to the selected input box from the web data.

10. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller is further to determine that:

the input box is to receive the email address input in response to an input tag included in the at least one form tag being an “

email”

type supported by HTML5, and

the input box is to receive the phone number input in response to an input tag included in the at least one form tag being a “

tel”

type supported by the HTML5.

11. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller is further to identify attributes included in the at least one form tag, and

determine to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device on the display unit based on the identified attributes.

12. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further to determine to display the address list when a “

list”

attribute is included in the at least one form tag, wherein

the list attribute designates the address list.

13. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further to determine to display a filtered address list when a pattern attribute is comprised in the at least one form tag.

14. The image forming apparatus of claim 8, wherein the virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list comprises a button that loads the address list.

15. A method of entering data in an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

by at least one hardware processor executing computer-executable instructions stored in at least one storage medium to cause;

controlling the image forming apparatus to generate image data;

displaying web data comprising an input box tagged by at least one form tag on a display unit of the image forming apparatus, the display unit configured to selectively display at least one of;

an address list including email addresses or phone numbers, and

a virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list;

in response to the input box being selected, determining whether the selected input box of the displayed web data is for receiving one of an email address input and a phone number input based on the at least one form tag tagged to the input box;

in response to the determining that the selected input box is for receiving the one of the email address input and the phone number input, displaying the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device on the display unit

receiving an input value selecting at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers based on the displayed at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device;

providing the generated image data for the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers, such that the generated image data is sent to the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one form tag of the selected input box is analyzed to determine whether the selected input box for receiving the one of the email address input and the phone number input.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining that the selected input box is for receiving the one of the email address input and the phone number input when an input tag included in the at least one form tag tagged to the selected input box is determined as one of an “

email”

type and a “

tel”

type supported by HTML 5.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein at least one email address entries beginning with a first character are displayed on the display unit when the first character of the email address is received as an input in the selected input box to be matched to a first character of at least one of the email addresses, the displayed at least one email address entries being obtained from the address list stored in the image forming apparatus.

19. An image forming apparatus supporting a web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a storage to store;

image data to be generated by the image forming apparatus, and

an address list including email addresses or phone numbers;

a communication unit for receiving web data including an input box tagged by at least one form tag by communicating with an external web server;

a display unit for displaying the received web data including the input box and to selectively display at least one of;

the address list, and

a virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address list; and

a controller to;

in response to the input box being selected, determine whether the selected input box of the displayed web data is for receiving one of an email address input or a phone number input based on the at least one form tag tagged to the input box,

in response to the determining that the selected input box is for receiving the one of the email address input and the phone number input, control the display unit to display the at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device,

receiving an input value selecting at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers based on the displayed at least one of the address list and the virtual text input device,

providing the image data for the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers, such that the generated image data is sent to the selected at least one of the email addresses or the phone numbers.