Method and system for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal

• US 10,489,095 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd (Ninestar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Li, Jiade, Wang, Jian, She, Shaohua
• Primary Examiner(s): Washington, Jamares Q
• Application Number:
  US15/537,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344321A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115
• 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 3/1224 Client or server resources management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• 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

The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal. The method comprises: scanning a two-dimensional code, by a mobile terminal; decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information; sending a user account to a server, by the mobile terminal; binding, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired by the mobile terminal using the two-dimensional code; and executing, by the mobile terminal, a printing task using the imaging device bound to the user account.

Claims

1. A method for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal, comprising:

scanning a two-dimensional code, by a mobile terminal;

decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information;

sending a user account to a server, by the mobile terminal;

sending a binding request to the server, by the mobile terminal;

based on the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code by the mobile terminal, binding in response to the binding request, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, wherein;

before binding in response to the binding request, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, further include;

in response to the binding request, determining whether the image device corresponding to the image device information has been stored by the server,

if the server has stored the image device corresponding to the image device information, transmitting information to the mobile terminal that the image device is already bound; and

if the server has not stored the image device corresponding to the image device information, based on the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code by the mobile terminal, binding, by the server, the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account; and

executing, by the mobile terminal, a printing task using the imaging device bound to the user account, wherein after binding the user account and the imaging device by the server, the printing task is able to be directly executed by the mobile terminal remotely using the imaging device and other previously bound imaging devices.

2. The method according to claim 1, further including:

after decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire the decoded information comprising the imaging device information, based on the decoded information, automatically starting or downloading an imaging app for executing a printing task; and

when the mobile terminal sends the user account to the server, sending, by the imaging app in the mobile terminal, the user account to the server when the user is logging in.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the imaging device information includes at least one of a device name, a device number, a print speed, a print resolution, a supported print mode, and at least includes a device number.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information, further includes:

decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to obtain encrypted imaging device information; and

decrypting the encrypted imaging device information to obtain decrypted imaging device information.

5. The method according to claim 4, further including:

after sending the user account to the server by the mobile terminal, triggering, by a user click, an imaging app in the mobile terminal to transmit a binding request to the server;

or

automatically transmitting, by the imaging app in the mobile terminal, a binding request to the server.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein binding, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account further includes:

in response to the binding request, by the server, binding the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code,

wherein the binding request includes the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein binding, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account further includes:

in response to the binding request, sending, by the server, an instruction to acquire the imaging device information to the mobile terminal;

in response to the instruction, sending, by the mobile terminal, the imaging device information obtained from decoding the two-dimensional code to the server; and

after receiving, by the server, the imaging device information, binding the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information.

8. The method according to claim 4, further including:

decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to obtain an URL for downloading an imaging app; and

based on the URL, downloading the imaging app.

9. The method according to claim 8, based on the URL, downloading the imaging app, further includes:

after obtaining the URL from decoding the two-dimensional code by the mobile terminal, automatically downloading the imaging app based on the URL,

wherein the URL directs to a web page prompting to download the imaging app, or to a downloading address of the imaging app.

10. A method for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal, comprising:

scanning a two-dimensional code, by a mobile terminal;

decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information, obtain encrypted imaging device information, obtain decrypted imaging device information, obtain an URL for downloading an imaging app,

and obtain automatic detection information for detecting whether the imaging app has been installed on the mobile terminal or whether the installed imaging app is a latest version;

based on the automatic detection information, detecting, by the mobile terminal, at least one of whether the imaging app has been installed on the mobile terminal and whether the installed imaging app is the latest version; and

after determining the imaging app has not been installed or the installed imaging app is not the latest version, downloading the imaging app based on the URL

sending a user account to a server, by the mobile terminal;

based on the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code by the mobile terminal, binding, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account; and

executing, by the mobile terminal, a printing task using the imaging device bound to the user account.

11. A system for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal, comprising:

at least one mobile terminal, a server and at least one imaging device, wherein the server is coupled to the at least one imaging device through a data connection and, meanwhile, coupled to the at least one mobile terminal through a data connection, wherein;

the at least one mobile terminal is configured to scanning a two-dimensional code;

the at least one mobile terminal is configured to decode the two-dimensional code, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information;

the at least one mobile terminal is configured to send a user account to the server and send a binding request to the server;

based on the user account received from the at least one mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code by the at least one mobile terminal, the server is configured to bind, in response to the binding request, the at least one imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, wherein;

before binding in response to the binding request, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, further include;

in response to the binding request, determining whether the image device corresponding to the image device information has been stored by the server,

if the server has stored the image device corresponding to the image device information, transmitting information to the mobile terminal that the image device is already bound; and

if the server has not stored the image device corresponding to the image device information, based on the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code by the mobile terminal, binding, by the server, the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account; and

the at least one mobile terminal is configured to execute a printing task using the at least one imaging device bound to the user account, wherein after binding the user account and the imaging device by the server, the printing task is able to be directly executed by the mobile terminal remotely using the imaging device and other previously bound imaging devices.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein:

after the at least one mobile terminal is configured to decode the two-dimensional code to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information, the at least one mobile terminal is further configured to, based on the decoded information, automatically start or download an imaging app for executing a printing task; and

when the mobile terminal sends the user account to the server, the imaging app in the mobile terminal is configured to send the user account to the server when the user is logging in.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein:

the imaging device information includes at least one of a device name, a device number, a print speed, a print resolution, a supported print mode, and at least includes a device number.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein when the at least one mobile terminal is configured to decode the two-dimensional code to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information, the at least one mobile terminal is further configured to:

decode the two-dimensional code to obtain encrypted imaging device information; and

decrypt the encrypted imaging device information to obtain decrypted imaging device information.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein:

after the mobile terminal sends the user account to the server, an imaging app in the mobile terminal is triggered by a user click to transmit a binding request to the server;

or

a binding request is automatically transmitted to the server by the imaging app in the mobile terminal.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein when the server is configured to bind the at least one imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, the server is further configured to:

in response to the binding request, bind the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code,

wherein the binding request includes the imaging device information acquired from the two-dimensional code.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein:

when the server is configured to bind the at least one imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, the server is further configured to, in response to the binding request, send an instruction to acquire the imaging device information to the mobile terminal;

the mobile terminal is further configured to, in response to the instruction, send the imaging device information obtained from decoding the two-dimensional code to the server; and

after the server receives the imaging device information, the server is further configured to bind the imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information.

18. The system according to claim 14, wherein the mobile terminal is further configured to:

decode the two-dimensional code, to obtain an URL for downloading an imaging app; and

based on the URL, download the imaging app.