SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND PROCESSING CONTROL OF NETWORK RESOURCE DATA BASED ON COMPARING RESPECTIVE NETWORK TERMINAL AND NETWORK RESOURCE LOCATION INFORMATION

• US 20110208864A1
• Filed: 09/17/2010
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PrinterOn Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: PrinterOn Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Krishnammagaru, Dharmesh, Onischke, Mark, Kuindersma, Michael, Stairs, Jonathon, St. Laurent, Michael, Noreikis, Ken
• Application Number:
  US12/884,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20110208864A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/28 Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level

Abstract

A method and corresponding system for providing access to network resources, the system comprising: a resource registry including resource records associated with each of the network resources, at least one of the resource records identifies a physical location of the associated network resource; and an administration server for responding to a query containing criteria wherein at least one of the criteria is geographical coordinates, the administration server is configured to access the resource registry to obtain a list of one or more nearest network resources to the geographical coordinates based on the respective physical location of the network resources, and to transmit the list of nearest network resources in response to the query.

Claims

1. A network resource control system for providing access to network resources, the system comprising:

a resource registry including resource records associated with each of the network resources, at least one of the resource records identifies a physical location of the associated network resource;

an administration server for responding to a query containing criteria wherein at least one of the criteria is geographical coordinates, the administration server is configured to access the resource registry to obtain a list of one or more nearest network resources to the geographical coordinates based on the respective physical location of the network resources, and to transmit the list of nearest network resources in response to the query.

2. The network resource control system of claim 1 wherein the list of nearest network resources contains a single network resource that is the closest network resource to the geographical coordinates.

3. The network resource control system of any one of claim 2 wherein the geographical coordinates are any one of latitude/longitude coordinates, GPS coordinates and wireless triangulation data.

4. The network resource control system of any one of claim 3 wherein the criteria further includes at least one of printer type, printer model, delivery capability, job quality and price.

5. The network resource control system of any one of claim 4 wherein each network resource in the list of nearest network resources is specified by an alias that identifies the physical location of the network resource.

6. The network resource control system of any one of claim 5 wherein at least one of the network resources is a printer.

7. The network resource control system of any one of claim 5 wherein at least one of the network resources is any one of a facsimile machine, an image server, a file server and a scanner.

8. A method for providing access to network resources, the method comprising:

receiving a query containing criteria wherein at least one of the criteria is geographical coordinates;

accessing a resource registry that includes resource records associated with each of the network resources, at least one of the resource records identifies a physical location of the associated network resource;

obtaining a list of one or more network resources nearest to the geographical coordinates based on the respective physical location of the network resources; and

transmitting the list of network resources.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the list of nearest network resources contains a single network resource that is the closest network resource to the geographical coordinates.

10. The method of any one of claim 9 wherein the geographical coordinates are any one of latitude/longitude coordinates, GPS coordinates and wireless triangulation data.

11. The method of any one of claim 10 wherein the criteria further includes at least one of printer type, printer model, delivery capability, job quality and price.

12. The method of anyone of claim 11 wherein each network resource in the list of nearest network resources is specified by an alias that identifies the physical location of the network resource.

13. The method any one of claim 12 wherein at least one of the network resources is a printer.

14. The method of any one of claim 12 wherein at least one of the network resources is any one of a facsimile machine, an image server, a file server and a scanner.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein data defining the physical location includes geographical information representing the physical location.

19. The method of claim 8, wherein data defining the physical location includes metadata providing a descriptive data of the physical location.

20. The method of claim 8, wherein the metadata is directions within a building that houses the network resource located at the physical location.

21. The method of claim 8, wherein the metadata is an interior map of a building that houses the network resource located at the physical location.

22. The method of claim 8, wherein the resource record of the resource registry contains data representing the physical location.

23. The method of claim 8, wherein the resource record of the resource registry contains a link to data representing the physical location.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the data defining the physical location includes metadata providing a descriptive data of the physical location.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein access to the metadata is controlled by a server located on a network behind a firewall, such that the network also has the network resource.

26. The method of claim 19 further comprising the step of multistage polling to obtain the metadata.

15. A method for communicating with a network resource from a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

obtaining geographical coordinates;

sending a query to a network resource access system, the query containing criteria wherein at least one of the criteria is the geographical coordinates;

receiving a list of one or more network resources nearest to the geographical coordinates; and

connecting to a target network resource from the list of network resources.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

selecting the target network resource from the list of network resources.

17. The method of any one of claim 16, wherein the geographical coordinates are any one of latitude/longitude coordinates, GPS coordinates and wireless triangulation data.