Printers And Printer Systems Having Cellular Input/output

• US 20110242604A1
• Filed: 04/25/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brett Graves, John H. Oleinik, Marc Biundo
• Original Assignee: Brett Graves, John H. Oleinik, Marc Biundo
• Inventors: Biundo, Marc, Graves, Brett, Oleinik, John H.
• Granted Patent: US 8,223,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 method comprising:

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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said accessing comprises calling the printer with a cell phone.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said accessing comprises, at least in part, calling a location service that provides a location of a nearest cellularly-configured printer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the resource does not comprise the resource itself.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication comprises an identifier that can be used to retrieve the resource via a network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the printer the indication comprises establishing a secure dialog between the cellular device and the printer.

7. 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, said resource comprising a network-accessible resource that does not reside on the printer and which the printer is to retrieve.

8. A method comprising:

accessing a cellularly configured printer by calling the printer with a cellular phone; and

cellularly sending the printer an indication of a resource that is to be printed by the printer, the indication comprising an identifier that can be used to retrieve the resource via the Internet.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the identifier comprises a URL.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of sending the printer the indication comprises establishing a secure dialog between the cellular phone and the printer.