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WIRELESS PRINTING DEVICES THAT PROVIDE PRINTING SERVICES OVER A NETWORK WITHOUT A PRINTER SPECIFIC PRINTER DRIVER AFTER HAVING REGISTERED THE PRINTING DEVICE WITH A SERVICE OVER THE NETWORK

  • US 20180039459A1
  • Filed: 10/06/2017
  • Published: 02/08/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A printing device that is a wireless printing device for wirelessly providing printing services to one or more client devices over a network without the need for the one or more client devices to install a device specific printer driver that is device specific to the printing device, the printing device includes:

  • an interface for interacting with a user;

    wireless communication circuitry for establishing a connection to a wireless local area network;

    memory or storage component storing software for connecting to one or more computing devices over the network; and

    wherein the printing device;

    (1) receives, via the interface of the printing device from the user, security information for establishing the connection to a wireless local area network;

    (2) establishes, via the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device, the connection to a wireless local area network using, at least in part, the security information received in (1);

    (3) wirelessly accesses, via the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device and using the connection to a wireless local area network established in (2), the network;

    (4) wirelessly connects, via the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device and using the software stored in the memory or storage component of the printing device, to the one or more computing devices over the network accessed in (3);

    (5) wirelessly transmits, via the wireless communication circuitry, device information from the printing device to the one or more computing devices over the network connected in (4), the device information includes at least one of identification information, capability information, address information, status information, or attribute information, individually or in any combination, related to the printing device, and the transmitting of the device information is for registering the printing device; and

    (6) wirelessly receives, via the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device, output data from the one or more computing devices subsequent to having registered the printing device in (5), the output data is related to digital content for rendering at the printing device; and

    wherein the output data received in (6) is further related, at least in part, to the device information transmitted in (5) from the printing device to the one or more computing devices over the network.

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