Method and apparatus to perform image forming job by using network

• US 9,235,364 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Hyun-wook, Jo, Byeong-tak
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, NGON BINH
• Application Number:
  US14/471,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20150116746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.13
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1212 achieving reduced delay between job submission and print start
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1263 based on job priority, e.g. re-arranging the order of jobs, e.g. the printing sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00103 specially adapted for radio transmission, e.g. via satellites H04N1/00098 takes precedence
• 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 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An apparatus and method of forming an image for image-forming data includes connecting the image-forming apparatus to a device by using a wireless communication, receiving image-forming data from the connected device; adjusting a priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the device, according to a type of the device or a mode in which the image-forming apparatus is connected to the device, and based on the adjusted priority of the image-forming data, forming an image for the image-forming data.

Claims

1. An image forming method for an image-forming apparatus, the method comprising:

wirelessly connecting, by the image forming apparatus, to a device;

adjusting, at one or more processors in the image forming apparatus, a priority order of image-forming data, received from the connected device based on a determined mobility type of the connected device or a determined mode of wireless communication by which the image forming apparatus receives the image-forming data from the connected device; and

controlling, at the one or more processors, the image forming apparatus to form an image from the image-forming data in an automated arranged order, compared to other image forming operations, based on the adjusted priority of the image-forming data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the determined mobility type of the connected device represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, the adjusting of the priority order comprises adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image-forming data that is received from the connected device comprises information that represents a type of the connected device;

the method further comprises determining the type of the connected device based on the information from the image-forming data that represents the type of the connected device; and

the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when the determined type represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device that is of a type that represents that the other device is a device that is not mobile.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving device identification information, in which a type of the connected device is identified, from the connected device; and

determining the type of the connected device, based on the device identification information,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when the determined type represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a type of the connected device, according to a determined emulation mode that the received image-forming data conforms with,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when the determined type represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a type of a communication interface, representing the mode of wireless communication, that creates the connection between the image-forming apparatus and the device,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data based on the determined type of the communication interface.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when the determined type of the communication interface is determined to be a WiFi-Direct interface, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether an IP address in the image-forming data matches a previously allocated IP address of the connected device, the previously allocated IP address of the connected device having been previously determined to be for a device that is mobile,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when it is determined that the IP address in the image-forming data matches the previously allocated IP address of the connected device, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

9. The method of claim 1,

wherein the connecting of the image-forming apparatus to the device includes determining whether identification information of the connected device that is exchanged with the connected device matches previously received identification information of the connected device, the previously received identification of the connected device having been previously obtained through near field communication (NFC) tagging with the connected device,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when it is determined that the identification information of the connected device that is exchanged with the connected device matches the previously received identification information of the connected device, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from a user a user input that indicates whether the priority order of the image-forming data is to be adjusted according to the mobility type of the connected device or the mode of wireless communication,

wherein the adjusting of the priority order comprises, when receiving from the user the user input that indicates that a priority order of the image-forming data is to be adjusted according to the mobility type of the connected device or the mode of wireless communication, adjusting the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device.

11. An image-forming apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication device to wirelessly connect the image-forming apparatus to a device and to receive image-forming data from the connected device;

a controller including one or more processors configured to adjust a priority order of the image-forming data, received from the connected device by the wireless communication unit, based on a determined mobility type of the connected device or a determined mode of wireless communication by which the wireless communication unit receives the image-forming data from the connected device; and

an image-forming unit including printer hardware configured to form an image on a medium,

wherein the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image from the image-forming data in an automated arranged order, compared to other image forming operations, based on the adjusted priority of the image-forming data.

12. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the determined mobility type of the connected device represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

13. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

the image-forming data that is received from the connected device comprises information that represents a type of the connected device;

the controller determines the type of the connected device, based on the information from the image-forming data that represents the type of the connected device; and

wherein, when the determined type represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device that is of a type that represents that the other device is a device that is not mobile.

14. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

the communication unit receives device identification information, in which a type of the connected device may be identified, from the connected device;

the controller determines the type of the connected device, based on the device identification information; and

when the determined type of the connected device represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

15. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the controller determines a type of the connected device, according to a determined emulation mode that the received image-forming data conforms with, and

when the determined type of the device represents that the connected device is a device that is mobile, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

16. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the communication unit determines a type of a communication interface, representing the mode of wireless communication, that creates the connection between the image-forming apparatus the device, and

the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device based on the determined type of the communication interface.

17. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the controller determines whether an IP address in the image-forming data matches a previously allocated IP address of the connected device, the previously allocated IP address of the connected device having been previously determined to be for a device that is mobile, and

when it is determined that the IP address in the image-forming data matches the previously allocated IP address of the connected device, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

18. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

the controller determines whether identification information of the connected device that is exchanged with the connected device matches previously received identification information of the connected device, the previously received identification of the connected device having been previously obtained through near field communication (NFC) tagging with the connected device, and

when it is determined that the identification information of the connected device that is exchanged with the connected device matches the previously received identification information of the connected device, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device to be higher than a priority order of image-forming data that is received from another device.

19. The image-forming apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a user input unit to receive from a user a user input that indicates whether the priority order of the image-forming data is to be adjusted according to the mobility type of the connected device or the mode of wireless communication,

wherein, when receiving from the user input unit the user input that indicates that a priority order of the image-forming data is to be adjusted according to the mobility type of the connected device or the mode of wireless communication, the controller adjusts the priority order of the image-forming data that is received from the connected device.

20. An image-forming apparatus comprising:

a controller, including one or more processors, to adjust a priority order of image-forming data received from one or more external devices, based on a predetermined characteristic of one of the external devices so that the image-forming data are printed on a print medium according to the adjusted priority order,

wherein the characteristic of the one external device is predetermined based on a determination made for a previous image forming operation for the one external device.