Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100142989 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, USER AUTHENTICATING METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming system, and a user authenticating method and a control method thereof, the image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses communicably connected and performing a first authentication of a user in a first image forming apparatus of the plurality of image forming apparatuses; requesting a second authentication of the user from at least one second image forming apparatus of the plurality of image forming apparatuses in response to the first authentication failing in the first image forming apparatus; and finally authenticating the user based on a result of the second authentication. | 06-10-2010 |
20110135365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM OUTPUT METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus and the method thereof are provided. An image forming apparatus including: a main body configured to have an image forming unit which forms an image on a printing medium; an after-treatment unit connected to the main body, the after-treatment unit being configured to perform a predetermined after-treatment on a printing medium outputted from the main body; at least one main body output tray coupled to the main body; and a controller configured to detect whether or not the after-treatment unit is in a possible state to perform the after-treatment on the printing medium when the printing medium is predetermined to be outputted from the main body to the after-treatment unit, and to selectively output the printing medium to one of the after-treatment unit and the main body output tray according to the detected result. | 06-09-2011 |
20110225581 | Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and driver installation method and computer-readable medium thereof - Disclosed are a host apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus and a driver installation method and computer-readable medium thereof. A driver installation method of a host apparatus includes accessing a web page provided by the web server and selecting an installation of at least one driver stored in the web server in the host apparatus, transmitting user information of the host apparatus to the driver download server by the host apparatus, determining by the driver download server an existence of a custom driver for a user of the host apparatus by using the user information; and installing in the host apparatus the at least one driver selected according to the existence of the custom driver. With this configuration, a host apparatus and a driver installation method enables a user to install a latest version of the custom driver without any complicated process if a user accesses a web server in the image forming apparatus and selects an installation of the at least one driver. | 09-15-2011 |
20110292447 | NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE - A network interface device having a first board to connect with a wired network to provide signal exchange, which is mounted in a network electronic device, a second board to connect with a wireless network to provide signal exchange, and a first and a second link portion provided at the first and the second boards to removably connect the first and the second boards, respectively. | 12-01-2011 |
20120081729 | Method and image forming apparatus to generate user interface screen to be displayed to user accessing the image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a state management unit to manage state information of the image forming apparatus; a determination unit to determine functions allowable to the user accessing the image forming apparatus according to the state information; a web server unit to generate the user interface screen on which functions are activated according to a result of the determining; and a control unit to control the image forming apparatus to display the generated user interface screen to the user. | 04-05-2012 |
20120303779 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANAGEMENT OF PLURAL IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES - Management server is provided. The management server includes a storage unit to store information about a plurality of client groups, a communication interface unit to receive management device identification information from a management device at remote distance connected to at least one image forming apparatus, a mapping unit to map at least one from among the plurality of client groups with the management device based on the received management device identification information, and a control unit to transmit an activation command to the mapped management device, the activation command directing the management device mapped with the client group to collect the information about the connected image forming apparatus. | 11-29-2012 |
20130016391 | SERVER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFAANM YEON; Jung MoAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP YEON; Jung Mo Seoul KRAANM Oak; Seung SooAACI Seongnam-siAACO KRAAGP Oak; Seung Soo Seongnam-si KRAANM Park; Byung OhAACI Suwon-siAACO KRAAGP Park; Byung Oh Suwon-si KRAANM Choi; Hwan JoonAACI Suwon-siAACO KRAAGP Choi; Hwan Joon Suwon-si KR - A server for image forming apparatuses which calculates charges reasonable to both a service manager and a user, and a control method thereof is provided. The server for image forming apparatuses includes a server input unit to receive charging criteria of image forming apparatuses and a charging criterion of a virtual image forming apparatus, a server communication unit to receive information regarding output amounts from the image forming apparatuses, and a server control unit to generate the virtual image forming apparatus and to calculate charges of the image forming apparatuses according to the charging criterion of the virtual image forming apparatus, when the output amounts of the image forming apparatuses are less than basic output amounts of the charging criteria of the image forming apparatuses, thereby being capable of calculating charges reasonable to both the service manager and the user. | 01-17-2013 |
20140368867 | PULL PRINTING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A pull printing method, apparatus and system are provided. The pull printing system includes a mobile terminal, a client that discovers the mobile terminal by using a phone number according to a print command of a user and transmits rendered print job data to the mobile terminal, and an image forming apparatus that, when connected to the mobile terminal, receives the print job data from the mobile terminal and performs printing. | 12-18-2014 |