Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

S-printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Kang-yub Kim

Hyun-Wook Wook Park

Sung-joon Park

Jin-hyung Kim

Naveen Maheshwari

Byoung-yue Kim

Jae-in Lee

Mok-hwa Lim

Eun-young Jung

Provided is an operating method of an image forming apparatus, the operating method including broadcasting a plurality of packets comprising identification information of the image forming apparatus; receiving a connection request comprising the identification information of the image forming apparatus from a mobile terminal which received some packets from among the plurality of broadcasted packets; and connecting to the mobile terminal, based on the connection request, wherein the connection request is transmitted from the mobile terminal when received signal strengths of the some packets received by the mobile terminal are equal to or greater than a first threshold value. In this regard, the first threshold value may indicate a received signal strength greater than a minimum received signal strength at which communication with the mobile terminal is available.

Image forming device supporting short range wireless communication and method for operating same, mobile terminal supporting short range wireless communication and method for operating same, and cloud print system using short range wireless communication

A near field communication (NFC) operating mode of an image forming apparatus may be set by determining a type of a job to be performed in the image forming apparatus via NFC tagging of a mobile device, determining a first NFC operating mode corresponding to the determined type of the job from among a plurality of NFC operating modes supported by an NFC module, setting the determined first NFC operating mode as an operating state of the NFC module, and performing the job by tagging the mobile device via NFC by using the set first NFC operating mode.

Image forming apparatus supporting function of near field communication and method of setting NFC operation mode thereof

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Yongin-si, South Korea

Kang-yub Kim