Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hp Printing Korea Co., Ltd.

Lye-suk Lee

Ji-Young Lee

Hwan-joon Choi

Byung-oh Park

Jin-Hee Kim

Hyung-Chan Kim

Seung-soo Oak

Jong-yoon Lim

Seong-taek Park

Hyung-chan Kim

Byung-Oh Park

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.

Management server, management device, and method of management of plural image forming apparatuses

A host device includes a user interface to receive user information to log in a managing server, a communication interface to transmit the user information to the managing server, a display unit, and a controller that, if login to the managing server is performed, controls the display unit to display information corresponding to an image forming apparatus connected to the host device.

Host device, managing server and method of controlling image formation thereof

An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit which stores information regarding the other image forming apparatuses of the same group as the image forming apparatus and quota information of each user which is shared by the other image forming apparatuses, a controller which, if a job command is input, determines whether to perform a job according to whether the number of copies requested by the job command satisfies the quota information of each user, a function unit which performs the job under control of the controller, a quota information administration unit which updates the quota information of each user stored in the storage unit as the job is performed, and a communication interface which transmits the updated quota information of each user to the other image forming apparatuses.

Image forming apparatus and system and method for charging for printing

A method and system for sharing information of contents possessed by audio/video (A/V) devices having network interface, which are connected with each other on a network, and efficiently controlling the execution of the contents are provided. In a control device which receives a list of contents from a collection device collecting content information of each content possessed by a source device within an audio/video (A/V) network and controls execution of the content using the list of the contents, the control device includes a contents list requester requesting the list of the contents existing on the A/V network from the collection device in response to a user's command, a web browser displaying a list page, which is provided by the collection device in response to the request of the list, and receiving from the user a command to execute a content selected from the contents displayed on the list page, a content decoder restoring the content from a content stream provided by the source device possessing the selected content, and a content display displaying the restored content to the user.

System and method for collecting contents on audio/video network and controlling execution of the contents

A method and an apparatus for playing multimedia contents are provided. The method includes if a multimedia contents file providing the multimedia contents is loaded, detecting contents menus for controlling the multimedia contents from the multimedia contents file and displaying the contents menus; and if a specific contents menu is selected from the contents menus, providing a contents service corresponding to the selected contents menu.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Lye-suk Lee