Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

S-printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Seung-soo Oak

Ji-Young Lee

So-young Kim

Jin-hyung Kim

Sung-hoon Bae

Byung-oh Park

Lye-suk Lee

Jae-kyung Cho

Chang-seok Choi

Jeong-ho Kim

Hyung-chan Kim

Soo-young Kang

Jin-tack Lee

A method of storing data for a user form document received from the outside in an image forming apparatus, in place of a test page that has been stored in the image forming apparatus, and printing the user form document according to a command to print the test page, an image forming apparatus using the method, and a computer-readable recording medium.

Method of printing user form document, image forming apparatus using the method, and computer-readable recording medium

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.

Pull printing method, apparatus and system

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

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.

Method and image forming apparatus to generate user interface screen to be displayed to user accessing the image forming apparatus

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.

Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and driver installation method and computer-readable medium 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.

Image forming system, user authenticating method thereof, and control method thereof

A method and a system to share an image forming apparatus among a plurality of hosts. The method includes generating a print enable signal to be transmitted to one of the plurality of hosts corresponding to an order of forming communication channels among one or more hosts to enable wireless communication, and performing a print job by enabling the host that receives the print enable signal to transmit print data to the image forming apparatus. Accordingly, the image forming apparatus such as a printer or multi-purpose tray is wirelessly connected to the plurality of hosts to perform print jobs and scanning jobs.

Method and system to share an image forming apparatus among a plurality of hosts

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.

Network interface device

A hybrid wired and wireless communication device and a wired and wireless communication method thereof. The wired and wireless communication method includes determining whether a wired communication module has been linked to a wired communication network, setting a wireless communication operating mode of a wireless communication module to an infrastructure mode when it is determined that the wired communication module has not been linked to the wired communication network, and setting the wireless communication operating mode to an ad-hoc mode when it is determined that the wired communication module has been linked to the wired communication network. Therefore, the wireless communication operating mode is automatically set according to whether the wired communication network has been linked to the wired communication module, thereby increasing a user's convenience.

Hybrid wired and wireless communication device and a wired and wireless communication method thereof

A wireless network printer that can access a cable LAN and has an access point function. The wireless network printer includes a wireless LAN card that receives predetermined data from a wireless LAN card of a first wireless client and transmits the data to a cable client connected to a cable LAN or a wireless LAN card of a second wireless client, and a printer processor that receives the data output from the wireless LAN card having the access point function. The wireless network printer provides an access point function in a wireless LAN and allows wire/wireless network printing.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Seung-soo Oak