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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2019
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Hyun-wook Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input/output unit, a communicator to communicate with a wireless device, a memory storing a program for transmitting state information of the image forming apparatus, a controller to, by executing the program for transmitting the state information of the image forming apparatus, control the image forming apparatus to receive, from the wireless device, a probe request packet for searching for a peripheral device, generate a probe response packet comprising the state information of the image forming apparatus in response to the probe request packet, and transmit the probe response packet to the wireless device, and an image forming job performer to perform an image forming job under control of the controller.