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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);
William Ho Chang, Vancouver, WA (US);
Christina Ying Liu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);
Abstract
Printing devices (or output controllers) supporting printing over air or wireless network printing or Internet printing, are herein disclosed and enabled. The printing device may include wireless communication chips or chipsets supporting part of IEEE 802.11 standards for (1) connecting to a wireless local area network (LAN) to establish communication with a client that is in the wireless LAN; (2) transmitting device information related to the printing device from the printing device to the client; and (3) receiving print data from the client over the wireless LAN for printing at the printing device. The print data is based on the device information transmitted to the client. A printer driver specific to the printing device may or may not be necessary for printing to the printing device. The printing device may require registration with a service over a network prior to providing printing services to the client.