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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Charles Thomas Armstrong, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for device communication receive, at a proxy device, an image of a barcode that was sent from a mobile device, wherein the barcode includes device information for an image-forming device, and wherein the device information identifies a network of the image-forming device; send the device information from the proxy device to one or more support devices; and at the one or more support devices, determine if the respective support device is connected to the network of the image-forming device, and in response to determining that the respective support device is connected to the network of the image-forming device, generate an output queue for the image-forming device on the support device that is connected to the network of the image-forming device.