Cloud-Based Mobile Printout Delivery System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image forming devices require direct connection to a printer for printing contents from mobile devices, limiting flexibility and convenience in printing and delivery of documents.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes a cloud server to transmit contents from mobile devices to a delivery server, allowing users to select printers, display and pay for printing costs, and deliver printouts to receivers through a network, enabling remote printing and delivery without direct printer connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct connection to printer is required for printing, then printing function is reliable, but flexibility and convenience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud server as an intermediary between the mobile device and the printer. The mobile device transmits content to the cloud server, which then processes and forwards it to the printer. This mediator eliminates the need for direct connection between mobile device and printer, thereby improving convenience while maintaining system reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The printing system is segmented into separate functional modules: mobile device for content selection, cloud server for data transmission and processing, and printer for actual printing. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently, improving ease of operation while distributing system complexity across multiple specialized components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If cloud server is used to convert content, then adaptability is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud server performs preliminary conversion of content to universal formats during the upload phase. By converting content to standardized formats (PDF, JPEG, PNG) in advance, the system ensures adaptability for various printer types while minimizing conversion time during the actual printing process, as the conversion work is already completed.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of transmitting contents stored in a mobile device may include displaying a list of the contents on a display screen, receiving a user input for selecting content to be printed, on the display screen, displaying a list of printers capable of printing the selected content, and a ‘send to delivery server’ item on the display screen, transmitting the content to a cloud server based on a user input for selecting the ‘send to delivery server’ item on the display screen, displaying a printing cost of the content on the display screen while the content is being converted into print data by the cloud server, receiving payment information of the printing cost and receiver information of a printout of the content, and transmitting the payment information and the receiver information to the cloud server.