TW201640323A - System for providing remote print and displaying waiting time and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for providing remote print and displaying waiting time and a method thereof are provided. By generating target data based on a obtained identification and a print range corresponding with the identification, transmitting the target data to a print system for printing, and determining a waiting time of printing the target data according to a response message from the print system, the system and the method can finish photocopying or printing without rounding trip between copier or printer and collect location in library, and can achieve the effect of knowing waiting time of pickup after print operation.

Description

System and method for providing remote printing and displaying printing waiting time

A printing system and method therefor, and more particularly to a system and method for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time.

Libraries have traditionally been places to collect books and various publications. However, many libraries now store maps, prints, or other archives and works of art on various carriers, such as microfilm, compact discs, hard drives, and the like. Therefore, people gradually redefine modern libraries as locations that can access messages from multiple sources and formats. That is, libraries can provide users with information through electronic devices. For example, libraries can provide collection servers and use them. The electronic device such as a computer can be connected to the collection server through the network, so that the collection server can access the optical disk, the hard disk, or an external online database to obtain the information desired by the user.

In addition, most libraries also have set-up machines or photocopiers to provide users with a small number of photocopies or prints of books and publications in the library collection. However, for some users, a large number of books and publications may need to be photocopied or printed, but each book or publication only needs to be photocopied or printed on a few pages, since books and publications are not easily carried in large numbers. Users can only take a few books or publications for photocopying or printing each time, repeating them several times until the required books or publications are photocopied or printed, resulting in users needing books and publications. A round trip between the collection location, the seat and the photocopier or printer. In addition, users need to wait in line as the number of other people who need to be photocopied or printed increases.

In summary, it can be seen that in the prior art, there has been a long-standing problem that photocopying or printing of library collections needs to be made between the collection location and the photocopier or printer, and it may also need to wait in line, so it is necessary An improved technical means is proposed to solve this problem.

In view of the prior art's existence of photocopying or printing library collections that require a round trip between the collection location and the photocopier or printer, and may also require queues, the present invention discloses a remote printing and display column. A system and method for printing waiting time, wherein:

The system for providing remote printing and displaying printing waiting time is applied to an application, and at least includes: a bibliographic acquisition module for acquiring collection identification data; and a range input module for providing input and collection Identifying the corresponding printing range; the data generating module is configured to generate target data according to the collection identification data and the corresponding printing range; and the data transmission module is configured to transmit the target data to the printing system to print the target data; The time judging module is configured to judge the waiting time for completing the printing of the target data according to the response message sent by the printing system; and the display module is configured to display the waiting time.

The method for providing remote printing and displaying printing waiting time is applied to an application, and the steps thereof include at least: acquiring collection identification data; providing input printing range corresponding to the collection identification data; and identifying the collection according to the collection The data and the corresponding printing range generate target data; the target data is transmitted to the printing system to print the target data; the waiting time for completing the printing of the target data is judged according to the response message sent by the printing system; the waiting time is displayed.

The system and method disclosed in the present invention are as above, and the difference from the prior art is that the present invention transmits the target data to the printing system after the target data is generated according to the acquired identification data and the corresponding printing range. According to the response message sent by the printing system, the waiting time for printing the target data is judged, so as to solve the problems existing in the prior art, and the technology for letting the user know the time to wait for the pickup after the printing operation is reached. efficacy.

The features and embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, which are sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to fully understand the technical means to which the present invention solves the technical problems, and The achievable effects of the present invention.

The present invention can provide a device for the user to operate to print the collection and understand the waiting time for printing completion. The collections provided by the present invention include, but are not limited to, books, newspapers and magazines, and the like; in addition, the devices used by the users of the present invention are usually mobile devices, such as smart phones, tablets, notebook computers, and the like. However, the device of the present invention is not limited to the above.

The system operation of the present invention will now be described with reference to the system architecture diagram of the present invention which provides remote printing and displays print latency as described in the first drawing. As shown in FIG. 1, the system of the present invention includes a bibliographic acquisition module 110, a range input module 120, a data generation module 130, a data transmission module 140, a time determination module 160, and a display module 180. In some embodiments, the system of the present invention may also include an additional position determination module 190.

The bibliographic acquisition module 110 is responsible for acquiring one or more collection identification materials. The collection identification data provided by the present invention may be a series of words, numbers, and/or symbols, or may be data represented by one-dimensional or two-dimensional barcodes. Collection identification data can be used to identify collections, usually in a one-to-one relationship with collections, such as the International Standard Book Number ( ISBN), title/file title, or the own code of the collection unit, but The collection identification data provided by the present invention is not limited to the above.

The bibliographic acquisition module 110 can provide the user with the complete collection identification data, and can also provide the user to capture or scan the collection identification data as an image file through the image capturing unit (not shown) of the device used, and will be The generated image file is subjected to subsequent processing to obtain the collection identification data, for example, to perform image recognition on the image file, thereby converting the image file into the collection identification data.

The bibliographic acquisition module 110 can also provide the user with the collection of the collection identification data, and then obtain the collection identification data according to the search result. For example, the bibliographic acquisition module 110 can display the search interface, so as to provide the user with the desire to input in the search interface. Searching all or part of the collection identification data of the book as a search data, and after the user inputs the search data or completes the input of the search data, the collection server 400 queries the collection identification data to match the search data, and The user is selected to select the collection to be printed, so as to obtain the collection identification information of the collection to be printed by the user.

The range input module 120 is responsible for providing a print range in which the input corresponds to each of the collection identification data. In general, the range of the input of the range input module 120 can be the page number of the collection, but the invention is not limited thereto. For example, the range input module 120 can also be connected to the collection server 400 to download the user. A preview of all the inner pages of the collection to be printed, that is, a preview of all the inner pages of the collection having the collection identification data obtained by the bibliographic acquisition module 110, and providing the user with the preview image to select the desired print The inner page; the range input module 120 can also provide the user to select the area to be printed on the preview image of the displayed inner page after displaying the preview image of all the downloaded inner pages, and the selected area is The scope of printing proposed by the invention. The collection identification data may correspond to one or more printing ranges, and the invention is not particularly limited.

The data generation module 130 is responsible for generating one or more target data according to the collection identification data obtained by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 and the range input printing module 120 providing the input printing range. If the printing range is the page number of the collection, the data generating module 130 can download all the contents of the inner page that the user wants to print according to the collection identification data and the printing range (for example, the image file of the inner page or the information recorded on the inner page). And combining the downloaded content into one or more target materials, wherein the data generating module 130 may generate one target data for each collection, or may combine all the image files to generate one target data. If the printing range is part of the content of the inner page of the collection, that is, the printing range is selected by the range input module 120 to be displayed on the preview image of the inner page of the collection, the data generating module 130 can identify the data according to the collection. And the page number including the pages in the respective printing ranges respectively includes the image files of the pages within the respective printing ranges, and the range input module 120 is provided according to the range selected by the user on the preview page of the collection page, one by one The image file of the downloaded inner page corresponds to extracting the content that the user wants to print, and combines the captured content into one or more target materials.

The data transmission module 140 is responsible for transmitting the target data generated by the data generation module 130 to the printing environment 300, thereby generating the target data generated by the target data generation module 130.

There may be only one printing system 310 in the printing environment 300, and the printing system 310 can receive the target data transmitted by the data transmission module 140, print the received target data, and will be associated with the received target data. The corresponding response message is transmitted back to the data transmission module 140. The response message proposed by the present invention may be the time from the current time to the start of printing the target data or the completion of printing the target data (in the present invention, the time from the current time to the completion of printing the target data is referred to as "waiting time". ), it can also contain the printer information of the printer in the printing system and the printing resource information, wherein the printer message can be the printer model or the printer performance, etc., and the printing resource message includes printing. The number of pages waiting to be printed in the queue of the printer in the system, etc., can be used to evaluate the data of the waiting time by printing the message of the printer and printing the resource information.

If the printing environment 300 includes a plurality of printing systems, the data transmission module 140 may first request a response message from each printing system, and select a printing system according to the response message sent by each printing system, and The target data generated by the data generation module 130 is transmitted to the selected printing system for printing. The data transmission module 140 can select the printing system according to the waiting time of each printing system evaluated by the time determination module 160, but the invention is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the data transmission module 140 can also select the printing system closest to the user through the position determining module 190, that is, select the printing system closest to the current position. Alternatively, the printing system may be selected according to the waiting time of each printing system evaluated by the time counting module 160 and the distance between the current position and the position of each printing system.

The time judging module 160 is responsible for determining the waiting time for the printing system to print the target data according to the response message transmitted by the printing environment 300. For example, when the response message includes a waiting time, the time judging module 160 can directly determine the waiting time according to the response message. When the response message does not include the waiting time, but includes the printer message and the printing resource message, the time judging module 160 The waiting time can be calculated according to the printer message and the printing resource message. For example, the time judging module 160 can first obtain the printer performance according to the model of the printer included in the printer message, for example, each column of the printer. The time required to print a page is calculated based on the number of pages waiting to be printed included in the printed resource message and the printer performance included in the printer message. Wherein, when the printer message does not include the printer model but directly includes the printer performance, the timing determination module 160 does not need to obtain the printer performance according to the printer model.

The display module 180 is responsible for displaying the waiting time determined by the time judging module 160.

The location determination module 190 can obtain the current location of the user, that is, the location of the device used by the user. Generally, the position determining module 190 can obtain the current position of the user through an external positioning system (not shown), but the manner in which the position determining module 190 obtains the current position of the user is not limited to the above, for example. The location determining module 190 can also provide a plan view of the collecting unit and provide the user with a current location or the like in the plan view to obtain the current location of the user.

The location determination module 190 can also obtain the location of each of the printing systems in the printing environment 300 via the collection server 400 or an external positioning system.

The position determination module 190 can also determine the distance between the current location of the user and the location of each printing system.

Next, an operational system and method of the present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment. Referring to FIG. 2A, a flow chart of a method for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time is provided. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the collection unit is a library, but the invention is not limited thereto.

When a user desires to use the present invention in a library to print certain collections of a library, the user first needs to install the application 100 containing the present invention on the device in which it is used. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the device used by the user is a smart phone.

After the user installs and executes the application 100 on the device used by the user, the bibliographic acquisition module 110 may first acquire the collection identification data (step 210). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the bibliographic acquisition module 110 can provide the user to use the image capturing unit on the device used by the user to capture the collection identification data of the collection to be printed, such as ISBN, so that the bibliographic acquisition module 110 The collection identification data of the collection to be printed by the user can be obtained. The bibliographic acquisition module 110 can also provide the user with relevant information for inputting the collection to be printed in the search interface, such as ISBN, full or partial title or file title, full or partial author name, publication year, etc. The group 110 can go to the collection server 400 to find a collection that matches the data input by the user, and display relevant information of the found collection in the search interface, such as ISBN, full title or file title, complete author name The publication year, the abstract, and the like are provided by the user to select the collection to be printed, so that after the user selects the collection, the bibliographic acquisition module 110 can obtain the collection identification data of the collection selected by the user.

After the bibliographic acquisition module 110 acquires the collection identification data (step 210), the range input module 120 can provide a print range corresponding to the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 (step 220). In this embodiment, the range input module 120 can provide a page number for the user to input the page to be printed in the input interface. For example, when the user wants to print the 28th page, he can input "28". Users can enter "4~13" when they want to print pages 4 to 13. The range input module 120 may also download the preview image of the inner page of the collection with the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 to the collection server 400, and display the downloaded preview image in the input interface to provide the user. Enter the page number of the page to be printed in the input interface by selecting the preview image. The range input module 120 may also provide a page number for the user to input the page in the collection to be printed in the input interface, and then download the book acquisition module 110 from the collection server 400, as shown in the flow of the "2B". The acquired collection of the collection identification data conforms to the preview of the page within the input page number, and displays the downloaded preview image in the input interface (step 222), thereby providing the user to select the desired print on the preview image. Region (step 226).

After the range input module 120 provides the print range corresponding to the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 (step 220), the data generation module 130 can obtain the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110. And generating the target data by the printing range corresponding to the acquired collection identification data (step 230). In this embodiment, the data generation module 130 can download the content of the inner page of the collection with the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 to the collection server 400, and combine the contents of all the downloaded internal pages. A target data.

After the data generating module 130 generates the target data according to the collection identification data acquired by the bibliographic acquisition module 110 and the printing range corresponding to the acquired collection identification data (step 230), the data transmission module 140 can transmit the data generation module. The target data generated by the group 130 is printed into the printing environment 300, whereby the target data transmitted by the data transmission module 140 is printed by the printing system 310 in the printing environment 300 (step 250).

If the printing environment 300 includes other printing systems in addition to the printing system 310, after the data generating module 130 generates the target data, the data transmission module 140 may first select one of the printing environments 300 to print. The system (step 240) retransmits the generated target data to the selected printing system (step 250). In this embodiment, it is assumed that each printing system can receive the target data through the wireless communication technology. Thus, the position determining module 190 can determine the current position and each print of the user according to the received signal strength of each printing system. The system distance and select the printing system with the strongest signal strength, that is, select the printing system closest to the user, such as printing system 310, and transfer the target data to the selected printing system.

After the data transmission module 140 transmits the target data to the printing system 310 in the printing environment 300, the time determining module 160 can return the response message of the data transmission module 140 according to the printing system 310 that receives the target data. The printing system 310 completes the waiting time for printing the target material (step 260). In this embodiment, after the data transmission module 140 transmits the target data to the printing system 310, the printing system 310 can actively transmit a response message to the data transmission module 140, and the printing system 310 can also be as shown in FIG. 2C. As shown in the flow, after the data transmission module 140 transmits the request message to the printing system 310 to request a response message to the printing system 310 (step 262), the printing system 310 passively transmits the response message to the data transmission module 140. The time determination module 160 can determine the waiting time according to the response message (step 266). If the response message includes the type of the printer included in the printing system 310 and the type and page of the data waiting to be printed by the printing system 310 (that is, the data in the column of the printer included in the printing system 310) The time judging module 160 can find out the performance of the printer according to the model of the printer included in the response message by searching for the built-in performance correspondence table, and according to the type of data waiting to be printed. The number of pages and the performance calculation wait time of the printer. For example, the performance of the printer is 2 seconds for each page of monochrome printing, and 5 seconds for each page of color printing. If there are three documents waiting for printing The first pen is 69 pages of black and white (monochrome) printing, the second pen is 19 pages of color printing, and the third pen is 80 pages of black and white printing. The waiting time calculated by the time judging module is 393 seconds (69x2+19x5+80x2).

After the time judging module 160 determines, according to the response message of the printing system 310 received by the data transmission module 140, the printing system 310 determines the waiting time for printing the target data (step 260), the display module 180 can display the time judgment. The waiting time determined by the module 160 (step 270), thus, through the present invention, the user can print the collection to be printed using the device used, and the time to wait for printing can be known through the present invention.

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that after the target data is generated according to the acquired identification data and the corresponding printing range, the target data is transmitted to the printing system for printing, and according to the column. The technical means of determining the waiting time for printing the target data by the response message sent by the printing system, by means of which a technical means can be used to solve the photocopying or printing of the library collection in the prior art, which needs to be in the collection location and the photocopying machine or the printing table. The machine travels back and forth, and may also need to wait in line for the technical effect of letting the user know the time to wait for the pickup after the printing operation.

Furthermore, the method for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time of the present invention can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software, or can be implemented in a centralized manner or in different components in a computer system. Distributed implementation of a number of interconnected computer systems.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any modification of the form and details of the practice of the present invention, which is a matter of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, is a patent protection of the present invention. range. The scope of the invention is to be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

100‧‧‧Application
110‧‧‧Bibliographic acquisition module
120‧‧‧ Range Input Module
130‧‧‧ Data Generation Module
140‧‧‧Data Transmission Module
160‧‧‧Time Judging Module
180‧‧‧ display module
190‧‧‧Location judgment module
300‧‧‧Printing environment
310‧‧‧Printing system
400‧‧‧ Collection Server Step 210‧‧‧ Access to Collection Identification Data Step 220‧‧‧ Provide input of print range corresponding to collection identification data Step 222‧‧‧ Display the inside page of the collection corresponding to the collection identification data Preview step 226‧‧‧ Provide print selection on preview image Step 230‧‧‧Generate target data based on collection identification data and corresponding print range Step 240‧‧‧Select printing system Step 250‧‧‧Transfer Target data to the printing system to print the target data Step 260‧‧‧Respond to the completion of the printing of the target data according to the response message sent by the printing system Step 262‧‧ Request the response message from the printing system Step 266‧ ‧Respond to the waiting time according to the response message Step 270‧‧ Show waiting time

Figure 1 is a system architecture diagram of the present invention for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time. 2A is a flow chart of a method for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time according to the present invention. FIG. 2B is a flow chart of a method for inputting a print range according to the present invention. Figure 2C is a flow chart of the method for judging the waiting time of the present invention.

Step 210‧‧‧Get collection identification information

Step 220‧‧‧ Provide the input of the print range corresponding to the collection identification data

Step 230‧‧‧Generate target data based on collection identification data and corresponding print range

Step 240‧‧‧Select printing system

Step 250‧‧‧ Transfer target data to the printing system to print the target data

Step 260‧‧‧Respond to the waiting time for printing the target data according to the response message sent by the printing system

Step 270‧‧‧ shows waiting time

Claims (10)

A method for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time is applied to an application, the method comprising at least the following steps: acquiring at least one collection identification data; providing input corresponding to each of the collection identification data Scope; generating a target data according to each of the collection identification data and each corresponding printing range; transmitting the target data to at least one printing system to print the target data; determining according to the response message sent by the printing systems The waiting time for printing one of the target materials is completed; and the waiting time is displayed. The method for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time as described in the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the step of obtaining the collection identification data is to provide a collection according to each collection identification data, and obtain the collection according to each search result. Each of the collections identifies the information, provides input of the collection identification materials, or provides photographing or scanning each of the collection identification materials as image files, and processes each of the image files to generate the collection identification materials. The method for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time as described in claim 1, wherein the step of determining the waiting time for printing the target data is determined according to the response message sent by the printing system. The waiting time is determined according to the waiting time included in the response messages, or the waiting time is calculated according to the printer information and the printing resource information included in the response messages. The method for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time as described in the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the step of providing a printing range corresponding to each of the collection identification materials respectively includes displaying and identifying each of the collections. A preview of each inner page of the collection corresponding to the data, and a step of selecting the print range on the preview of each of the inner pages. A method for providing remote printing and displaying a printing waiting time as described in claim 1 of the patent application, wherein the step of transmitting the target data to the printing systems to print the target data further includes a basis for each of the columns Each of the response messages requested by the printing system and/or the step of selecting a printing system based on the current location and the location of each of the printing systems. A system for providing remote printing and displaying print waiting time is applied to an application, the system comprising at least: a bibliographic acquisition module for acquiring at least one collection identification data; and a range input module for Providing a printing range corresponding to each of the collection identification data; a data generation module for generating a target data according to each of the collection identification data and each corresponding printing range; Transmitting the target data to at least one printing system to print the target data; the time determining module is configured to determine, according to the response message sent by the printing systems, a waiting time for printing the target data; and A display module for displaying the waiting time. The system for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the bibliographic acquisition module provides the collection of the collection according to the collection identification data, and obtains each collection according to each search result. Identifying the data, providing input of the collection identification materials, or providing shooting or scanning each of the collection identification materials as image files, and processing each of the image files to generate the collection identification materials, thereby obtaining the collection identification materials. The system for providing remote printing and displaying the printing waiting time as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the time judging module judges the waiting time according to the waiting time included in the response messages, or according to the The waiting time is calculated by responding to the printer message and the print resource message contained in the message. A system for providing remote printing and displaying a printing waiting time as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the range input module is further configured to display a preview of each inner page of the collection corresponding to each of the collection identification materials. A map is provided and selected on a preview of each of the inner pages to select the print range. A system for providing remote printing and displaying a printing waiting time as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the data transmission module is further configured to respond to each of the response messages requested by each of the printing systems and/or The printing system is selected according to the current location of the system including one of the positioning systems and the location of each of the printing systems.