JP2009070241A - Printer-designating printing method using mobile terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer-designating printing method capable of increasing the security of a transmitted document by specifying a recipient. <P>SOLUTION: The printing method using a mobile terminal device includes: a transmitting means 10 for transmitting at least a document for transmission and the address information of the mobile terminal device; a retaining means 12 for retaining the document transmitted; a notification means 14 for notifying the mobile terminal device that there is the transmitted document according to the address information transmitted; a mobile terminal device 16 for transmitting and receiving information; an authentication means 18 for authenticating the mobile terminal device 16; and a printing means 20 for responding to instruction information for instructing printing, sent from the mobile terminal device 16 that has been notified by the notification means, and for printing the transmitted document retained by the retaining means, based on the instruction information if the mobile terminal device 16 has been authenticated by the authentication means 18. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a printer-designated printing method using a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone, and more particularly to a technique for printing / distributing confidential materials while maintaining a high level of safety.

  Due to recent technological evolution, mobile phones are required to have not only the original call function, but also a multifunctional role as an Internet terminal, such as browsing the website while connecting to the Internet and sending and receiving e-mails. Yes.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a technology that enables output and printing of a file in a terminal on another intranet using a portable terminal device and a file server on an external network. Patent Document 2 relates to a method of printing a document on a server using a mobile terminal device, and establishes a first communication channel between the mobile terminal device and the printer and a second communication channel between the printer and the server, An encrypted message including an identifier sent from is sent and security is improved by using this identifier. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228688 discloses a technique that allows a document content to be visually confirmed before being printed by sending not only a document ID but also a document thumbnail to a mobile terminal device.

JP2002-251356 JP 2003-202978 A JP 2006-146734 A

  However, in the conventional printing method using a portable terminal device, a method for specifying a recipient is not considered, and the sender erroneously sends the document ID and the URL address of the document storage destination to a third party. Even a third party can display or print a highly confidential document, and there is a safety problem in printing and distributing the document.

  The present invention solves the above-described conventional problems, and provides a printer-designated printing method, a printer-designated printing system, and a printer-designated printing method that can specify the recipient and secure the sent document. For the purpose.

  The printing method designated by the printer according to the present invention is a printing method using a portable terminal device, and includes a sending means for sending at least a sending document and address information of the portable terminal device, and a holding means for holding the sent sending document. A mobile terminal device for sending and receiving information, a notification means for notifying the mobile terminal device that there is a delivery document based on the sent address information, an authentication means for authenticating the mobile terminal device, and the notification means When the mobile terminal device is authenticated by the authentication unit in response to receiving the instruction information for instructing printing of the sent document from the mobile terminal device that has received the notification, the holding unit based on the designation information And a printing unit that prints the held delivery document.

  Preferably, the sending means further sends authentication specifying information for specifying an authentication method of the mobile terminal device, and the authentication means authenticates the mobile terminal device according to the authentication specifying information.

  Preferably, the notifying unit generates an authentication code for the portable terminal device, notifies the generated authentication code to the authenticating unit, and notifies the portable terminal device of storage information indicating a storage location of the authentication code. The terminal device receives an authentication code from the outside in accordance with the notified stored information, and the authentication means authenticates the mobile terminal device depending on whether or not the authentication code of the mobile terminal device matches the authentication code notified from the notification means. I do.

  Preferably, the sending unit further sends printing condition information indicating a printing condition of the sending document, and the printing unit prints the sending document when the printing condition is satisfied. The printing condition is the number of times of printing or a printable period. Preferably, the printing means includes display means for displaying the sent document before printing the sent document, and the document to be printed can be visually confirmed before printing.

  Preferably, the sending means further sends output mode specifying information for specifying any output mode of printing, display, printing and display of the sent document, and the printing means sends the sent document according to the output mode information. Is output. Preferably, the notification means sends an e-mail to the mobile terminal device.

  A printer-designated printing system according to the present invention receives at least a first information processing device that sends a sending document and address information of a mobile terminal device, receives a sending document and address information from the first information processing device, and receives address information. The second information processing apparatus that notifies the portable terminal device that there is a transmission document according to the information processing apparatus, and the portable terminal that receives the notification from the second information processing apparatus and sends instruction information for instructing printing of the transmission document based on the notification In response to receiving the instruction information from the device and the portable terminal device, the portable terminal device is authenticated, and if the authentication is successful, the delivery held by the second information processing device based on the instruction information And an output device for outputting a document.

  Preferably, the first information processing apparatus further sends authentication specifying information for specifying an authentication method of the mobile terminal device, and the output device authenticates the mobile terminal device according to the authentication specifying information. Preferably, the second information processing device generates an authentication code of the mobile terminal device, notifies the generated authentication code to the output device, and notifies storage information indicating a storage location of the authentication code to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device receives the authentication code from the external server according to the notified storage information, and the output device determines whether the authentication code of the mobile terminal device matches the authentication code notified from the second information processing device. To authenticate the mobile terminal device. Preferably, the first information processing apparatus further sends printing condition information indicating a printing condition of the sending document, and the output apparatus prints the sending document when the printing condition is satisfied.

  A printing method using a portable terminal device according to the present invention includes a step of sending at least a sending document and address information of the portable terminal device, a step of holding the sent sending document, and sending based on the sent address information. Notifying the portable terminal device that there is a document; sending instruction information for instructing printing of a sent document based on the notification; receiving the instruction information from the portable terminal device; In response to this, when the portable terminal device is authenticated, the method includes a step of printing a delivery document held based on the instruction information.

  According to the present invention, the mobile terminal device is authenticated, and the delivery document is output only when the authentication is performed. Therefore, when the recipient designated by the sender matches the actual recipient, Output is possible, and printing and viewing of the sent document by a third party not designated by the sender is prevented. Furthermore, since the sent document can be printed as long as there is an output device that can communicate with the portable terminal device, the convenience can be improved.

  The best mode of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, a printing method when a mobile terminal device, an output device having a printing function, and a server are connected to a network is used as an example.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing method using a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the printing method by the portable terminal device is sent by sending means 10 for sending at least a sending document and address information of the portable terminal device, holding means 12 for holding the sent sending document, and sent. Notification means 14 for notifying the mobile terminal device that there is a delivery document based on the address information, mobile terminal device 16 for transmitting and receiving information, authentication means 18 for authenticating the mobile terminal device 16, and notification by the notification means When the portable terminal device 16 is authenticated by the authenticating means 18 in response to receiving the instruction information for instructing printing from the received portable terminal device 16, it is held by the holding means 14 based on the instruction information. Printing means 20 for printing the sent document.

  Preferably, the notification unit 14 generates an authentication code for the mobile terminal device 16, notifies the generated authentication code to the authentication unit 18, and notifies the mobile terminal device 16 of storage information indicating a storage location of the authentication code. To do. The mobile terminal device 16 receives the authentication code from the external server 22 in accordance with the notified storage information, and the authentication unit 18 determines whether or not the authentication code of the mobile terminal device 16 and the authentication code notified from the notification unit 14 match. The mobile terminal device 16 is authenticated.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of the printing method shown in FIG. Here, an example in which authentication of the mobile terminal device is performed using an external server will be described. As shown in the figure, the printer-designated printing method using a portable terminal such as a cellular phone is a print distribution management for receiving information on a sent document and a destination address from the sender terminal 30 and the sender terminal 30 such as a personal computer. The server 40 includes an authentication code storage Web server 50 that stores an authentication code related to the recipient mobile terminal, a recipient mobile terminal 60 that can send and receive data, and an output device 70. Further, a firewall 80 may be interposed to monitor unauthorized access to the authentication code storage Web server 50 connected to the network NW.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the output device 70. The output device 70 analyzes the received mail from the recipient mobile terminal 60 to acquire the document ID (identification) and the document storage URL, the document ID acquired from the mobile information acquisition unit 71, Document data acquisition means 72 for acquiring document data and its attribute data based on the document storage destination URL, authentication data acquisition means 73 for acquiring authentication information of the recipient portable terminal 60, and whether or not the recipient portable terminal 60 is authenticated. An authentication determination unit 74 for determining and a print output unit 75 for printing document data in response to the authentication result of the authentication determination unit 74 are provided.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram functionally showing each part of the printing method shown in FIG. The sender terminal 30 includes sending means 31 for sending at least the document data and the e-mail address of the recipient portable terminal 60. As will be described later, the sending means 31 can include authentication specifying information for specifying the authentication method of the recipient portable terminal 60, and output the document data only to the recipient portable terminal that matches the authentication method intended by the sender. Can be made possible.

  The print distribution management server 40 includes a registration unit 41 for registering sent document data, an e-mail address, and the like, and a document ID / storage destination URL generation unit 42 for generating the ID of the sent document data and the storage destination URL of the document data. Authentication code generating means 43 for generating a temporary authentication code of the recipient portable terminal, authentication code sending means 44 for sending the temporary authentication code to the authentication code storage Web server 50, and a storage location of the temporary authentication code from the authentication code storage Web server 50 URL acquisition means 45 for acquiring a URL, an e-mail including information such as a document ID, a document storage destination URL, and an authentication code storage destination URL, and an e-mail creation / transmission means 46 for transmitting the e-mail to the recipient portable terminal 60 Sending means for sending document data, temporary authentication code, etc. to output device 70 Including 7.

  The authentication code storage Web server 50 includes an authentication code acquisition unit 51 that acquires a temporary authentication code from the print distribution management server 40, a URL generation unit 52 that generates a temporary authentication code storage destination URL, and a temporary authentication code to the print distribution management server 40. URL sending means 53 for sending the storage destination URL, authentication code presenting means 54 for presenting an authentication code in response to an access from the recipient portable terminal 60, an authentication code and / or an access after the access to the authentication code is confirmed A change means 55 for deleting the URL or changing it to a dummy code is included.

  The recipient portable terminal 60 includes an e-mail receiving unit 61 that receives an e-mail from the print distribution management server 40, an authentication code acquiring unit 62 that accesses the authentication code storage Web server 50 and acquires an authentication code therefrom, and an output device 70. Includes a transmission means 63 for transmitting an e-mail or the like.

  The output device 70 receives the electronic mail information transmitted from the transmission means 63 of the recipient mobile terminal 60, analyzes the electronic mail, acquires the document ID and the document storage URL, the document ID and the document Document data acquisition means 72 for acquiring document data from the storage destination URL, authentication data acquisition means 73 for acquiring authentication data from the print distribution management server 40 and authentication data from the recipient mobile terminal 60, and authentication of the recipient mobile terminal 60 Authentication determining means 74 for performing the above-described processing, and a print output means 75 for outputting the document data based on the determination result of the authentication determining means 74

  Next, the operation of the printing method designated by the printer according to this embodiment will be described. First, when the sender specifies the document to be sent and the recipient, the document data and the e-mail address of the recipient mobile terminal 60 are sent from the sending means 31 of the sender terminal 30 to the print distribution management server 40. The registration means 41 of the print distribution management server 40 registers the sent document data and the e-mail address and holds them.

  Next, the document ID and document storage destination URL generation unit 42 generates a document ID of the registered document data or generates a document data storage URL. Further, the authentication code generating means 43 generates a temporary authentication code for authenticating the recipient portable terminal 60, and the authentication code sending means 44 sends the generated temporary authentication code to the authentication code storage Web server 50.

  The authentication code acquisition unit 51 of the authentication code storage Web server 50 acquires a temporary authentication code, and the URL generation unit 52 generates a storage URL for the temporary authentication code. Then, the URL sending means 53 sends the generated URL to the print distribution management server 40, and the URL acquisition means 45 obtains the authentication code storage destination URL.

  The e-mail creation / transmission means 46 of the print distribution management server 40 creates an e-mail to be transmitted to the recipient mobile terminal 60. The e-mail includes information such as the document name of the sent document data, the document ID, and the URL for storing the temporary authentication code. The recipient who has received the e-mail accesses the authentication code storage Web server 50 from the recipient portable terminal 60 according to the storage location URL, and acquires the authentication code therefrom. The authentication code storage Web server 50 grasps the access status to the authentication URL such as the number of accesses and the date and time, and when the access of the recipient is confirmed, deletes the authentication code storage URL or changes the authentication code to a dummy code.

  Next, the document ID, the document storage destination URL, and the temporary authentication code are transmitted from the recipient portable terminal 60 to the output device 70. Preferably, the document ID and the document storage destination URL are transmitted by infrared communication or other communication means mounted on the recipient portable terminal 60, and the temporary authentication code is obtained by key input of the authentication data acquisition means 73 of the output device 70. To be acquired. However, the transmission method is not limited to the above means. For example, even a temporary authentication code may be transmitted by the infrared communication means. In response to the print instruction from the recipient portable terminal 60, the output device 70 accesses the print distribution management server 40 and acquires the document data and the temporary authentication code. Then, it is determined whether or not the authentication codes sent from the print distribution management server 40 and the recipient portable terminal 60 match. If they match, printing of the print output means is permitted. If they do not match, printing is performed. Is prohibited.

  In this way, by authenticating the recipient portable terminal, it is possible to prevent the document data from being printed or distributed by a third party not intended by the sender. As a result, security can be maintained even for highly confidential document data. The document data may be text data, image data, compressed data thereof, or encrypted data.

  In the above printing method, an authentication code storage Web server is used for authentication of the recipient mobile terminal. Of course, the authentication method is not limited to this. As the authentication method, the sender can specify a desired one from a plurality of authentication methods. Furthermore, the sender can specify printing distribution conditions and permit printing only when the conditions are met. Hereinafter, an example in which a sender performs printing by specifying an authentication method, printing conditions, and the like will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. The description of the overlapping parts with the above printing method is omitted.

  A document to be sent and a recipient are specified (step S1), and information such as document data and a mail address of the recipient mobile terminal is sent from the sender terminal 30 to the print distribution management server 40 and registered (step S1). S2).

  6A and 6B are examples of the user input interface screen of the print distribution management server. FIG. 6A shows a state before user input, and FIG. 6B shows a state after user input. As shown in FIG. 6A, the user inputs a file name of a document to be printed and distributed. Next, a document print distribution condition is selected. As the print distribution condition, for example, the number of times printing is permitted and the printable period can be specified. If not specified, the number of days may be set in advance. Next, the recipient's email address is entered.

  Further, a desired authentication method is selected from a plurality of authentication methods. For example, as the authentication method, temporary authentication using the above-described external server, authentication by collating mail contents, and authentication using IC card information mounted in a mobile phone are prepared. Temporary authentication is a method in which a sender issues a temporary authentication code only to a recipient and specifies a person who knows an accurate temporary authentication code as a recipient. For example, as described above, a method using an external server is used. is there. The authentication based on the collation of the mail contents refers to the mail information stored in the print waste management server 40, for example, the mail information of the recipient, the mail reception date and time, the mail title, etc. If they match, the recipient is identified. Information such as the recipient's e-mail address changes easily when e-mail is forwarded to a third party, so it is easy to use as an index of authentication. In the mobile phone IC card authentication, the IC card of the mobile phone and personal identification information recorded in advance on the server are compared, and if they match, the recipient is specified. However, since it is assumed that personal identification information is registered in the server in advance for IC card authentication of a mobile phone, it cannot be used unless the recipient is registered. The sender decides which authentication method to use in consideration of the confidentiality of the document, the performance of the recipient's mobile terminal, and the like. Finally, a message to the recipient is entered if necessary.

  In the example shown in FIG. 6B, the file name of the sent document is “sent document 001.ppt”, the print distribution condition is “permit once applied”, and the recipient's mail is “Fuji.Taro@keitai. ne.jp ”Also, since there is no designation for the printable period, the default period is XX days. The temporary authentication code is selected as the authentication method for specifying the recipient.

  The print distribution management server 40 determines the authentication method of the recipient mobile terminal according to the authentication method selected by the sender (step S3). When temporary authentication is selected (step S4), the print distribution management server 40 generates a temporary authentication code as described above (step S5), and the authentication code storage Web server 50 stores the authentication code storage URL corresponding thereto. Is generated (step S6). On the other hand, when mail content verification or mobile phone IC card authentication is selected, information indicating these authentication methods is described in the electronic mail and transmitted to the output device.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of registration of management information in the print distribution management server. As shown in the figure, the sent document name, the document ID, the document storage destination URL, the sender and recipient addresses, the number of printable times, the printable period, the authentication method, the authentication code storage destination URL, and the recipient mobile terminal The e-mail content and the transmission date and time are registered. The document data includes such registration information as attribute data, and when the output device 70 downloads the document data from the print distribution management server 40, the information is also acquired in a batch. For example, the user input shown in FIG. 6B corresponds to the leftmost example of FIG.

  The e-mail created by the print distribution management server 40 is received by the recipient portable terminal 60 (step S8). FIG. 8 is a display example of the screen of the recipient mobile terminal. FIG. 8A shows an example of an e-mail from the print distribution management server, and FIG. 8B shows an example of a temporary authentication code acquisition screen. The e-mail in FIG. 8A describes a sender, a document name, a document ID, an authentication code storage destination URL, a print distribution condition message, and the like according to the management information shown in FIG. Furthermore, in order to improve the operability of the receiver, an authentication code acquisition method and a warning message are also added. Further, the authentication code acquisition screen in FIG. 8B shows a state where the storage destination URL of the authentication code storage Web server 50 is accessed and as a result, the authentication code “123456” is acquired. In addition, it is described that the authentication code is not reissued as a cautionary note. Further, an example in which the authentication code is transmitted to the output device 70 is described.

  In response to receiving the e-mail, the recipient portable terminal 60 instructs the output device 70 to print document data (step S9). This print instruction includes transmitting e-mail information describing at least a document ID to be printed to the output device 70.

  The output device 70 acquires document data from the print distribution management server 40 in response to a print instruction from the recipient mobile terminal (step S10). The document data includes acquisition of attribute data as shown in FIG. If it is temporary authentication, the authentication determination means 74 (refer FIG. 3) of the output device 70 will acquire an authentication code, for example from the key input of a recipient portable terminal, and will determine whether the acquired authentication code corresponds. . The authentication code may be acquired by analyzing the browser display shown in FIG. If the authentication method is other than the authentication code, the recipient portable terminal is authenticated according to the authentication method included in the attribute data. For example, when the authentication method is collation of mail contents, the electronic mail information from the recipient portable terminal 60 is collated with the electronic mail information of the print distribution management server 40. In the case of mobile phone IC card authentication, the personal information of the recipient mobile terminal is verified.

  If the recipient portable terminal 60 is authenticated, the authentication determination unit 74 permits printing to the print output unit 75 (step S12). If the recipient portable terminal 60 is not authenticated, printing is prohibited (step S13).

  The print distribution management server 70 has printing conditions registered together with the document data, and the print distribution management server 70 automatically deletes document data that does not match the conditions of the number of prints and the print period according to the print conditions. can do. For example, when the print permission count is set to 1, the print distribution management server 40 deletes the transmitted document data after transmitting the document data to the output device 70 once. Even if a second print request is made from the output device 70, the document data cannot be transmitted, and printing is impossible. If a printable period is specified, the document data cannot be automatically deleted and printed after the printable period has passed. When the print distribution management server 70 does not determine the print condition, the authentication determination unit 74 or the print output unit 75 determines whether the print distribution condition specified by the sender based on the attribute data is satisfied. In this case, if the condition is not satisfied, printing is not executed.

  FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a printing method designated by a printer in the case where mail content verification or an IC card of a mobile phone is used for authentication. This printing method includes the sender terminal 30, the print distribution management server 40, the recipient portable terminal 60, and the output device 70, and does not require an authentication code storage Web server unlike the case of temporary authentication.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram functionally illustrating the configuration of each unit illustrated in FIG. 9. The sender terminal 30 includes sending means 31 for sending the document data and the recipient's e-mail address to the print distribution management server 40 via a user input interface as shown in FIG.

  The print distribution management server 40 creates a registration means 41 for registering document data and its attribute data, a document ID / document destination URL generation means 42 for generating a document ID and a document storage URL, and an e-mail. Is sent to the recipient portable terminal 60, and sending means 47 for sending document data and attribute data in response to access from the output device.

  The recipient portable terminal 60 includes an e-mail receiving unit 61 that receives an e-mail from the print distribution management server 40, and a transmitting unit 63 that transmits the e-mail to the output device 70.

  Document data, the e-mail address of the recipient portable terminal 60, and the like are sent from the sender terminal 30 to the print distribution management server 40, and information input by the user is registered in the registration means 41 of the print distribution management server 40. Next, the document ID / storage destination URL generation means 42 generates the document ID or the storage destination URL of the document data, and the e-mail creation / transmission means 46 generates the e-mail in which the document ID / storage destination URL is described. This is transmitted to the recipient portable terminal 60.

  The e-mail receiving means 61 of the recipient portable terminal 60 receives the e-mail from the print distribution management server 40 and notifies the recipient that the document data has been sent. Next, the sending means 63 issues a document data print instruction. As for this print instruction, in addition to the document ID / storage URL described in the mail, the mail content necessary for authentication and the IC card information of the portable terminal are transmitted. As a transmission method, a cable such as a USB or near field infrared communication can be used in addition to the network.

The portable information acquisition unit 71 of the output device 70 acquires information such as the document ID / storage destination URL, and the document data acquisition unit 72 converts the document data to be printed based on the document ID / storage destination URL into the print management distribution server 40. Obtained from.
Next, the authentication data acquisition means 73 acquires the mail content verification or IC card authentication data required for authentication from the recipient portable terminal, and further acquires the data required for authentication from the attribute data of the document data.

  Next, the authentication determination means 75 collates the acquired authentication data and determines whether or not the recipient portable terminal is authenticated. When the authentication is made, the authentication determination unit 74 permits the print output unit 75 to print and prints the document data. On the other hand, if the authentication cannot be performed, the authentication determination unit 74 prohibits the printing of the print output unit 75 and the document data is not printed.

  Here, the output device 70 may include a display function for displaying document data in addition to the print function. For example, when the recipient portable terminal is authenticated, the document data may be displayed on the display before printing or instead of printing the document data.

  Further, the output mode of the document data may be specified by the sender as one of the print distribution conditions. For example, the sender can set display output, display and print output, or print output as the attribute of the document data.

  Further, in order to increase the safety of the temporary authentication code, it may be combined with a security matrix table or a one-time password generation device distributed in advance to each user.

  Furthermore, in the verification by mail content verification, the code data generated from the mail delivery time etc. is embedded in the mail to check the consistency of the embedded code data and the mail time stamp, and the user transfers to the output device It may be possible to confirm that the received email has not been transferred to a third party or changed.

  The preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above. However, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment according to the present invention, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims. Deformation / change is possible.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the printing system using the portable terminal device which concerns on the Example of this invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of the printing method shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of the output device illustrated in FIG. 2. FIG. 3 is a block diagram functionally illustrating each part of the printing method illustrated in FIG. 2. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the printer designation | designated printing method when a sender specifies an authentication method. FIG. 6A shows an example of a user input interface screen of the print distribution management server. FIG. 6A shows a state before user input, and FIG. 6B shows a state after user input. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of registration of management information in a print distribution management server. FIG. 8A is an example of an electronic mail from the print distribution management server, and FIG. 8B is an example of a temporary authentication code acquisition screen. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the other printer designation | designated printing system of a present Example. FIG. 10 is a block diagram functionally illustrating the configuration of each unit of the printing method illustrated in FIG. 9.

10: Sending means 12: Holding means 14: Notifying means 16: Mobile terminal device 18: Authentication means 20: Printing means 22: External server 30: Sender terminal 40: Print distribution management server 50: Authentication code storage Web server 60: Receiving Mobile terminal 70: output device 80: firewall 71: portable information acquisition means 72: document data acquisition means 73: authentication data acquisition means 74: authentication determination means 75: print output means

Claims (14)

A printing method using a mobile terminal device,
Sending means for sending at least sending document and address information of the mobile terminal device;
Holding means for holding the sent delivery document;
A mobile terminal device for sending and receiving information;
Notification means for notifying the mobile terminal device that there is a delivery document based on the sent address information;
An authentication means for authenticating the mobile terminal device;
In response to receiving instruction information for instructing printing of a sent document from the portable terminal device that has received the notification from the notification unit, the designation information includes the designation information when the authentication unit has authenticated the portable terminal device. Printing means for printing the delivery document held by the holding means based on
Printing method. The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the sending unit further sends authentication specifying information for specifying an authentication method of the mobile terminal device, and the authentication unit authenticates the mobile terminal device according to the authentication specifying information. The notification unit generates an authentication code of the mobile terminal device, notifies the generated authentication code to the authentication unit, and notifies storage information indicating a storage location of the authentication code to the mobile terminal device,
The mobile terminal device receives the authentication code from the outside according to the notified stored information,
The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the authentication unit authenticates the mobile terminal device based on whether or not the authentication code of the mobile terminal device matches the authentication code notified from the notification unit. The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the sending unit further sends printing condition information indicating a printing condition of the sending document, and the printing unit prints the sending document when the printing condition is satisfied. The printing method according to claim 4, wherein the printing condition includes a number of copies to be printed or a printable period. The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the printing means includes display means for displaying the sent document before printing the sent document. The sending means further sends output mode specifying information for specifying any output mode of printing, display, printing and display of the sending document, and the printing means outputs the sending document according to the output mode specifying information. The printing method according to claim 6. The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the notification unit sends an email to the mobile terminal device. A first information processing device for sending at least a sending document and address information of the mobile terminal device;
A second information processing apparatus that receives a sending document and address information from the first information processing apparatus and notifies the portable terminal device that there is a sending document according to the address information;
A mobile terminal device that receives a notification from the second information processing device and sends instruction information for instructing printing of a sent document based on the notification;
In response to receiving the instruction information from the portable terminal device, the portable terminal device is authenticated, and if the authentication is successful, a delivery document held by the second information processing device is output based on the instruction information. An output device to
Having a printing system. 10. The printing according to claim 9, wherein the first information processing apparatus further sends authentication specifying information for specifying an authentication method of the mobile terminal device, and the output device performs authentication of the mobile terminal device according to the authentication specifying information. system. The second information processing device generates an authentication code for the portable terminal device, notifies the generated authentication code to the output device, and notifies the portable terminal device of storage information indicating a storage location of the authentication code,
The mobile terminal device receives the authentication code from the external server according to the notified storage information,
The printing system according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the output device authenticates the mobile terminal device based on whether or not the authentication code of the mobile terminal device matches the authentication code notified from the second information processing device. The printing system according to claim 9, wherein the first information processing apparatus further sends printing condition information indicating a printing condition of the sending document, and the output apparatus prints the sending document when the printing condition is satisfied. A printing method using a mobile terminal device,
Sending at least the sending document and the address information of the mobile terminal device;
Holding the sent delivery document; and
Notifying the mobile terminal device that there is a delivery document based on the sent address information;
Sending instruction information for instructing printing of a delivery document based on the notification from the mobile terminal device;
Printing a delivery document held based on the instruction information when the portable terminal apparatus is authenticated in response to receiving the instruction information from the portable terminal apparatus;
A printing method comprising: The printing method according to claim 13, further comprising: authenticating the mobile terminal device, wherein the authenticating step authenticates the mobile terminal device according to the authentication method of the mobile terminal device included in the sending step. .

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