WO2017101550A1

WO2017101550A1 - Nfc-based printing method and printing system

Info

Publication number: WO2017101550A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/100224
Authority: WO
Inventors: 曾昭兴
Original assignee: 广州市沃希信息科技有限公司
Priority date: 2015-12-15
Filing date: 2016-09-27
Publication date: 2017-06-22
Also published as: CN105573684A; WO2017101455A1

Abstract

An NFC-based printing method, comprising the steps of: choosing a print file and print information, and conducting an NFC connection between a mobile terminal and a printing terminal; and the printing terminal receiving the print file and the print information, and printing the print file according to the print information, wherein the print information is generated by the print file, and information about the print file and the print information are stored in the mobile terminal. The method has simple operations, and a file can be directly printed without using a USB flash disk or a network, and a user's file needing to be printed can be pre-stored in a printing terminal, thereby saving time. In addition, the present invention provides an NFC-based printing system.

Description

NFC-based printing method and printing system

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of printers, and in particular, to an NFC-based printing method and a printing system.

Background technique

[0002] The traditional printing service requires the customer to take a storage medium such as a USB flash drive, a mobile hard disk, etc. to print in the store for printing, which is laborious and laborious, and brings a lot of troubles, such as carrying a storage medium and occasionally infecting a virus, a file. There is no guarantee of security. The long queues in the print shop will be very anxious. The print shop owner has no time to consider printing different needs, and it is difficult to pay for change.

[0003] Chinese patent No. 201410798034.X, published a "Cloud Printing Service System", which discloses a cloud printing service system, including a printing platform, a client, a merchant, and a cloud server, which needs to be printed. The file information and the merchant information are stored in the printing platform, and the client uploads the required print file to the cloud server through the client and encrypts it, adds the file information to be printed and completes the online payment, and the merchant downloads the to-be-printed from the cloud server through the merchant end. The file is printed.

technical problem

[0004] The traditional mode mainly requires the print terminal to connect to the cloud server and download files from the cloud server for printing. On the one hand, the printing terminal must be able to connect to the wide area network or the local area network. The customer needs to click to select the cloud server content to the print shop, and then operate the corresponding information to the printer for printing operation. The operation steps are more inconvenient to use; on the other hand, the download file It takes a certain amount of time to reach the printing terminal, which may cause the customer to wait and consume more time.

Problem solution

Technical solution

[0005] Based on the above situation, the present invention provides an NFC-based printing method and printing system, which directly transmits a print file and print information to a corresponding printing terminal through NFC, so that the user can use the U disk and the Internet without using the U disk. Next, the file can be printed, and the peer can also reduce the waiting time for the customer to download the file from the cloud when there is a network.

[0006] An NFC-based printing method, comprising the steps of: [0007] selecting a print file and printing information, performing an NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; the printing terminal receiving the print file and the printing information, and printing the printing file according to the printing information; The print file is generated; the print file information and the print information are stored in a mobile terminal.

[0008] the mobile terminal uploads first geographic location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding second geographic location information, and select a distance between the plurality of the second geographic locations and the first geographic location. From the nearest printing terminal, the mobile terminal prestores the print file and the print information to the nearest printing terminal through a cloud server.

[0009] The mobile terminal uploads first geographic location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding second geographic location information, and the distance between the distances of the plurality of the second geographic locations and the first geographic location Obtaining the distance between the two times; obtaining print waiting time consumption by using the printing information; selecting a printing terminal that is least consumed between the printing terminal and the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal pre-storing the printing through the cloud server The file and the print information are to the print terminal that consumes the least amount of time; the time consumption = distance between daytime consumption and print waiting time.

[0010] After performing the NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal, the printing terminal reads the pre-stored print file and the print information, and prints the print file according to the print information.

[0011] If the printing terminal acquires one or more pieces of the printing information, the paper-out direction of the printing file corresponding to each piece of the printing information is rotated and adjusted, so that the printing paper-out direction can distinguish different printing documents.

[0012] In addition, the present invention also discloses a printing system using the above method.

[0013] An NFC-based printing system, the system comprising: a mobile terminal and a printing terminal;

[0014] The mobile terminal is composed of a print information storage module and an NFC connection module; the print storage module is configured to select a print file and generate print information, and store the print file and the print information in the mobile terminal; the NFC request module is configured to print the file according to the print file. And printing information to generate NFC request information;

[0015] the printing terminal is composed of an NFC response module and a printing module; the NFC response module receives the

After the NFC requests the information, establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; the printing module printing the printing file according to the obtained printing information.

Advantageous effects of the invention Beneficial effect

Compared with the prior art, the printing method provided by the present invention is simple in operation, and the printing file and the printing information are directly transmitted to the corresponding printing terminal by using the NFC technology, so that the user can use the U disk and the Internet without using the U disk. Print the file. At the same time, the print information can be pre-stored to the nearest or the shortest print terminal according to the location information, which greatly reduces the waste of the user.

Brief description of the drawing

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic flow chart of an embodiment of an NFC-based printing method according to the present invention;

2 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an NFC-based printing system.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Near field communication (near field)

Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology. Devices that use NFC technology (such as mobile phones) can exchange data in close proximity to each other. They are integrated by contactless radio frequency identification (RFID) and interconnection technology. It has evolved to enable mobile payment, e-ticketing, access control, mobile identification, anti-counterfeiting and other applications by integrating inductive readers, inductive cards and peer-to-peer communication on a single chip. In the existing NFC application scenario, NFC is not used in the printing terminal, so that the printing user can print, and does not need to bring a USB flash drive or send a file on the Internet, which can bring great convenience.

[0020] The solution of the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the embodiments thereof.

[0021] FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of a printing method of the present invention.

[0022] As shown in FIG. 1, the method in this embodiment includes the following steps:

[0023] S101: Select a file to be printed and generate print information, and perform NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal.

[0024] The user generally selects a file to be printed by a mobile terminal (such as a mobile phone) (such as selecting a doc, pdf, etc. format file), and then selects a print information to be printed according to the needs of the user (such as playing 3 copies, or selecting a certain One page or a few pages for printing, etc.). After the contents of all the files to be printed are selected, the print file and the print information are stored in the mobile terminal. In general, mobile terminals can set NFC, in the printer The terminal can also be configured with NFC, and the user can connect the mobile terminal to the printing terminal by using the NFC of the mobile terminal to contact the NFC of the printing terminal.

[0025] As an operating platform, when the user selects a print file to generate print information, the system can generate a related service fee based on the print information. Thereafter, the mobile terminal can generate a payment request message

S102: The printing terminal receives the print file and the print information, and prints the print file according to the print information.

[0027] When the mobile terminal is connected to the printing terminal, it sends the print file and the print information to the printing terminal. At this time, the mobile terminal must be close to the printing terminal until the printing file and the printing information are transmitted. Currently, NFC operates at a distance of 13.56 MHz within a distance of 20 cm and has a transmission speed of 106 Kbit/s, 212 Kbit/s or 424 Kbit/s. Most of the files that need to be printed can be transferred and printed directly in this way.

[0028] In general, the printing terminal can be installed in a print shop, an office or a canteen, and some public places with printing requirements; these printing terminals are connected to respective local area networks or wide area networks, and are assigned network addresses (IPs) connected to the printing terminals. ) Or connect a password, etc. If you use NFC, you do not need to install a network, which is relatively low cost. However, if you use the network, the mobile terminal can upload the files that need to be printed to the cloud server first. At this point, the role of NFC is to verify the connection and no file transfer is required.

[0029] As a preferred embodiment, each of the mobile terminals (mobile phones) of the present invention can transmit its own geographical location information through the positioning system such as GPS or Beidou as the first geographical location information. The printing terminal set at each location may be the second geographical location information in the system or service identification location according to its network address or actual address. That is, each printing terminal has a specific geographical location information, and multiples may have a plurality of different first geographical location information. Of course, if the distance is particularly close, a plurality of printing terminals can use one geographical location information.

[0030] When the mobile terminal prints the terminal access point information and connects to the printer terminal, it can process according to the current network condition or the storage condition of the file: 1. The file is in the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal can be sent to the printing terminal through the NFC, and The printing terminal is allowed to perform a printing operation; 2. The file is in the cloud, the file information and the printing information are pre-stored by the mobile terminal to the cloud server, and the cloud server performs a printing operation on the printing terminal according to the corresponding file and the printing information. [0031] Since the customer has to print more or relatively large files each time, it is obviously wasteful to transfer the files from the mobile phone or the cloud server to the printing terminal after printing the scene, and the customer will choose to compare himself. Convenient print terminal for printing. Therefore, the printing terminal can be selected first by the mobile terminal, and the file is first transmitted to the printing terminal through the cloud server.

[0032] As a better example, the customer compares the first geographic location information of the mobile terminal with the second geographic location information of each print terminal, and if the distance between the first geographic location information and the second geographic location information is the shortest, Then, the printing terminal corresponding to the second geographical location information is set as the optimal printing terminal, and the file to be printed and the printing information are sent to the printing terminal for pre-storing. In this way, the customer can directly print using the NFC of the mobile terminal and the NFC of the printing terminal, which can save the time for the printing terminal to download the file on the spot. Since the first geographical location information of the mobile terminal can be changed, the server can also send the file corresponding to the nearest printing terminal according to the actual situation. In addition, the customer uses the first geographic location information of the mobile terminal to compare with the second geographic location information of each printing terminal, and the distance between the first geographic location information and each second geographic location information, so that the distance/user current can be The speed is used to obtain the distance between the user and the user; if the user is 0.5km away from the print shop and the walking speed is 5km/h, the distance between the users is O.lh; and the print information is used to obtain the print waiting time. If the user prints 1000 pages and can print 2 pages per second, the print wait time is 1000/2=500s; if there are other users waiting, you must join other users' print waits吋between. In this way, you can get the daytime consumption = distance between daytime consumption and print waiting time. At this time, the cloud server or the mobile terminal can send the print file and the print information to the print terminal with the least consumption at the time, thereby eliminating the time when the user arrives at the print terminal and still needs to download the file and then print. Since the first geographical location information of the mobile terminal can be changed, the server can also send the file to the printing terminal that consumes the least amount of time according to the actual situation.

[0033] In addition, it is also possible for the printing terminal to accept the printing information of a plurality of mobile terminals around, and the distance between each user and the printing time is different, and the printing time of most users is shorter than the walking time. Therefore, if the files are also printed in the order of the day, some users will need to wait for the previous user files to print, which is a waste of time. In order to solve the problem, the printing terminal may obtain a plurality of the first geographical location information corresponding to the mobile terminal corresponding to the mobile terminal, and calculate the distance consumption of the mobile terminal respectively; The print priority of the mobile terminal is listed as the highest. [0034] After the customer prints in a different place, since many people need to ask people, this will waste more time. At this time, the navigation route map can be generated by the first geographical location information and the second geographical location information.

[0035] There is also a special case: a printing terminal is in a block, and it is possible to acquire print files of several users and then print them in advance. At this time, all the documents will be printed out in one direction, and when the user comes to pick up their own files, they need to sort the printed paper to find their own printed documents. Therefore, if the printing terminal acquires one or more pieces of print information, the paper-out direction of the print file corresponding to each of the print information is rotated and adjusted so that the print-out direction can distinguish different print files. It is possible to make a complete print file have a corresponding paper orientation, reducing the user's time.

[0036] In the same way, the mobile terminal can generate an associated service fee according to the print information, and display it to the user for payment determination. When the user determines the payment, the mobile terminal transmits the payment information to the print terminal. The print terminal can print according to the payment message.

[0037] The method mentioned in this embodiment can be applied to an electronic device having a touch function and a network connection function.

[0038] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an NFC-based printing system of the present invention.

[0039] An NFC-based printing system, the system comprising: a mobile terminal and a printing terminal;

[0040] The mobile terminal is composed of a print information storage module and an NFC request module; the print storage module is configured to select a print file and generate print information, and store the print file and the print information in the mobile terminal; the NFC request module is configured to print the file according to the print file. Information generates NFC request information;

[0041] The printing terminal is composed of an NFC response module and a printing module; after receiving the NFC request information, the NFC response module establishes a connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; and the printing module performs the printing file according to the printing information. print.

[0042] The mobile terminal further includes a first location acquiring module, configured to acquire first geographic location information of the mobile terminal; the printing terminal further includes a second location acquiring module, configured to acquire second geographic location information of the printing terminal; Using the first geographical location information of the mobile terminal, comparing with the second geographical location information of each printing terminal, if the distance between the first geographical location information and the second geographical location information is the closest, printing the corresponding second geographical location information The terminal is set as an optimal printing terminal, and the file to be printed and the printing information are sent to the printing terminal for pre-storing. In addition, in actual application, there may be recent printing There are a number of print files in front of the machine waiting to be printed, while the relatively distant printer is idle. This server can roughly calculate the time spent waiting for printing and the time it takes to go to a farther printer. A printer that prints out the file faster prompts. That is, the mobile terminal acquires the first geographical location information to the time consumption of the plurality of printing terminals, where the daytime consumption=distance consumption/printing waiting for the daytime consumption, and the distance consumption time is the customer (mobile terminal) moving to the printing terminal. Between the elapsed time of the distance, the printing waits for the daytime consumption for the printing time of the printing terminal. Selecting a printing terminal with a minimum of consumption between the printing terminal and the mobile terminal, and prompting the printing terminal, the printing file information and the printing information are also sent to the printing terminal with the least consumption.

[0043] In this way, the customer can directly print the file directly to the printing terminal through the NFC, which can save the printing terminal from downloading the file on the spot.

[0044] As a better implementation example, the mobile terminal of the present invention further includes a request payment module, configured to generate request payment information according to generating print information according to the print file;

[0045] The printing terminal or the cloud server may include a payment response module for controlling the printing terminal to print the file to be printed according to the printing information after the user accepts the request for payment information and pays.

Embodiments of the invention

An embodiment of the present invention provides an NFC-based printing method, including the steps of: selecting a print file and printing information, performing an NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; receiving the print file and the printing information by using the printing terminal, and according to Printing information is printed on the print file; the print information is generated by the print file; and the print file information and the print information are stored in a mobile terminal. After performing the NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal, the printing terminal reads the pre-stored print file and the print information, and prints the print file according to the print information. In this way, the customer can directly print the file directly to the printing terminal through the NFC of the mobile terminal, which can save the printing terminal from downloading the file on the spot.

[0047] The mobile terminal uploads the first geographic location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding second geographic location information, and select a distance between the distances of the plurality of the second geographic locations and the first geographic location. In the recent printing terminal, the mobile terminal prestores the print file and the print information to the nearest printing terminal through a cloud server. The mobile terminal uploads first geographical location information, and several The printing terminal uploads a plurality of corresponding second geographic location information, and obtains a distance between the distances of the second geographic location and the first geographic location; and obtains print waiting by using the printing information. Between the plurality of print terminals and the print terminal having the least consumption among the mobile terminals, the mobile terminal pre-stores the print file and the print information through the cloud server to the print terminal with the least consumption among the print terminals ; the daytime consumption = distance between daytime consumption + print waiting for daytime consumption. In this way, the print content can be sent to the print terminal in advance through the mobile terminal, so that the user can conveniently print.

[0048] If the printing terminal acquires one or more pieces of the printing information, the paper-out direction of the printing file corresponding to each piece of the printing information is rotated and adjusted, so that the printing paper-out direction can distinguish different printing files. It is possible to make it possible to quickly distinguish files in the case of printing a plurality of documents.

[0049] An NFC-based printing system, the system comprising: a mobile terminal and a printing terminal; the mobile terminal is composed of a printing information storage module and an NFC connection module; the printing storage module is configured to select a printing file and generate printing information, which will print The file and the print information are stored in the mobile terminal; the NFC requesting module is configured to generate the NFC request information according to the print file and the print information; the print terminal is composed of the NFC response module and the print module; and the NFC response module receives the NFC request information. Establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; the printing module printing the printing file according to the obtained printing information.

[0050] In this embodiment, the working principle of each module or terminal is consistent with the method embodiment of the present invention, and is not repeated herein.

The above-mentioned embodiments are merely illustrative of several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that various modifications and improvements can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Industrial applicability

[0052] The present invention connects the mobile terminal, the cloud server, and the printing terminal to the network; the customer can directly print the file directly to the printing terminal through the NFC of the mobile terminal, which can save the printing terminal to download the file on the spot; It is also possible to send the print content to the print terminal in advance through the mobile terminal, so that the user can print conveniently, and has industrial applicability.

Claims

Claim

[Claim 1] An NFC-based printing method, comprising the steps of:

Selecting a print file and print information to perform an NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the print terminal; the print terminal receives the print file and the print information, and prints the print file according to the print information; the print information is printed by the print File generation; the print file information and the print information are stored in a mobile terminal.

[Claim 2] The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal uploads first geographical location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding plurality of second geographical location information, and select a plurality of locations. a printing terminal that is closest to the first geographic location in the distance of the second geographic location, and the mobile terminal prestores the print file and the printing information to the nearest printing terminal through a cloud server.

[Claim 3] The printing method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal uploads the first geographical location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload the corresponding plurality of second geographical location information, and the plurality of locations are Determining the distance between the distance of the second geographic location and the first geographic location; obtaining print waiting time consumption by using the printing information; selecting a plurality of printing terminals and the mobile terminal The least-printing terminal, the mobile terminal pre-stores the print file and the printing information through the cloud server to the printing terminal that consumes the least amount of time; the time consumption=distance consumption/print waiting waiting time consumption.

[Claim 4] The printing method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein, after performing the _NFC connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal, the printing terminal reads the pre-stored print file and the printing information. And printing the print file according to the print information.

[Claim 5] The printing method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein, if the printing terminal acquires two or more pieces of the printing information, the printing file corresponding to each of the printing information is The paper output direction is rotated and adjusted so that the printout direction can distinguish different print files.

[Claim 6] An NFC-based printing system, the system comprising: a mobile terminal and a printing terminal; The mobile terminal is composed of a print information storage module and an NFC connection module; the print storage module is configured to select a print file and generate print information, and store the print file and the print information in the mobile terminal; the NFC request module is configured to use the print file and the print information. Generate an NFC request f π息;

The printing terminal is composed of an NFC response module and a printing module. After receiving the NFC request information, the NFC response module establishes a connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal. The printing module is based on the obtained printing information. Print the file for printing.

[Claim 7] The printing system according to claim 6, wherein the mobile terminal uploads first geographic location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding plurality of second geographic location information, and selects a plurality of locations. a printing terminal that is the closest distance of the second geographic location to the first geographic location, and the mobile terminal prestores the print file and the printing information to the nearest printing terminal through a cloud server.

[Claim 8] The printing system according to claim 6, wherein the mobile terminal uploads first geographic location information, and the plurality of printing terminals upload corresponding plurality of second geographic location information, and through a plurality of locations Determining the distance between the distance of the second geographic location and the first geographic location; obtaining print waiting time consumption by using the printing information; selecting a plurality of printing terminals and the mobile terminal The least-printing terminal, the mobile terminal pre-stores the print file and the printing information through the cloud server to the printing terminal that consumes the least amount of time; the time consumption=distance consumption/print waiting waiting time consumption.

[Claim 9] The printing system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein after the NFC response module receives the NFC request information, establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the printing terminal; Taking the pre-stored print file and print information, and printing the print file according to the print information.

[Claim 10] The printing system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein if the printing terminal acquires two or more pieces of the printing information, the printing file corresponding to each of the printing information is The paper output direction is rotated and adjusted so that the printout direction can distinguish different print files.

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