JP2002169671A - Mobile telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile telephone enabling to instruct data printing with ease from a logically or physically movable mobile telephone. SOLUTION: A mobile telephone 90 can mount a printing instruction button 220 to demand execution of printing to an already specified data output device (a printer). With pushing the button 220, data indicating a printing instruction to instruct output the data (on a region 204A) specified on a display panel 212 from the specified position (a URL in a region 206A) is transmitted. The transmitted data is transmitted to the specified printer via a network such as a communication network or the Internet, so that the mobile telephone 90 can start printing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile phone,
In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile phone capable of instructing output of information specified using a mobile information terminal such as a mobile information terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the recent rapid improvement of semiconductor wiring technology and other manufacturing technologies, information processing terminals are becoming smaller and lighter. Speaking of a portable information processing terminal, a device smaller than an A4 or B5 size notebook PC, for example, a PDA (Personal Digital Assis) called a palm size or “palm top” is used.
tants) and other multifunctional mobile terminals are in circulation.

With the advance of such technology, recently, a mobile phone having a part of the function of a multifunctional mobile terminal has appeared. For example, recent mobile phones equipped with a network function such as an Internet access function in addition to a conversation function are becoming widespread. With this Internet access function, an environment where various contents on the Internet can be browsed has been established.

[0004]

However, the display screen of a mobile phone is small due to its portability, and it has been difficult to display and browse a large amount of contents. That is, the mobile phone does not have information processing capabilities such as information accumulation, recording, and management that are inferior to computers. This means that mobile phones may only have a small display panel, and may even support only alphanumeric and character displays. This is because they cannot.

An object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone capable of easily giving an instruction to print data in consideration of the above fact.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an instruction means for instructing printing of data specified from storage information stored in a storage device connected to a communication line. It is characterized by having.

The present invention is applied to a portable telephone for instructing data printing via a communication line such as the Internet.
That is, data is stored in the storage device connected to the communication line, and there is a case where a designated data from the stored storage information is instructed to be printed by a mobile phone. According to the present invention, an instruction unit for instructing data printing is provided. As this instruction means, a mechanical push switch provided on the mobile phone, such as a toggle switch, can be employed. For this reason, it is possible to give a print instruction only by pressing the instruction means without performing complicated processing.

[0008] The mobile phone includes display means, and the instructing means selects an instruction area for instructing printing of the data displayed on the display means.

When a new structure is required for a mobile phone,
The cost may be high. Therefore, mobile phones are LCD
And so on, and an instruction area for instructing data printing is displayed on the display means. When the pointing area is selected by the pointing means, the pointing means can be provided without a mechanically novel structure.

[0010] The mobile phone includes an input unit, and the instructing unit instructs to print data specified by the storage position information input to the input unit.

In the first place, the user designates data to be requested to print in advance. For example, the user specifies storage location information of data to be printed from a mobile phone connected to a communication line. The mobile phone is not limited to a mobile phone directly connected to a network such as the Internet, but may be any mobile phone that can be connected to a network such as the Internet via a network using a wireless or wired communication line. For example, there are a plurality of sites that provide information on the Internet and the like. In order to obtain information from the site, the user specifies data using a mobile phone. Instructing means instructs to print the designated data based on the storage position information of the data input to the input means, thereby enabling the designated data to be printed.

[0012] In the portable telephone, the instruction means may include:
The data is instructed to be printed by the printing device specified by the position information of the printing device that prints the data, which is input to the input unit.

The data specified by the user is desired to be printed at an arbitrary place. Therefore, by giving an instruction to print the data to the printing device specified by the position information of the printing device that prints the data, which is input to the input device by the input device, the printing instruction can be made at an arbitrary place. .

The portable telephone includes communication means for communicating with a printing device that prints the data, and the portable telephone is configured to perform communication with the printing device specified by position information obtained by communication with the printing device by the communication means. Data can be instructed to be printed.

It is a complicated process for the user to further input the position information for printing the data by the user. Therefore, as represented by communication means such as bluetooth, communication means for communicating with a printing apparatus that prints data specifies the printing apparatus by automatically obtaining the position information of the printing apparatus. Instruct printing of data. This makes it possible to easily indicate the position of the printing apparatus for printing without requiring complicated processing.

The print instruction may be executed immediately after the print instruction by the instruction means, or may be executed after a lapse of time. When printing is performed with the lapse of time, printing may be performed after a predetermined period of time, or printing may be performed immediately after a print instruction is issued to perform printing with a lapse of time. The instruction may be given again.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to a computer network system in which a mobile phone can be connected to a wireless or wired network.

FIG. 1 schematically shows the configuration of a computer network system used for implementing the present invention. Computer network system 80
May be, for example, a distributed network system. In a distributed network environment, each user does not need to particularly recognize the location of resource objects such as programs and data. Also, the procedures executed by the computer are distributed and held on the network and managed. For example, a process running on one computer on a network can call and execute a procedure of a process running on another computer.

In this embodiment, the computer network system 80 uses the Internet (LAN) or other small-scale network as a communication medium.
calArea Network) and a communication network 92 such as a public telephone network constructed and provided by telephone companies in each country or region. The communication network 92 includes, for example, a PSTN (Public Switched Telephony).
e Network) or ISDN (Integrated Service Digital)
Network). Further, as the communication network 92, PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) and PHS (P
Various types of wireless telephone networks, such as personal handyphone systems, may be included. Network 88 and communication network 92
Are interconnected by a gateway system 89.

The communication network 92 includes a base station 94 having a function of transmitting and receiving data to and from the mobile phone 90. As a result, the mobile phone 90 can communicate with another mobile phone via the communication network 92 or with another terminal or server via the communication network 92, the gateway system 89, and the network 88.

The communication network 92 has a function of transmitting and receiving data to and from the mobile phone 90, an authentication function of a caller ID, and a function of providing position data to mobile phones registered in cells of each base station (not shown). It is preferable that functional services such as functions can be provided.

A network 88 represented by the Internet includes a user computer 8 operated by a user.
2, and each server computer is a modem, router, TA (Terminal Adapter: Terminal A)
dapter) and the like. These computers are configured to be able to exchange information via a network 88 by mutual communication.

In a network 88 such as the Internet or respective small-scale networks, interconnection is possible via a communication device 86 such as a modem or a router.
P / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet P
Mutual access is possible according to a predetermined communication protocol such as rotocol. Therefore, the computer network system 80 has a configuration in which countless host terminals and user terminals are connected.
The system is a so-called server-client system in which some computers operate as “servers” that provide various resource services for a fee or free of charge, and others operate as “clients” requesting resource services from servers. Function as

One example of the server is a WWW server in a WWW system constructed on a TCP / IP network such as the Internet. WWW server is HT
An HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) resource object such as ML (Hyper Text Markup Language) content can be provided. As other examples of the server, there are a mail server, a database server, a file server, and the like that provide an electronic mail transmission / reception service for each user account.

In the present embodiment, various server computers include a distribution server 81, a processing server 83, a print server 85, a site server 87, and a gateway system 89. The detailed operation of each of these servers will be described later.
The processing server 83 stores various data and transfers the specified data to the print server 85 (so-called site). The processing server 83 transmits the data specified by the mobile phone to the distribution server 8.
1 and converted into a data format that can be processed by the print server 85 and transmitted to the print server 85. The print server 85 processes and outputs the received data as described below. .

The site server 87 stores and holds various information so that it can be provided via the network 88. The gateway system 89 includes the network 8
8 and the communication network 92 are interconnected. The site server 87 is similar to the distribution server described above,
A site that distributes other content. The distribution server 81 stores the data storage location without storing the data, for example, the location (URL) of the site server 87.
May be stored, and data may be read from the server at that position.

Although each of these server computers will be described as one unit, the present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of servers may be used, or these servers may be configured together. . Particularly, in order to clarify the configuration according to the present invention, in the following description, the distribution server 81 is referred to as a data distribution device 81, the processing server 83 is referred to as a data processing device 83, and the print server 85 is referred to as a data output device 85. Name.

A small-scale network such as a LAN may be operated by a specific organization such as a company, for example, and is connected to an external wide area network via a server such as a firewall (not shown). ,
Access can be restricted to external networks. When a LAN is owned and managed by a specific company, a large number of various contents related to the company such as documents and data in the company are stored in a server installed on the LAN. The client is permitted to access this type of server when it becomes clear through a predetermined authentication procedure that legitimate authority has been granted in the company.

The above-mentioned content means the content of electronic information itself, particularly the content of information handled in a computer and distributed in a network. The content includes information to be provided including various data such as text data, graphic data, and multimedia data.

The computer is provided with input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse for inputting instructions with the computer, and is provided with a display for displaying the results of processing by the computer. Note that the computer has a general and general hardware configuration, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

When data is transmitted and received via the network 88, any computer can be accessed by installing and activating a WWW browser on a computer or terminal. At this time, the access position (the data including the position of the access destination server and the like and the position of the information in the server and the like) is a URL (Unif
orm Resource Locator).

FIG. 2 shows a computer having the above configuration.
Regarding the exchange of information in network systems,
Shown in functional block diagram. This system can be configured by being classified into a mobile phone 90, a data distribution device 81, a data processing device 83, and a data output device 85.

As will be described in detail later, when looking at the flow of data output, the user specifies the storage position and output position of the data desired to be output on the mobile phone 90, and the data distribution device 8
1 (data transmission T1). The data distribution device 81 receives the data specified by the mobile phone 90 and transmits the data to the print server 85 (data transmission T2). Here, the data processing device 83 is a mobile phone 9
The data designated by 0 is received from the data distribution device 81, converted into a data format that can be output at the output position designated by the mobile phone 90, and transmitted to the data output device 85 (data transmission T3). The data output device 85 outputs the received data. This output may be started by an instruction (data transmission T4) from the mobile phone 90.

Such a computer network
By using the system 80, a user carrying the mobile phone 90 can make a data output request at an arbitrary place in a mobile environment. Hereinafter, each part of FIG. 2 will be described.

[Mobile Phone] As shown in FIG. 10, the mobile phone 90 is a device that can be carried by the user, and includes a ten key or other user input device 208 and an output device 212 such as a display panel for performing user feedback. Transmission / reception device 21 for performing data communication with a base station
0 and a wireless terminal device number storage unit 214 capable of uniquely identifying a terminal such as a telephone number. Further, the mobile phone 90 has various functions.

One of the functions is a command input function. The mobile phone 90 can input commands and data from the user in a format such as a numeric keypad, a menu button, or a voice input. In addition to commands and basic parameters, the user can also input position data for specifying the current location. Note that the position data input by the user can be used as a substitute for position data (eg, base station ID) given by a carrier of the communication network during a transmission frame.

Another function is a command transfer function. This is a function of transferring each command or data (such as parameters) input by the user input device 208 to the data distribution device 81. In addition, a query is issued to the data output device 85 or the data output device 8
The print command can be issued to the printers belonging to No. 5. The transfer method is not only through the communication network,
The data may be transmitted to the nearest host terminal using short-range wireless data communication such as IrDA (Infrared Data Association) or Bluetooth, and may be transferred via this host terminal.

As shown in FIG. 11, the mobile phone 90 can be provided with a print command button 220 for requesting the data output device 85 (printer) that has been specified to execute printing. By pressing the print command button 220, the data specified on the display panel 212 (on the area 204A) is specified at the specified position (area 2A).
In step 06A), data representing a print command instructing printing is transmitted. The transmitted data is transmitted to a designated printer (data output device 85) via a network such as a communication network 92 or a network 88. Thereby, printing can be started.

Although FIG. 11 illustrates the case where the print command button 220 is provided on the mobile phone 90, the present invention is not limited to mechanically adding a new button. For example, an instruction area may be provided on the display screen of the mobile phone 90. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, a display screen 201 including an instruction area 222 may be displayed at the time of input to the output device of FIG. The display screen 201 is an instruction function related to an output device, and includes a printer search button 224 and a print instruction button 226.

When the printer search button 224 is pressed, a function of searching for a printer (data output device 85) near the mobile phone 90 by wireless communication is realized. For example, when the printer search button 224 is pressed, Bluetoot
The communication between the mobile phone 90 and the nearby data output device 85 (printer) is performed by short-distance data communication such as h or communication by IrDA, the nearby data output device 85 is detected, and the URL of the data output device 85 is detected. Is received by the mobile phone 90 and the data output device 85 can be designated.

The print instruction button 226 is
1 is a function button similar to the print command button 220, and when pressed, the display panel 21
Data indicating a print command instructing to output the data specified on the area 2 (on the area 204A) at the specified position (the area 206A) is transmitted. The transmitted data is transmitted to a designated printer (data output device 85) via a network such as a communication network 92 or a network 88. Thereby, printing can be started. The print instruction button 226 may be pressed at the time of output to the data output device 85. In this case, printing of data (print output) is on standby in the data output device 85, and is started by pressing the print instruction button 226. by this,
Printing can be started when the user actually goes to the data output device 85.

[Data distribution device] Data distribution device 81
Is installed on a LAN (or intranet) in a company, for example, and can handle data and databases belonging to the company. However, the data and database are
The data may be stored on a local disk of the data distribution device 81 or may be present on another file server or database server connected via a network (an intranet is an Internet (TCP such as WWW). / IP network) is an information sharing system that incorporates technology on a company). The location of the data distribution device 81 on the network is, for example, a URL (Un
iform Resource Locator). Also,
Each data can also be specified by URL.

The data distribution device 81 is composed of an execution processing section and a program & data section, in substantially the same manner as the configuration of the data processing apparatus 83 described later (FIG. 3). Data distribution device 8
1, the position of the stored data is transmitted from the client. The data distribution device 81 stores and stores content.
It includes a management function capable of searching and listing, and an output function of extracting content from designated data using the management function and outputting and transmitting the content. Thus, the data at the position designated by the client can be extracted and output.

Specifically, the data distribution device 81 has a management function. That is, management of content from which data is created is performed. The content of this data is stored on a local disk of the data distribution device 81 or a remote disk of another server connected via a network. The data distribution device 81 acquires and transmits content in response to a request from the mobile phone 90 side.

[Data processing device] Data processing device 83
Is for customizing the data specified by the mobile phone 90 to the output format of the specified data output device and transmitting the data. Document processing such as customization may be executed in the data processing device 83 or CGI (Common Gatewow).
It may be entrusted to another server on the network 88 by using a remote procedure call such as ay Interface). In one example, the data processing device 83 converts the data according to the quality of the output service, such as color printing or printing out on high-quality paper.

FIG. 3 functionally shows the structure of the data processing device 83. The data processing device 83 includes an execution processing unit 83A and a program & data unit 83B. The execution processing unit 83A includes a data distribution device 81 and a data output device 85, and a program & data unit 83B.
And connected to. These units may be configured by a computer and connected so that information can be exchanged. Execution processing unit 8
3A is a functional unit that mainly performs information exchange with other computers and performs various processes. Also, the execution processing unit 83A
Also includes a functional unit for referring to and extracting various contents related to data processing. The program & data unit 83B is a functional unit that refers to and extracts various tables and data such as output conditions. As an example of what is included in the program & data section 83B, there is data such as a printer driver and a patch corresponding to the OS.

The data processing device 83 includes the data distribution device 8
1 transmits data. This data may not be output from the data output device 85 as it is. Therefore,
The data processing device 83 has a function of converting the data received from the data distribution device 81 to the data output device 85. That is, the data processing device 83 has a content processing function of analyzing the content received from the data distribution device 81, synthesizing data, and generating an output document;
It has a formatting function for rendering (print / image generation) for a designated output device such as a printer.

It should be noted that this data processing device can be provided with a billing function. This billing processing function is a function for requesting (collecting) a charge for the function for converting the received data to the data output device 85 from the user. Therefore, the user to be charged is a mobile phone user, and there are two types of collection forms as follows.

First, only the fee for the conversion function is collected. This is to set a charge in advance for the conversion function and request the user to do so. This request can be added, for example, when the user pays a mobile phone usage fee or the like. In addition, it is possible to request a settlement site established by a credit or loan company with user information.

Second, in addition to the fee for the conversion function, a fee generated until other data is obtained is collected and managed. First, in addition to the charge for the conversion function, the other charge that is incurred before the data is collected is that if a fee is charged for access at a paid site, etc., this is collected in addition to the charge for the conversion function. It is. The management here is to create a breakdown of the generated charges for each item. The breakdown includes the site used, data used, date and time of use,
There is used capacity.

[Data output device] Data output device 85
Can control information output devices such as printers existing on the network and control information output requests such as print requests issued on the network. Data output devices are operated within a specific company,
An organization outside the company may operate for a specific company. For example, a third party organization / organization outside the company may provide an output management service across a plurality of companies. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the data output device is connected at a predetermined location (IP address) on the network 88, but the location where the server is installed is not limited. The location of the data output device on the network is specified by, for example, a URL. This data output device 85 is the same as the data processing device 83 (FIG. 3).
In substantially the same way as described above, it comprises an execution processing unit and a program & data unit, and has various functions.

That is, the data output device 85 controls and manages information output processing such as printing out on a print sheet in response to an information output request from a client. As the information output device, in addition to a printer (local printer) locally connected to itself, other printers (remote printers) scattered on the network can be designated. It is preferable that the data output device 85 can provide functional services such as a function of searching and displaying a list of printers capable of outputting information and a function of relaying a request to the printer. In the present embodiment, a data output device 85 having a built-in printer as an information output device will be described as an example.

The printer is not limited to a printer for printing a document or an image processed by a computer, but may be constituted by a "multifunction machine" which provides various functions such as a copying function and a facsimile function and other various functions. Can be. The printer is installed in a public place where a relatively large number of people are likely to end, such as a convenience store, a university co-op, a gas station, and a service area of a highway, and is shared by an unspecified number of users.

An example of a function of the data output device 85 is a billing process. The data requested to be output on the mobile phone 90 may be data containing proprietary data or personal information. In order to prevent data from being misused or diverted by an unauthorized user, the data output device 85
By performing authentication on the data distribution device 81 and the data processing device 83, output data can be received. Then, the data output device 85 can charge, ie, charge, the user for a proper consideration and charge for the information output service in the mobile environment.

In this case, billing information such as a fee system is transmitted to the printer belonging to the data output device 85 designated as the output destination, and the printer calculates a section calculated according to the executed print output result. Billing information such as the amount is returned. The charge system may be switched according to the quality of the output service such as color print or printout on high quality paper.

The data output device 85 may centrally manage the charging information for all information outputs, or may perform only charging processing and transfer the charging information to the data distribution device 81 or the data processing device from which the data is provided. 83 may be transmitted. These authentication processing and billing processing are, for example,
This is performed via a communication network or a network.

It is to be noted that a user in a mobile environment, that is, a mobile phone 90 can directly send an output request to a designated printer, but can also issue an output request to the data output device 85. In the latter case, the data output device 85 functions as a proxy and redirects the print request to the designated printer.
For example, URL, token, Pu
The t method and the like can be used.

The data output device 85 sends a queue (print job queue) to the printer to which the data output device 85 belongs.
Including checking the status of the system. The status monitoring is performed, for example, via a communication network or a network. If the status monitoring reveals a printer that is already full and cannot accept new output requests, the data output device may remove the printer from the printer list.

The data output device 85 can have a function as a printer. One example of such a function is a print queue management function. The printer is
The print job requested from the mobile phone 90 is temporarily stored, and scheduling is performed. The stored jobs are processed after receiving the output instruction (or in a first-in first-out (FIFO) manner).

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described.

FIG. 4 conceptually shows information exchange between the server side and the user (client) side in the computer network system according to the present embodiment.

First, when a user requests information output of a site, the mobile phone 90 makes an access request to the data distribution device 81 (data D1), and the data distribution device 81 on the server side presents the information. Information, ie, screen format information that can be presented to the mobile phone 90, generates data, and transmits it to the user (data D2). The user designates a storage position of data requested to be printed while referring to the information transmitted from the data distribution device 81 (process S1), and designates a position where the data is printed (process S2). When the designation is completed, the user requests the printing (data D3).

The data can be stored by specifying the URL where the data is stored. Also,
The position where the data is printed can be determined by designating the URL of the data output device 85 such as a print station closest to the user. It should be noted that the position at which data is printed may be the data output device 85 and the mobile phone 90 if they have a common wireless communication function.
UR of the data output device 85 by transmitting and receiving information between
L can also be specified automatically.

In the present embodiment, a case will be described in which initial information is obtained and output is requested after the mobile phone 90 requests access to the data distribution device 81. However, the present invention is not limited to this. is not. For example, the user
The URL may be acquired in advance by the computer 84 and specified. Also, when the user has already acquired the URL that is the position of the data, it is only necessary to specify this.

The data distribution device 81 receives the data from the mobile phone 90 and identifies the content, that is, grasps the request from the user (process S3). This grasp is to recognize the storage position (URL) of the data designated by the user and the print position of the data (the position of the data output device 85). Upon grasping the request from the user, the data distribution device 81 generates the distribution setting data indicating the fact (process S4), and transmits the distribution setting data as the distribution request (data D4).

The data processing device 83 includes the data distribution device 8
1, the distribution request is received, the request is grasped, and the data output device 85 of the output destination included in the request is specified (process S5). Next, an output device driver for determining the output condition of the specified data output device 85 is obtained (processing S
6). The output device driver defines, for example, the specifications and language of the data output device 85, and is represented by a printer driver. Next, based on the obtained output device driver, the output format (for example, functions such as sorting and double-sided printing), the number of copies, the number of colors, the upper limit value and the allowable value of the resolution are determined by the specifications and the like of the data output device 85. Is set as the output condition (process S7). Next, based on the obtained output device driver, the data at the storage location (URL) specified by the user is converted according to the output condition (process S8). And
The converted data is transmitted as an output request (data D5).

The data output device 85 includes the data processing device 8
3 is received and output (converted data) (Step S9).

Next, the mobile phone 90 and the data distribution device 8
1. The processing of each unit of the mobile phone and the server computer 82 constituted by the data processing device 83 and the data output device 85 will be described in detail. First, in the mobile phone 90, FIG.
Is executed. Step 10 in FIG.
At 0, an initial display process is executed. In this initial display processing, when the user requests information output of the site, the mobile phone 90 makes an access request to the data distribution device 81 and displays the initial information provided to the user side, that is, the initial information provided on the mobile phone 90. Receive and display format information for the screen to be done. Therefore, the process of step 100 corresponds to the transmission process of the data D1 and the reception process of the data D2.

In the next step 102, it is determined whether or not the user's instruction is an output instruction (print instruction). Step 1 when the user instructs other than printing data
If the result is NO in step 02 and other processing is executed in step 110, the routine ends. On the other hand, if data printing is instructed by the user, the result in step 102 is affirmative, the process proceeds to step 104, where the storage location of the data to be printed is specified (URL), and in the next step 106, the specified data is printed. The position (location) is designated (URL). When the storage position and the print position of these data are designated, the process proceeds to the next step 108, where the data is transmitted to the data distribution device 81, and the present routine ends. Therefore, the process of step 104 corresponds to the above process S1, the process of step 106 corresponds to the above process S2,
The processing in step 108 corresponds to the transmission processing of the data D3.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a screen displayed on mobile phone 90 when data to be transmitted to data distribution device 81 is specified. As shown in FIG. 10, a screen 200, which is a designated screen, has a display area 20 related to the current time.
2, a display area 204 for output data and a display area 206 for the output device. Output data display area 204
Includes an input area 204A for specifying a storage location of output data by a URL. The display area 206 of the output device includes an input area 206A for specifying the position of the output device by a URL. In these input areas 204A and 206A, the operation unit 20 of the mobile phone 90 is provided.
Characters and symbols can be input by the operation of FIG.

Next, the processing of the data distribution device 81 will be described in detail. It should be noted that the data distribution device 81 can be roughly classified into processing of access itself and processing of outputting data, and these will be described in order.

First, in the data distribution device 81, a processing routine shown in FIG. 6 is executed. When an access request is made to the data distribution device 81 by the mobile phone 90, the result is affirmative in step 120, and after executing the user authentication process in the next step 122, the initial information is output to the mobile phone 90 in the next step 124. Then, this routine ends. Therefore, the processing of steps 120 and 122 is
The process of step 124 corresponds to the reception process of the data D1, and the process of step 124 corresponds to the transmission process of the data D2.

Next, in the data distribution device 81, a processing routine shown in FIG. 7 is executed. By using the mobile phone 90, a data storage position (URL) and a data output position (UR)
When designated as L) and transmitted, the data distribution device 81 receives this, and the result is affirmed in step 130 of FIG. 7 and proceeds to the next step 132. In step 132, the data position is specified and the data is obtained based on the storage position of the received data from the mobile phone 90. In the next step 134, the data output position is specified. As described above, the data distribution device 81 can grasp the data designated by the user and the output position thereof, distribute them in the next step 136, and end this routine. This distribution is performed to the data processing device 83. Therefore, the processing of steps 132 and 134 corresponds to the processing S3, and the processing of step 136 corresponds to the processing S4 and the transmission processing of the data D4.

Next, the processing of the data processing device 83 will be described in detail. First, in the data processing device 83, the processing routine shown in FIG. 8 is executed at regular intervals. When the data transmission is performed from the data distribution device 81, the result is affirmative in step 140, the data is received from the data distribution device 81 in the next step 142, and the process proceeds to step 144.
In step 144, the type of the output device is specified. That is, the output position (URL) of the data designated by the mobile phone 90 is extracted from the data received in step 142, and the type of the output position (URL) is specified. The type of output position (URL) includes the type of printer and the type of specification. In the next step 146, a process desired by the user is determined. Step 146 is a process for determining a condition for requesting data output. That is, conditions such as the output range of the output page, the number of colors to be output, and the resolution are determined.

In the next step 148, the above step 1
The data read at 42 is converted to data according to the conditions determined at step 146. The data processing in step 148 includes management of the number of pages of data to be output, management of the number of output times (number of copies), output contents (the number of monochrome and color colors,
(Information unit price at the time of output). Then, the converted data is transmitted to the data output device 85, and this routine ends. Therefore, the processing of steps 142 to 146 corresponds to the processing S5, and the processing of step 148 is the processing S5.
6 to S8, and the process of step 150 is performed on the data D5
Transmission processing.

Next, the processing of the data output device 85 will be described in detail.

First, in the data output device 85, the processing routine shown in FIG. 9 is executed at regular intervals. When data is transmitted from the data processing device 83, step 160
In the next step 162, an output condition is extracted from the data received from the data processing device 83 to set the condition. This condition setting is performed in step 148 of FIG.
And the number of pages of data to be output, the number of copies (number of copies), and the output contents (the number of monochrome and color colors, the unit price of information at the time of output) which are managed and transmitted thereafter. In the next step 164, data is output under the conditions set in the above step 162, and this routine ends. Accordingly, the determination processing in step 160 corresponds to the reception processing of data D5, and the processing in steps 162 and 164 corresponds to processing S9.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when the user specifies the storage position and output position of the data requested to be output by the portable telephone 90, the specified data is transmitted to the data distribution device 81. You. Data distribution device 8
In 1, the data specified by the mobile phone 90 is received,
The data is transmitted to the data output device 85, and the data is received by the data processing device 83. The data processing device 83 converts the data specified by the mobile phone 90 into a data format that can be output at the output position specified by the mobile phone 90, and transmits the data to the data output device 85.
Output data from Therefore, the specified data can be output at the specified position regardless of the type and specification of the device at the specified position, and the data can be obtained in the data format intended by the user.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, data output issued from a partner whose location is logically and physically indefinite, such as a mobile phone, is preferably performed according to the output form of the output position. Can be processed.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described above.
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment,
It is obvious that those skilled in the art can modify or substitute the embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0081]

As described above, according to the present invention, the portable telephone is provided with the instruction means for instructing the printing of the designated data from the stored information stored in the storage device connected to the communication line. Therefore, there is an effect that a print instruction can be issued only by an instruction from the instruction means without performing complicated processing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a computer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is an image diagram schematically showing a configuration of a network system.

FIG. 2 shows a computer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram for describing a flow of data output in the network system.

FIG. 3 is a schematic functional block diagram of a data processing device.

FIG. 4 illustrates a computer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating transmission and reception of information on a server side and a user (client) side in a network system.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing of the mobile phone.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a second process of the data distribution device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a first process of the data distribution device.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing of the data processing device.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing of the data output device.

FIG. 10 is an image diagram illustrating a display panel when a user designates a data storage position and an output position on a mobile phone.

FIG. 11 is an image diagram showing an example of a form terminal including a button for a user to instruct an output with a mobile phone in a configuration.

FIG. 12 is an image diagram illustrating a display panel when a user searches or indicates a data output position on a mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 80 computer network system 81 data distribution device 83 data processing device 85 data output device 86 connection device 86 communication device 87 site server 88 network 89 gateway system 90 mobile phone 208 user input device 210 wireless transmission / reception device 212 display panel 214 Wireless terminal device number storage section 220 Print instruction button 222 Instruction area 224 Printer search button 226 Print instruction button

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Tetsuro Handa 2-17-22 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Noriyuki Noda 3-7-1 Fuuchi, Iwatsuki City, Saitama Prefecture Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 2C061 AP01 AP03 AP04 AP07 HJ06 HN01 HN15 5B021 AA01 BB01 CC07 EE00 5K067 AA34 BB04 DD11 DD51 EE02 EE35 FF02 FF23 HH23 KK15 5K101 LL12 NN02 NN19

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A mobile phone comprising an instruction unit for instructing printing of data specified from storage information stored in a storage device connected to a communication line. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the instruction unit is a push switch provided on the mobile phone. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit, wherein the instruction unit is configured to select an instruction area for an instruction to print the data displayed on the display unit. mobile phone. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an input unit, wherein the instruction unit instructs printing of data specified by the storage position information input to the input unit. The mobile phone according to claim 1. 5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instruction unit is configured to instruct the printing apparatus specified by the position information of the printing apparatus that prints the data, input to the input unit, to print the data. The mobile phone according to claim 4, 6. A communication device for communicating with a printing device for printing the data, wherein the data is printed on the printing device specified by position information obtained by communication with the printing device by the communication device. The mobile phone according to claim 4, wherein an instruction is given.