Title:
TERMINAL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2014146202
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select a printer favorable to a user when a plurality of printers are available.SOLUTION: A terminal device includes: a position acquisition part for acquiring terminal position information indicating a position of the terminal device; an acquisition part for acquiring plural pieces of distance information respectively corresponding to a plurality of printers being candidates for a printer with which printing is to be executed, each of the plural pieces of distance information generated according to coordinate information including latitude and longitude indicating a position of a corresponding printer and the terminal position information; an extraction part for preferentially extracting a printer having a shorter distance from the terminal device from the plurality of printers according to printer information; and a print instruction part for transmitting a print instruction for executing printing to one or more specific printers from extracted printers.
Inventors:
TSUJIMOTO SHOHEI
Application Number:
JP2013014867A
Publication Date:
August 14, 2014
Filing Date:
January 29, 2013
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BROTHER IND LTD
International Classes:
G06F3/12; B41J29/00; B41J29/38; H04N1/00; H04W4/80
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2011232819A | 2011-11-17 | |||
| JP2006209536A | 2006-08-10 | |||
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Foreign References:
| WO2008117785A1 | 2008-10-02 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Patent business corporation 鳳国際 patent firm
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