Process enablement in network downtime condition
View Patent ↗It is a first aspect of the present disclosure to provide a computer implemented method of enabling, by a mobile device, a peripheral device connected to a network that includes establishing a connection with the peripheral device when the peripheral device fails to communicate with the network; querying the peripheral device for a document; receiving a document from the peripheral device; processing the document; and sending the processed document to the peripheral device.
1. A method of enabling, by a mobile device, an imaging device connected to a network, comprising:
determining if the imaging device is able to communicate with the network;
if the imaging device is unable to communicate with the network, establishing a connection between the mobile device and the imaging device;
while the imaging device is unable to communicate with the network:
querying the imaging device for a document;
receiving the document from the imaging device;
processing the document in the mobile device to produce a processed document; and
sending the processed document to the imaging device.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing of the document includes automatically filling the document with information.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information is retrieved from scanning a barcode.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sending the processed document to the imaging device includes adding the processed document to a queue of one or more documents.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection established with the imaging device is an ad-hoc network connection.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection between the mobile device and the imaging device is established when the mobile device is within close proximity to the imaging device.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection between the mobile device and the imaging device is established using a wireless radio interface.
8. A mobile device with a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable instructions to:
establish a connection with an imaging device while the imaging device is determined to be disconnected from a network;
query the imaging device for a document;
receive the document from the imaging device;
process the document to produce a processed document; and
send the processed document to the imaging device,
wherein the one or more instructions to query, receive, process and send is performed while the imaging device is disconnected from a network.
9. The mobile device of claim 8 , wherein the connection established with the imaging device is an ad-hoc network connection.
10. The mobile device of claim 9 , wherein the one or more instructions to establish the ad-hoc network connection includes one or more instructions to connect the mobile device to the imaging device using a wireless radio in the mobile device.
11. The mobile device of claim 9 , wherein the one or more instructions to establish the ad-hoc network connection includes one or more instructions to connect the mobile device to the imaging device using one or more proximity-based protocols.
12. The mobile device of claim 8 , wherein the one or more instructions to process includes one or more instructions to scan a barcode to retrieve information.
13. The mobile device of claim 12 , wherein the retrieved information is used to produce the processed document.
14. A method of a mobile device enabling form processing of a printing device connected to a network, comprising:
receiving, at a mobile device, a connection request from the printing device when the printing device is unable to communicate with the network;
establishing a connection between the mobile device and the printing device;
while the printing device is unable to communicate with the network:
receiving a form from the printing device;
generating a processed form by processing the form at the mobile device; and
sending the processed form to the printing device.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the processing the form includes populating one or more fields of the form with information.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the information used to populate the one or more fields of the form is a scanned barcode information.
17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the mobile device sends a request for the form prior to the receiving the form from the printing device.
18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the connection request is an ad-hoc connection request.
19. The method of claim 14 , wherein the establishing the connection includes connecting the mobile device with the printing device using a wireless radio.
20. The method of claim 14 , wherein the establishing the connection includes connecting with the printing device using a proximity-based protocol.