Patent ID: 9277069
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming system comprising a mobile terminal, a plurality of image forming apparatuses that is image-captured by a photographing part provided in said mobile terminal, and a server, wherein in a server storage part provided in said server, address information about said plurality of image forming apparatuses being stored, when said plurality of image forming apparatuses is image-captured by the photographing part provided in said mobile terminal, an inquiry request for address information about an image-captured image forming apparatus of said plurality being transmitted from said mobile terminal to said server, wherein said inquiry request for address information includes: said address information stored in the server storage part of said server being associated with: to respond to said inquiry request for address information, said server storage part being referenced and the image-captured image forming apparatus being identified, and, from said server, address information about said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted to said mobile terminal, wherein the image-captured image forming apparatus: on the basis of said address information, which is transmitted from said server and is about said identified image forming apparatus, a request for transmitting job information being transmitted from said mobile terminal to said identified image forming apparatus, and to respond to said request for transmitting job information, job information about printing jobs accumulated in said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted from said identified image forming apparatus to said mobile terminal, and the job information transmitted from said identified image forming apparatus being synthesized with image data image-captured by said photographing part and being displayed in a display part of said mobile terminal, wherein, on the basis of disposition relationship among the plurality of image forming apparatuses in the screen layout, said server identifies said image forming apparatus for which the inquiry request was transmitted by identifying an image forming apparatus for which its disposition location in the room layout corresponds to the disposition location, in the screen layout, of the image forming apparatus for which the inquiry request was transmitted.