Patent ID: 9667816
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A relay connection system, comprising: a server connected to a network; one or more job processing devices connected to the network; and a terminal device connected to the network, wherein the server relays a communication between the terminal device and at least one of the job processing devices, each of the job processing devices comprises a light emitting unit and blinks the light emitting unit in accordance with a different blinking pattern from another job processing device, wherein the terminal device further comprises an image pickup unit; the terminal device recognizes the blinking pattern of the light emitting unit of the job processing device by performing an image pick up of the job processing device with the image pickup unit, and transmits a connection request including the recognized blinking pattern and an address of the terminal device on the network, to the server, the server registers an address of each job processing device on the network and the blinking pattern of each job processing device so as to relate the address of the job processing device to the blinking pattern of the job processing device, in case that the server receives the connection request from the terminal device, the server checks whether a coincident blinking pattern which is coincident with the blinking pattern included in the connection request is registered, and in case that the coincident blinking pattern is registered, the server carries out a connection setting in which the address of the terminal device on the network, which is included in the received connection request is stored so as to relate the address of the terminal device on the network to the address of the job processing device on the network, which is registered so as to be related to the coincident blinking pattern, and relays the communication between the terminal device and the job processing device in which the address of the terminal device and the address of the job processing device are related by the connection setting.