Patent ID: 8902453
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system, the system comprising: an image forming apparatus to store at least one job profile corresponding to a function of the image forming apparatus, to control the image forming apparatus; and a client device to request a job profile corresponding to a received job command, the client device comprising: a driver unit to receive a job command relating to the function of the image forming apparatus; an application program unit to request a job profile corresponding to the job command, to receive the job profile from the image forming apparatus, and to execute an application program for generating a user interface (UI) that provides at least one job option of the received job profile; and a communication interface connected through a connection interface to a communication interface of the image forming apparatus to perform bidirectional communication, to receive the job profile from the communication interface of the image forming apparatus, and to transmit job option information provided from the driver unit to the communication interface of the image forming apparatus, wherein, the driver unit controls the image forming apparatus to perform a job by applying at least one of the job options of the received job profile, and the job command is transmitted from the communication interface to the communication interface of the image forming apparatus to perform the job, the UI includes an image forming apparatus selection unit to select an image forming apparatus from among selectable image forming apparatuses and a profile generation unit to generate a new job profile to be stored in the selected image forming apparatus, and in response to a selection of the profile generation unit, the application program unit provides a user authentication UI to receive an input of user authentication information before job option information is input for the new job profile.