Patent ID: 8767243
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A proxy device comprising a processor functioning as: a receiving unit receiving various types of data from both a terminal device and an outputting device, the outputting device outputting an image; a requesting unit, wherein when the receiving unit receives, from the terminal device, reservation data including first terminal-device identification data identifying the terminal device from which the reservation data is transmitted, reservation instruction data that instructs making a reservation to output the image by the outputting device, and first outputting-device identification data for identifying the outputting device, and the receiving unit receives, from the outputting device identified by the first outputting-device identification data, first request data that requests image data, the requesting unit transmits, to the terminal device from which the receiving unit receives the reservation data, second request data requesting one of the image data and acquiring data for acquiring the image data; an acquiring unit that acquires second outputting-device identification data identifying the outputting device corresponding to the terminal device that the first terminal-device identification data identifies from a storing unit storing second terminal-device identification data identifying the terminal device and the second outputting-device identification data such that the second terminal-device identification data is correlated to the second outputting-device identification data; and a sending unit, wherein the first request data includes third outputting-device identification data identifying the outputting device; wherein when the receiving unit receives the first outputting-device identification data that identifies the same outputting device that the second outputting-device identification data identifies, and when the receiving unit receives the third outputting-device identification data that identifies the outputting device that the second outputting-device identification data identifies, the requesting unit transmits the second request data to the terminal device that the first terminal-device identification data identifies, and wherein when the receiving unit receives one of the image data and the acquiring data from the terminal device in response to the second request data, the sending unit sends one of the image data received from the terminal device and image data acquired based on the acquiring data, to the outputting device that the third outputting-device identification data identifies.