Patent ID: 8416432

Claim:
A method, performed in a print server, of automatically establishing a wireless connection with a printer remote control device in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: backing up wireless network setting values currently in use by the print server in response to the printer remote control device being docked to the print server; initializing the wireless network setting values of the print server to default wireless network setting values, which setting values are similarly predefined for both the print server and the printer remote control device; establishing a first wireless connection between the print server and the printer remote control device based on the wireless network setting values initialized to the default wireless network setting values; transmitting the backed up wireless network setting values to the printer remote control device via the first wireless connection; receiving an acknowledgement message verifying that the backed up wireless network setting values were completely received from the print server; disconnecting the first wireless connection and restoring the wireless network setting values of the print server to the backed up wireless network setting values, in response to said receiving the acknowledgement message; and establishing a second wireless connection between the print server and the printer remote control device based on the restored wireless network setting values, wherein the printer remote control device receives images from at least one of a plurality of computing devices, transmits data to the print server using the second wireless connection for printing a selected image via the print server, and receives information corresponding to printing jobs from the print server via the second wireless connection and the selected image is selected by a user from the received images.