Printer Patents

Patent Types

Technical Fields

Printer PatentsFlexiworld is an early pioneer of wireless printer technologies and has created many of the necessary features that are used in the wireless printing we know today. Examples include Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth connectivity added to the smart phone for cloud communication applications, wireless communicating with a variety of wireless peripheral devices such as wireless printers, tablets, and smart televisions. Flexiworld is the inventor of the many core wireless printer technologies that are widely used today. A list of patents shown below illustrate examples of Flexiworld's wireless printer patents.

1. US Patents

Ref. No.US Patent #
(Issue date)		Title
C13US 10,873,856
Mar 29, 2022		Printing devices supporting printing over air or printing over a wireless network
W9US 11,204,729
Dec 21, 2021		Internet based digital content services for pervasively providing protected digital content to smart devices based on having subscribed to the digital content service
V6US 10,860,290
Aug 17, 2021		Mobile information apparatuses that include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen interface, support for voice activated commands, and a wireless communication chip or chipset supporting IEEE 802.11
C18US 11,096,056
Aug 17, 2021		Output devices, such as televisions, output controllers, or audio output devices, that are setup to wirelessly receive digital content from a digital content service over the internet or from a wireless information apparatus that is in the same network as the output devices
C8US 10,846,031
Nov 24, 2020		Software application for a mobile device to wirelessly manage or wirelessly setup an output system or output device for service
C17US 10,841,798
Nov 17, 2020		Information apparatus or client software that wirelessly discovers, within short range, one or more output devices for establishing a wireless connection
C16US 10,768,871
Sep 08, 2020		Wireless output devices or wireless controllers for establishing wireless connectivity and for receiving digital content
C15US 10,761,791
Sep 01, 2020		Wireless printing devices that provide printing services over a network without a need for a client device of the printing device to use, at the client device, a printer specific printer driver
B1US 10,642,576
Mar 05, 2020		Mobile information apparatus that includes wireless communication circuitry for discovery of an output device for outputting digital content at the wirelessly discovered output device
C12US 10,481,847
Nov 19, 2019		Information apparatus and software applications supporting output of digital content over a network to a registered output device
C11US 10,481,846
Nov 19, 2019		Software applications and information apparatus for printing over air or for printing over a network
B2US 10,740,066
Dec 25, 2018		Output devices that establish wireless connection with an information apparatus subsequent to having been wirelessly discovered by the information apparatus
C2US 10,140,071
Nov 27, 2018		Printers, printer controllers, printer software, or printer firmware for supporting wireless printing or printing over air
C10US 10,140,073
Nov 27, 2018		Wireless devices that establish a wireless connection with a mobile information apparatus by wirelessly detecting, within physical proximity, the mobile information apparatus
C4US 10,133,527
Nov 20, 2018		Wireless Devices That Establish A Wireless Local Area Network Connection By Receiving, Via Direct Wireless Communications, Identification Or Authentication Information, From A Mobile Wireless Device
C3US 10,037,178
Jul 31, 2018		Wireless output devices or wireless controllers that support wireless device discovery for establishing wireless connectivity
T0US 9,971,555
May 15, 2018		Internet based digital content services that provide content upload, content storage, content sharing, content playlist selection, content editing, or content download; and smart phones, information pads, smart televisions and printers with access to the internet based digital content services
W0US 9,965,233
May 08, 2018		Digital content services or stores over the internet that transmit or stream protected or encrypted digital content to connected devices and applications that access the digital content services or stores
V3US 9,798,516
Oct 24, 2017		Smart phones that support wireless printing of emails over air to a wireless printer in a wireless local area network
D5US 9,036,181
May 19, 2015		Wireless printing device for printing digital content received via wireless communication compatible, at least partly, with IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth
D2US 8,630,000
Jan 14, 2014		Essential components for enabling a pervasive wireless digital ecosystem and wireless devices that support the wireless digital ecosystem
DD1US 8,285,802
Oct 09, 2012		Internet-phone or smart phone with applications for managing and playing digital content, and a mobile device operating system supporting application programming interface
D10US 8,169,649
May 01, 2012		Mobile device methods for enabling pervasive wireless digital media
D8US 7,609,402
Oct 27, 2009		Methods for universal data output

2. Pending Patents

Ref. No.Application #
Serial #
(Issue date)		Title
V5US20170364326
15/692977
Aug 31, 2017		User interface and application software in a mobile device that support wireless printing over a network

3. Chinese Patents

Ref. No.HK & Chinese Patent #
(Issue date)		Title
CD2 (HK)CN101834892B
1148620
Nov 03, 2015		用于无线数字媒体生态系统和安全无线访问的方法
CD2ZL201010144174.7
1148620
Nov 03, 2015		用于无线数字媒体生态系统和安全无线访问的方法
CD2Macau Extension of
ZL201010144174.7
J/001773
Nov 03, 2015		用于无线数字媒体生态系统和安全无线访问的方法
CD3CN101833430B
Oct 09, 2014		用于对通过无线通信接收的数字内容进行渲染的输出设备
CD1 (HK)CN101825996B
Sep 05, 2012		从移动信息装置无线输出数字内容
CD1ZL201010144809.3
Sep 05, 2012		从移动信息装置无线输出数字内容
CD0 (HK)CN1541370B
May 05, 2010		通用数据输出系统
CD0ZL02806907.2
May 05, 2010		通用数据输出系统
D2D (HK)CN100,334,577
Aug 29, 2007		用于设备到设备的普适数字输出的控制器及管理器
D2DZL 01821101.1
Aug 29, 2007		用于设备到设备的普适数字输出的控制器及管理器

4. European Patents

Ref. No.European Patent #
Application No
(Issue date)		Title
EP (UK)UK part of EP1340131
01985549.3
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output
EP (DE)German part of EP1340131
01985549.3
DE 60151202.2
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output
EP (FR)FR part of EP1340131
01985549.3
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output
EP (IT)IT part of EP1340131
01985549.3
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output
EP (ES)Spain part of EP1340131
01985549.3
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output
EP (NL)Netherland part of EP1340131
01985549.3
Nov 01, 2001		System and method for device-to-device pervasive digital output