Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that supports a near field communication (NFC) function includes an NFC tag for storing installation information of an application; a wireless communication module for receiving a profile including wireless configuration data from a mobile device, wherein the wireless configuration data is input by a user in execution of the application that is installed in the mobile device by using the installation information; and a control unit for forming wireless configuration based on the profile.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes an NFC tag to which information about at least one near-field communication (NFC) service, from among NFC services that are provided based on NFC, is written; a user interface to receive an input of log-in information from a user; a control unit to determine an NFC service that is allowed for the user in response to log in of the user; and an NFC module to update information that is written to the NFC tag according to a result of the determining.
Abstract:
An application program may be executed through an Internet protocol (IP) address linkage in an image forming apparatus supporting a peer-to-peer connection. The application program may be executed by performing a method which includes connecting the image forming apparatus to a wireless device through a wireless local area network, driving a soft access point (AP) module of the image forming apparatus so that the image forming apparatus functions as an AP, driving a dynamic host configuration protocol server of the image forming apparatus to allocate a dynamic IP address to the connected wireless device, and linking the dynamic IP address allocated to the wireless device with a static IP address that is preset with respect to the wireless device.