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US 10,896,013 B2Granted
Printing device pool
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorAlin Vana
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to identifying a pool of printing devices, wherein each of the printing devices is associated with one of a plurality of owner entities, receiving a print job from a user, selecting a printing device from the pool of printing devices for the print job, causing the print job to be printed by the selected printing device, and crediting an account of the owner entity associated with the selected printing device.
Claims19
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for a printing pool device comprising instructions to:
- identify by the printing pool device a pool of printing devices, wherein each of the printing devices is associated with one of a plurality of owner entities and where at least two of the owner entities are different from each other and from a user of the printing pool device;
- receive a print job from the user;
- select a printing device from the pool of printing devices for the print job;
- cause the print job to be printed by the selected printing device;
- and
- credit an account of the owner entity associated with the selected printing device.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, at a matching service, a print job from a user;
- calculating, at the matching service, a cost to print the print job at a printing device owned by a printer owner and not affiliated with the user, wherein the cost is determined at least in part by a rating of the user that is received at the matching service from the printer owner;
- determining, at the matching service, whether the cost to print the print job has been approved by the user;
- and
- in response to determining that the cost to print the print job has been approved by the user:
- printing the print job at the printing device, and
- receiving an account credit for the cost to print the print job.
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A system, comprising:
- a printer location engine to:
- identify a plurality of available printers for a print job, and
- route the print job to a selected printer of the plurality of available printers;
- a printing account engine to:
- debit a user account of a user associated with the print job, and
- credit an owner account of an owner associated with the selected printer;
- and
- a rating engine to:
- receive, from the owner associated with the selected printer, a rating for the user associated with the print job, and
- receive, from the user associated with the print job, a rating associated with the owner associated with the selected printer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.