Methods for authenticating printing operations from a cloud-based server
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsArthur Alacar, Michael Martin
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Abstract
A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.
Claims9
A method for authenticating user access to a job at a cloud-based server, the method comprising:
- uploading job data for the job from a port monitor at a first device to the cloud-based server;
- receiving a first uniform resource locator (URL) address at the port monitor, wherein the first URL address refers to the uploaded job on the cloud-based server;
- submitting a request for the job using the first URL address from the first device, wherein the request includes job metadata information for the job;
- generating a claim code for the job at the cloud-based server;
- receiving the claim code at the port monitor at the first device;
- launching a browser at the first device;
- generating a second URL address within the browser by embedding the claim code in the second URL address;
- forwarding the claim code to the cloud-based server using the second URL address within the browser;
- authenticating a user session to access the job according to the claim code;
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- forwarding the job to a printing device from the cloud-based server.
A method for authenticating user access to a job at a cloud-based server, the method comprising:
- uploading job data for the job from a port monitor at a first device to the cloud-based server;
- receiving a first uniform resource locator (URL) address at the port monitor, wherein the first URL address refers to the uploaded job on the cloud-based server;
- submitting a request for the job using the first URL address, wherein the request includes job metadata information for the job;
- generating a claim code for the job at the cloud-based server;
- receiving the claim code at the port monitor at the first device;
- launching a browser at a second device;
- generating a second URL address within the browser at the second device;
- forwarding the claim code to the cloud-based server using the second URL address within the browser;
- authenticating a user session to access the job according to the claim code;
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- forwarding the job to a printing device from the cloud-based server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.