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US 11,635,926 B2Granted
Printer identifying characteristics
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsYaze Wang, Derek M Nelson
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing an identifying characteristic of a printer, displaying a plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, receiving a selection of at least one document of the plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, and causing the selected at least one document to be delivered to the printer according to the identifying characteristic.
Claims13
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a printer to:
- generate and provide a machine-readable code comprising an identifying characteristic of the printer;
- retrieve and display on a control panel of the printer a plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, each document comprising the identifying characteristic of the printer and a user authentication of the user;
- receive via the control panel user selection of at least one document of the plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer;
- determine whether the user of each of the at least one document that has been selected is authorized to print to the printer, based on the user authentication;
- and
- in response to determining that the user of each of the at least one document that has been selected is authorized to print to the printer, print the at least one document that has been selected.
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A method comprising:
- generating, by a printer, a machine-readable code comprising a printer identifying characteristic;
- receiving, by the printer, at least one document via a network, wherein the document comprises metadata comprising the printer identifying characteristic and a user authentication;
- determining, by the printer, whether the printer identifying characteristic and the user authentication are valid;
- and
- in response to determining that the printer identifying characteristic and the user authentication are valid, printing the document by the printer that received the document comprising the metadata comprising the printer identifying characteristic and the user authentication.
2 more elements
A printer comprising:
- a control panel;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- provide an identifying characteristic of the printer, wherein the identifying characteristic comprises a displayed machine-readable code according to which a plurality of capabilities of the printer are identifiable;
- retrieve and display on the control panel a plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer according to the plurality of capabilities of the printer, each document comprising the identifying characteristic of the printer and a user authentication of a user;
- receive, via the control panel, user selection of at least one of the plurality of documents for printing on the printer;
- determine whether the user of each of the at least one of the plurality of documents that has been selected is authorized to print to the printer, based on the user authorization;
- and
- in response to determining that the user of each of the at least one of the plurality of documents that has been selected is authorized to print to the printer, print the at least one of the plurality of documents that has been selected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.