Remote proofing service adaptively isolated from the internet
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsManuel Gonzalez, Andrew Mackenzie
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Abstract
Automatic testing determines whether a proofing-file generator and receiver are in a common intranet. If so then the proofing file is automatically sent by a route that is substantially wholly within the intranet, and ideally peer-to-peer. If the generator and receiver are not in a common intranet, then preferably the file is sent by a conventional route through the Internet, preferably via a master server of the proofing service. The test preferably includes dynamically establishing IP addresses for the generator and receiver, and comparing the established IP addresses; however, consultation of a pretabulated listing is also possible.
Claims41
A proofing method comprising:
- automatically testing whether a proofing-file generator and receiver are in a common intranet;
- and
- if so, automatically sending a proofing file substantially wholly within the intranet.
Proofing software comprising:
- a routine for testing whether a proofing-file generator and receiver are in a common intranet;
- and
- a routine, responsive to positive results of the testing, for transmitting a proofing file substantially wholly through the intranet.
A device for use in remote proofing, and comprising:
- a software routine forming data used in testing whether a proofing-file generator and receiver are in a common intranet;
- and
- a stored telecommunications software routine, responsive to positive results of said testing, for transmitting or receiving a proofing file substantially wholly through the intranet.
A system for remote proofing, using a proofing file transmitted from a generator to a receiver of the file;
- said system comprising:
- processor components operating a program to automatically determine whether such generator and such receiver are both within a common intranet;
- processor components operating a program to transmit such proofing file to such receiver;
- comprising:
- processor components operating a program to automatically route the transmission substantially wholly within the intranet, if such generator and receiver are both within a common intranet, and
- processor components operating a program to otherwise route the transmission instead at least partially outside any intranet;
- and
- at least one proofing device reading the proofing file and creating a corresponding visible proof.
A receiver station for interacting with a remote proofing-file generator;
- said station comprising:
- a proofing device using such proofing file to create a corresponding closed-loop color remote proof;
- means for providing information used in automatically determining whether such generator and the receiver station are both within a common intranet;
- and
- means for automatically receiving such proofing file from such generator, routed:
- substantially wholly within the intranet, if the generator and receiver are both within a common intranet, or
- otherwise instead at least partially outside any intranet.
A proofing-file generator station for interacting with a remote proofing-file receiver;
- said station comprising:
- means for providing information used in automatically determining whether the generator station and the receiver are both within a common intranet;
- and
- means for automatically transmitting such proofing file to the receiver, routed:
- substantially wholly within the intranet, if the generator and receiver are both within a common intranet, and
- otherwise instead at least partially outside any intranet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.