Method and apparatus printing e-mail
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorByoung-Yue Kim
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Abstract
An e-mail printing method and its apparatus print an e-mail directly received from an e-mail sender. A printing apparatus is designated as/assigned a domain name, thereby providing a print destination. The print-destination domain name is included in the e-mail by the e-mail sender and the e-mail is transferred to the e-mail printing apparatus as designated by the e-mail sender using the print-destination domain name. Accordingly, a receiving mail server is bypassed, allowing quick/direct printing of the e-mail in real time, and eliminating an e-mail printing failure caused by malfunctioning of the receiving mail server.
Claims22
An e-mail printing method in at least one e-mail printing apparatus printing an e-mail transmitted from an e-mail sender to a recipient, the method comprising:
- receiving directly the e-mail of the recipient from the e-mail sender;
- and
- printing the received e-mail,
- wherein the e-mail of the recipient is directly transferred to the e-mail printing apparatus designated by the e-mail sender from among at least one e-mail printing apparatus.
At least one e-mail printing apparatus printing an e-mail transmitted from an e-mail sender to a recipient, the apparatus comprising:
- a mail receiver directly receiving the e-mail of the recipient from the e-mail sender and outputting the received e-mail;
- and
- a print unit printing the received e-mail input from the mail receiving unit,
- wherein the e-mail of the recipient is directly transferred to the e-mail printing apparatus designated by the e-mail sender.
A real-time e-mail printing method, comprising:
- assigning a print-destination domain name to a printing apparatus;
- transferring an e-mail to the printing apparatus from an e-mail sender based upon the print-destination domain name;
- and
- printing the transferred e-mail.
A system printing an e-mail in real-time, comprising:
- a printing apparatus having a domain name and printing an e-mail;
- an e-mail sender passing through to the printing apparatus an e-mail including the domain name of the printing apparatus as a destination.
An e-mail printer in communication with an e-mail sender, the e-mail printer comprising:
- a programmed computer processor using a domain name to directly receive an e-mail from the e-mail sender using an e-mail transfer protocol and printing the received e-mail, thereby providing a receiving mail server bypass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.