Document delivery system for automatically printing a document on a printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDana E. Laursen, Aloke Gupta
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Abstract
For documents to be delivered via an automatic delivery system, a client-server solution ensures that a requested document is delivered and printed for instances when the requested document cannot be published at the time of normal scheduled delivery or print schedule. This aspect is particularly useful when the server is experiencing peak loads or if some document components are not available at the time of the normal scheduled delivery.
Claims41
In a document delivery system having a document capable of being operatively coupled to a printing device, a method of printing the document on the printing device comprising the steps of:
- causing a print schedule to be stored;
- accepting an automatic request, without user intervention, for the document based on the print schedule;
- transmitting the document to the printing device;
- determining whether the document has been received by the printing device, without user intervention;
- assigning a transient delivery time if the document has not been received by the printing device according to the print schedule, without user intervention and without effecting the print schedule;
- and
- causing automatic printing, without user intervention, the document on the printing device.
A document delivery system for delivering documents from a server comprising:
- a first device which is programmed to automatically request, without user intervention, a document based on a print schedule;
- a document server that transmits the document to a printer;
- wherein the device determines whether the document has been received by the printer;
- wherein either the device or the document server assigns a transient delivery time if the document has not been received by the printer according to the print schedule, without user intervention and without effecting the print schedule;
- and
- wherein the printer automatically prints, without user intervention, the document.
A server system for delivering a document to printer comprising:
- means for receiving and processing a request for delivery of a document from a computer device based on a print schedule, means for determining whether a delay in the document delivery is needed, and if a delay is needed, means for assigning a transient delivery time without effecting the print schedule, and means for delivering the document to a printer when the means for determining whether a delay in the document delivery is needed determines that no delay is needed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.