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US 2004/0167974 A1Published application
Exposing mobile-enterprise printers using a universal plug and play proxy
OwnerJeremy Bunn, Jeff M. Anderson +1inventors
InventorsJeremy Bunn, Jeff M. Anderson, David M. Hall
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Abstract
A method for exposing mobile-enterprise printers on a network includes receiving a remotely generated request to identify at least one network-coupled mobile enterprise print service, using a UPnP print-service proxy to identify a mobile-enterprise print service communicatively coupled on the network, and using the mobile-enterprise print service to identify at least one printer device communicatively coupled to the network.
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A method for exposing mobile-enterprise printers on a network, comprising:
- receiving a remotely generated request to identify at least one network-coupled mobile enterprise print service;
- using a UPnP print-service proxy to identify a mobile-enterprise print service communicatively coupled on the network;
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- using the mobile-enterprise print service to identify at least one printer device communicatively coupled to the network.
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A system for mobile printing, comprising:
- means for receiving a remotely generated request from a mobile-communication device to identify at least one proximate-printer device;
- means for responding to the remotely generated request, wherein a response includes information identifying at least one network-coupled proximate-printer device;
- means for responding to a remotely generated print command, wherein the print command includes information identifying content;
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- means for generating printer-ready data responsive to the content and the at least one network-coupled proximate-printer device, wherein the printer-ready data is generated within a network-coupled device.
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A system, comprising:
- an interface configured to receive a remotely generated request from a mobile-communication device to identify at least one proximate-printer device available on a network;
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- a mobile-enterprise print service comprising a universal plug and play proxy associated with the at least one proximate-printer device, wherein the universal plug and play proxy exposes the at least one proximate-printer device to devices coupled to the network, the mobile-enterprise print service including logic configured to respond to the remotely generated request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.