Mobile device-enabled secure release of print jobs
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsVictor Ciriza, Francois Ragnet, David Salgado
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Abstract
In a printing method, a user at a user terminal (10) having a physically connected mobile device (20) including non-volatile storage constructs an incomplete print job envelope (32) and completing data (34). The completing data (34) are stored on the non-volatile storage of the mobile device (20). The incomplete print job envelope (32) is communicated to a printing device (12). The mobile device (20) is physically disconnected from the user terminal (10), and physically connected with the printing device (12) to reconstruct the print job at the printing device (12) from the incomplete print job envelope (32) and the completing data (34).
Claims22
A printing method comprising:
- at a user terminal having a connected removable USB drive, decomposing a print job into an incomplete print job envelope and completing data;
- storing the completing data on the removable USB drive;
- communicating the incomplete print job envelope to a printing device;
- disconnecting the removable USB drive from the user terminal;
- and
- connecting the removable USB drive with the printing device to reconstruct the print job at the printing device from the incomplete print job envelope and the completing data, the printing device executing the re-constructed print job.
A printing method comprising:
- at a user terminal having a physically connected mobile device including non-volatile storage, constructing an incomplete print job envelope and completing data;
- storing the completing data on the non-volatile storage of the mobile device;
- communicating the incomplete print job envelope to a printing device;
- physically disconnecting the mobile device from the user terminal;
- and
- physically connecting the mobile device with the printing device to reconstruct the print job at the printing device from the incomplete print job envelope and the completing data.
A printing system comprising:
- a printing device including a network connection operatively connected with a digital network and a mobile device connector for removably connecting a mobile device including non-volatile storage;
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- a print job reconstructor that combines an incomplete print job envelope and completing data received via the mobile device connector to form a print job that is executed by the printing device.
A print job generator comprising:
- a user terminal including a network connection operatively connected with a digital network and a mobile device connector;
- a print driver comprising instructions to generate page description language (PDL) data corresponding to a print job;
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- an envelope generator comprising instructions to decompose and encrypt the PDL data into (i) an encrypted incomplete print job envelope sent to a printing device via the network connection and (ii) encrypted completing data stored on a mobile device connected with the mobile device connector, the incomplete print job envelope and completing data being configured to enable decryption of the encrypted incomplete print job envelope, decryption of the encrypted completing data, and reconstruction of the PDL data at the printing device responsive to removal of the mobile device from the mobile device connector and connection of the mobile device with the printing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.