Method, system, and driver for virtual fulfillment
OwnerHolden Caine, All Seymen Ertasinventors
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Abstract
A system for virtual fulfillment is also disclosed. The system has one or more distributed fulfillment devices. The system also has one or more fulfillment controllers coupled to the one or more distributed fulfillment devices. The system further has a client and a virtual fulfillment driver installed on the client. The virtual fulfillment driver is configured to: a) render a document; b) bundle the rendered document into an order for later communication to the one or more fulfillment controllers; and c) communicate the order to the one or more fulfillment controllers. A related method, virtual fulfillment driver, and machine executable instructions embodied on a machine readable medium are also disclosed.
Claims39
A virtual fulfillment driver, accessible within an application program, comprising:
- a rendering engine configured to prepare one or more documents for fulfillment by one or more remote fulfillment controllers;
- an order bundler configured to bundle one or more of the prepared documents into an order;
- and
- a communication manager configured to communicate the order to the one or more remote fulfillment controllers.
A system for virtual fulfillment, comprising:
- one or more distributed fulfillment devices;
- one or more fulfillment controllers coupled to the one or more distributed fulfillment devices;
- a client;
- and
- a virtual fulfillment driver installed on the client and configured to:
- a) render a document;
- b) bundle the rendered document into an order for later communication to the one or more fulfillment controllers;
- and
- c) communicate the order to the one or more fulfillment controllers to fulfill the order using the one or more distributed fulfillment devices.
A method of virtual fulfillment, comprising:
- rendering a document;
- bundling the rendered document into an order for later communication to a remote fulfillment controller;
- communicating the order to the remote fulfillment controller;
- and
- fulfilling the communicated order.
A set of machine executable instructions embodied on a machine readable medium for virtual fulfillment, comprising:
- instructions for rendering a document;
- instructions for bundling the rendered document into an order for later communication to a remote fulfillment controller;
- and
- instructions for communicating the order to the remote fulfillment controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.