US 2012/0057193 A1 · ANONYMOUS PRINTER REGISTRATION IN A CLOUD-BASED PRINT SERVICE

Abstract

A print server may include an anonymous printer registration module configured to receive, at a cloud print service, a registration request from a printer over a network and return a registration response to the printer over the network. The anonymous printer registration module may include a claim code provider configured to provide a claim code included within the registration response to the printer over the network, wherein the printer is configured to provide the claim code to a user of the printer, and a printer matcher configured to receive the claim code from the user over the network and match a user account of the user within the cloud print service with the printer, in response to the receipt of the claim code from the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A print server including instructions stored on a computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor, the print server comprising:

an anonymous printer registration module configured to receive, at a cloud print service, a registration request from a printer over a network and return a registration response to the printer over the network, the anonymous printer registration module including
a claim code provider configured to provide a claim code included within the registration response to the printer over the network, wherein the printer is configured to provide the claim code to a user of the printer;
and
a printer matcher configured to receive the claim code from the user over the network and match a user account of the user within the cloud print service with the printer, in response to the receipt of the claim code from the user.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/041,036Filed 4 Mar 2011

Priority

16 Mar 2010

Published

8 Mar 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1206
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
G06F 3/1209
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in adapted or bridged legacy communication protocols, e.g. emulation,…
G06F 3/1228
Client or server resources management: printing driverless or using generic drivers

Anonymous printer registration in a cloud-based print service

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Anonymous printer registration in a cloud-based print service

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Abstract

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