Electronic invoice management and printing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKetankumar Navneetray Vyas, Balasubramanian Gopalakrishnan
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Abstract
Provided is a method of managing electronic invoices. An electronic invoice of a customer is stored in an online database. A mobile phone number of the customer is associated with the electronic invoice and said association is stored in the online database. A unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is generated and associated with the electronic invoice. The URL is sent to a mobile device associated with the mobile phone number of the customer via a messaging service.
Claims15
An method of managing electronic invoices, comprising:
- storing an electronic invoice of a customer in an online database;
- associating a mobile phone number of the customer with the electronic invoice;
- storing said association in the online database;
- generating and associating a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) with the electronic invoice;
- and
- sending the unique URL to a mobile device associated with the mobile phone number of the customer via a messaging service.
A method of printing an electronic invoice, comprising:
- receiving, via a messaging service, a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on a mobile device, wherein the unique URL is associated with an electronic invoice stored in an online database;
- retrieving the electronic invoice from the online database to the mobile device using the unique URL;
- sending the electronic invoice from the mobile device to a cloud-enabled printer;
- and
- printing the electronic invoice using the cloud-enabled printer.
A method of printing an electronic invoice, comprising:
- receiving, via a messaging service, a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on a mobile device, wherein the unique URL is associated with an electronic invoice stored in an online database;
- sending the unique URL via an email from the mobile device to a cloud-enabled printer;
- retrieving the electronic invoice from the online database using the unique URL;
- and
- printing the electronic invoice using the cloud-enabled printer.
A printer, comprising:
- a memory;
- a communication unit for communicating with a mobile device;
- and
- a processor for controlling the memory and the communication interface, wherein
- the processor, upon invoice of a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from the mobile device, retrieves an electronic invoice associated with the unique URL from an online database and prints the electronic invoice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.