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US 2016/0077776 A1Published application
Printing composite documents
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHELEN BALINSKY, ANDREW M. SPENCER, NASSIR MOHAMMAD
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Abstract
A printer includes an access module to control access among different participants, one participant at a time, to at least some encrypted parts of a composite document print job located at the printer.
Claims15
A multifunction printer comprising:
- an access module to control access among different participants, one participant at a time, to at least some encrypted parts of a composite document print job located at the multifunction printer, the access module including:
- an authorization function to receive, generally contemporaneous with a physical presence of a respective participant at the printer, access to a private key associated with the respective participant:
- a decryption function to attempt decryption, via the private key in a decrypted form in coordination with an encrypted differential access mechanism embedded within the composite document, of at least one encrypted part associated with the respective participant,
- wherein, upon successful decryption, the access module releases the decrypted part in the presence of the respective participant;
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- a print mechanism to print the decrypted part.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, when executed on a processor of a multifunction printer, to implement:
- an access module to control access among different participants, one participant at a time, to at least some encrypted parts of a composite document print job located at the multifunction printer, the access module including:
- an authorization function to receive, generally contemporaneous with a physical presence of a respective participant at the printer, a private key associated with the respective participant;
- a decryption function to attempt decryption, via the private key in coordination with an encrypted differential access mechanism embedded within the composite document, of at least one encrypted part associated with the respective participant,
- wherein, upon successful decryption, the access module releases the decrypted part for printing while the participant is located at the printer;
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- a print module to print the decrypted part.
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A control module of a multifunction printer comprising:
- an access module to control access among different participants, one participant at a time, to at least some encrypted parts of a composite document print job located at the multifunction printer, the access module including:
- an authorization function to receive, generally contemporaneous with a physical presence of a respective participant at the printer, a private key associated with the respective participant;
- a decryption function to attempt decryption, via the private key in a decrypted form in coordination with an encrypted differential access mechanism embedded within the composite document, of respective encrypted parts associated with the respective one participant,
- wherein, upon successful decryption, the access module releases the decrypted portion for printing while the participant is located at the printer;
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- a user interface to enable user interaction with at least one of the authorization function and to select parts of the composite document for printing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.