US 5,450,571 AGranted

Dialog filtering process for a printing system to filter out non-selectable print programming selections

AssigneeXerox Corporation

InventorsSteven V. Rosekrans, Thomas M. Bellucco, Sharon A. Catapano, Joseph A. DiProspero, Samuel A. Fedele, Lawrence P. Frumusa, David C. Fuller, Elliot J. Sobel, Suzanne M. Zingo

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Abstract

A network printing system have plural printers for making prints, with some of the printers having different job processing capabilities; plural client inputs providing electronic documents and printing instructions that comprise each print job; and dialog filtering to enable the program selections on a universal job ticket to be edited in accordance with the processing capabilities of each individual printer.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A network printing system, including a first printer and a second printer, for generating a user interface dialog to be used in printing a network print job, the user interface dialog indicating, to a client user, a set of printing options available at a selected one of the first printer and the second printer, comprising:

an interclient job ticket indicating, collectively, the printing options available at each of the first printer and the second printer;
a workstation being associated with said client user and having a display device;
a print server, being disposed remotely of said workstation and communicating with each of said workstation, said first printer and said second printer, said print server including,
a first print queue and a second print queue communicating with said first printer and said second printer, respectively, and
a storage area including a first set of filtering information and a second set of filtering information, said first set of filtering information varying as a function of a first set of printing options with said first set of printing options being mapped to said first print queue, and said second set of filtering information varying as a function of a second set of printing options, with said second set of printing options being mapped to the second print queue;
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a system for automatically modifying said interclient job ticket to provide one of a first modified user interface dialog and a second modified user interface for display on said display device, said automatically modifying system including a filtering subsystem for applying said first set of filtering information to said interclient job ticket for creating said first modified user interface dialog when said first print queue is selected with said workstation, and for applying said second set of filtering information to said interclient job ticket for creating said second modified user interface dialog when said second print queue is selected with said workstation.

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In a network printing system with a print server including a first print queue and a second print queue, the first print queue communicating with a first printer, and a second print queue communicating with a second printer, a method for generating a user interface dialog to be used in printing a network print job, the user interface dialog indicating, to a client user, a set of printing options available at a selected one of the first printer and the second printer, comprising the steps of:

providing an interclient job ticket indicating, collectively, a first set of printing options and a second set of printing options respectively available at the first printer and the second printer;
storing a first set of filtering information, varying as a function of the first set of printing options and a second set of filtering information, varying as a function of the second set of printing options;
mapping the first set of filtering information with the first print queue and the second set of filtering information with the second print queue;
selecting one of the first print queue and the second print queue with a workstation communicating with both the first print queue and the second print queue;
and
modifying the interclient job ticket with the first set of filtering information, when the first print queue is selected, to provide a first modified user interface dialog with a first set of printer options, and with the second set of filtering information, when the second print queue is selected, to provide a second modified user interface dialog with a second set of printer options, the first and second modified user interface dialogs being displayed selectively at the display device so that the client user chooses a selected one of the first printer options and the second printer options to develop the network print job.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/293,521Filed 19 Aug 1994 · continuation
Priority: 29 Aug 1991
Granted: 12 Sep 1995
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 3/1255
Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client: settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device…
G06F 3/1205
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…
G06F 3/1285
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure: remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
G06F 40/12
Text processing: use of codes for handling textual entities