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US 6,201,611 B1Granted
Providing local printing on a thin client
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKeith Edward Carter, Mark J Hamzy, Patrick Nogay, Mark Wayne VanderWiele
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Abstract
A print rendering server system in a network computing environment perform many of the most compute intensive tasks in the overall print process for a plurality of resource limited clients. In response to a print request from the client, a print job in a print ready format is produced and sent back for local printing by the resource limited client system.
Claims8
A method for local printing for a resource limited client system, comprising the steps of:
- at a requesting client system, receiving a print request from a resident application for local printing;
- sending the print request via a network to a print rendering server in a device independent format wherein the print request contains routing information to a printer attached to the network through a client system;
- at the print rendering server, rendering the print request into a device dependent data stream;
- sending the device dependent data stream across the network to the local printer;
- and
- receiving the device dependent data stream for printing at the local printer.
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