Network publishing authorization protocol
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsPaul Lapstun, Kia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A network publishing authorization protocol, for use in a network connected to a printer, a server and a publisher of network publications. The protocol authorizes the printing of a publication at the printer. It includes the steps of: addressing the publication to a user; signing the publication using a private key; sending the publication to the printer; and confirming that the publication may be printed at the printer, by verifying the private key signature. Confirmation may take place at the printer or at the server.
Claims15
In a network connected to a plurality of printers associated with a plurality of users and to a publisher of network publications, a network publishing authorization protocol for authorizing the printing of a document at the printers, including the steps of:
- the publisher obtaining a document identity and page descriptions for the document to be printed from an identity server;
- the publisher sending the document, including its identity and page descriptions to a page server responsible for that document identity;
- the publisher creating a message that includes the publisher's own identity, alias identities of the plurality of users, a set of multicast channel names, and a private electronic signature of the publisher;
- the publisher addressing the document to the plurality of users;
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- the publisher sending the document to the plurality of printers associated with the plurality of users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.