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US 7,073,119 B2Granted
System for retrieving and printing network documents
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDon Hideyasu Matsubayashi, Hideo Mizoguchi
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Abstract
A method for providing print-by-reference functionality includes providing a web page from a printer's embedded web server to a web browser, receiving a URL entered into the provided web page, retrieving a printable document corresponding to the URL, and printing the retrieved document.
Claims4
A control method for controlling a printer, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a web name from a printer to a web browser, wherein the web page prompts a user to enter identification information corresponding to a document to be printed;
- receiving to identification information entered into the provided web page;
- receiving, from an external apparatus, the document to be printed corresponding to the received identification information;
- and
- automatically printing the received document,
- wherein the identification information corresponds to a web site having a transfer protocol not supported by the web browser, and wherein the method further comprises the steps of:
- creating a web page based on contents of the web site, the web page including a link to a directory, a link to a document, or links to a directory and a document,
- wherein, if a link to a directory is selected, a new web page is created including a link to a subdirectory, a link to a document, or links to a subdirectory and to a document.
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A control method for controlling a printer, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a web page from a printer to a web browser, wherein the web page prompts a user to enter identification information corresponding to a document to be printed;
- receiving the identification information entered into the provided web page;
- receiving, from an external apparatus, the document to be printed corresponding to the received identification information;
- automatically printing the received document;
- creating a web page based on contents of the web site, the web page including hypertext links;
- selecting a link;
- issuing a directory access command corresponding to the selected link;
- receiving, if the command fails, a document corresponding to the selected link;
- and
- creating, if the command succeeds, a new web page having hypertext links.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.