US 7,084,994 B1Granted

Home printing from internet sources

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsGeorge Koppich, Michael Lee Yeung, Don Francis Purpura, Paul Nicholas Gacek, Tapani Otala, Douglas Richard Barr

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Abstract

Internet-based printing to a home printer in which the print job is pre-rasterized at the cable head end and sent in rasterized format to the set top box. Because the print job is pre-rasterized at the cable head end, and not at the set top box, resources are not wasted at the set top box when they are more readily available at the cable head end. In addition, because of the high speed communication network already in existence between the cable head end and the set top box, even large pre-rasterized print jobs can be transmitted to the set top box in reasonable amounts of time, meaning more quickly than a situation in which it was the set top box that performed rasterization.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A method for providing for printout of an internet-based print job at a printer connected to an information processing device, a server connected to a plurality of information processing devices executes the steps of:

receiving from an internet-based source a push-print print job to be printed at a printer connected to an information processing device via a network, wherein the print job includes data associated with, and specific to, a user of the information processing device;
determining whether to accept the print job received from the internet-based source based on profile information associated with the user, and performing the following steps based on the determination:
obtaining a print driver for the printer connected to the information processing device;
rendering the print job using the print driver;
and
transferring the rendered print job over the network to the information processing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.