US 8,477,330 B2 · Printer resource sharing in a media exchange network

Abstract

A system providing printer resource sharing in a communication network includes a first communication device at a first location, communicatively coupled to a printer resource and to a second communication device at a second location. The first communication device may authenticate the second communication device, and subsequent to the authentication, may enable printing of information content on the printer resource, at a request of a user of the second communication device. The first communication device may authenticate the second communication device based on a signal received from the second communication device. The first and second communication devices and the printer resource may be communicatively coupled via a communication network. The communication network may include a broadband access headend, a cable infrastructure, a satellite network infrastructure, a digital subscriber line (DSL) infrastructure, an Internet infrastructure, an intranet or wired infrastructure, closed communication infrastructure, local area network, and/or a wireless infrastructure.

Claims32

Dependent claims

A system configured to facilitate printer resource sharing in a communication network, comprising:

a first communication device at a first location, the first communication device communicatively coupled to a printer resource and to a second communication device at a second location via the communication network,
wherein the first communication device authenticates the second communication device, and subsequent to the authentication of the second communication device, enables printing of information content residing with the first communication device on the printer resource via the communication network, the printer resource selected from a plurality of printing resources and configured to be operationally driven via the second communication device at the second location.

A system providing printer resource sharing in a communication network, comprising:

a second communication device deployed in a second location,
wherein, based upon a selected printer resource of a plurality of printer resources by a user, the second communication device operationally drives printing of information content residing with a first communication device deployed in a first location, wherein printing of the information content is enabled on a selected printer resource via the second communication device, and the second communication device communicates a signal to the first communication device that authenticates the second communication device, prior to the printing of the information content residing with the first communication device on the printer resource via the communication network.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/190,684Filed 26 Jul 2011 · continuation

Priority

11 Dec 2002

Published

US 2012/0019853 A126 Jan 2012

Granted

2 Jul 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/1288
Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server: in client-server-printer device configuration
G06F 3/1203
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
G06F 3/1224
Specifically adapted to use a particular technique: client or server resources management
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application60/432,472Us provisional application · filed 11 Dec 2002

Application60/443,894Us provisional application · filed 30 Jan 2003

Application60/457,179Us provisional application · filed 25 Mar 2003

Application60/461,717Us provisional application · filed 10 Apr 2003

Application60/469,329Us provisional application · filed 9 May 2003

Application10/675,752Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2003

Application11/428,700Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jul 2006

Application12/555,324Parent of this continuation · filed 8 Sep 2009

US 2012/0019853 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Jan 2012

US 7,986,428 B2Parent of this continuation

US 7,586,636 B2Parent of this continuation

US 7,110,135 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2004/0114180 A1Published application

US 2006/0238806 A1Published application

US 2009/0323117 A1Published application

US 8,477,330 B2This patent

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Printer resource sharing in a media exchange network

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Abstract

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