Document management
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJoseph Rekiere
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Abstract
A document management method is disclosed. The method includes generating and merging a unique watermark for and with each page of a print job to be produced. For each watermark, data identifying the watermark is associated with data identifying a document page corresponding to the print job page with which that watermark is merged.
Claims30
A document management method comprising:
- for each page of a print job to be produced, generating and merging a watermark with that page, wherein the watermark merged with each given page of the print job is unique with respect to all other watermarks merged with all other pages of the print job;
- and
- for each watermark merged with a page of the print job, associating, in a database, data identifying that watermark with data identifying the particular page of the print job with which that watermark is merged,
- wherein the data identifying the watermark maintained within the database does not include data encoded within the watermark itself.
A document management method, comprising:
- maintaining, for a document, a database containing, for each document page of the document, data identifying that document page associated with data identifying a watermark included on that document page, the watermark being unique with respect to all other watermarks included on all other document pages of the document;
- recognizing the watermark included on a selected document page of the document;
- performing an operation on the selected document page;
- and
- associating, in the database, status data with the data identifying the watermark included on the selected document page, the status data identifying the operation that has been performed on the selected document page,
- wherein the data identifying the watermark maintained within the database does not include data encoded within the watermark itself.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for each page of a print job to be produced, generating and merging a watermark with that page, wherein the watermark merged with each given page of the print job is unique with respect to all other watermarks merged with all other pages of the print job;
- and for each watermark merged with a page of the print job, associating, in a database, data identifying that watermark with data identifying the particular page of the print job with which that watermark is merged, wherein the data identifying the watermark maintained within the database does not include data encoded within the watermark itself.
A document management system, comprising:
- a watermark generator operable, for each page of a print job to be produced, to generate and merge a unique watermark with that page, wherein the watermark merged with each given page of the print job is unique with respect to all other watermarks merged with all other pages of the print job;
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- a data manager operable, for each watermark merged with a page of the print job, to associate, in a database, data identifying that watermark with data identifying the particular page of the print job with which that watermark is merged,
- wherein the data identifying the watermark maintained within the database does not include data encoded within the watermark itself.
A document management system, comprising:
- means for generating and merging, for each page of a print job to be produced, a watermark with that page, wherein the watermark merged with each given page of the print job is unique with respect to all other watermarks merged with all other pages of the print job;
- and means for associating in a database, for each watermark merged with a page of the print job, data identifying that watermark with data identifying the particular page of the print job with which that watermark is merged,
- wherein the data identifying the watermark maintained within the database does not include data encoded within the watermark itself.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.