Systems and methods for printing a document from a mobile communication device
AssigneeOpen Invention Network, LLC
InventorMargarita Khafizova
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Abstract
The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a non-transitory computer readable medium and a method for printing a document from a mobile communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a print job sent from the mobile communication device and determining a location of the mobile communication device. The method also includes identifying a printer proximate the mobile communication device and initiating execution of the print job at the identified printer.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving a print job sent from a mobile communication device;
- determining whether the mobile communication device is within a print activation distance of an identified printer, wherein the print activation distance is a maximum distance between the identified printer and the mobile communication device;
- when the mobile communication device is not within the print activation distance, waiting to execute the print job based on an expected pickup time;
- when the expected pickup time arrives:
- locating the mobile communication device;
- identifying the printer proximate the mobile communication device;
- and
- initiating execution of the print job on the identified printer when the mobile communication device is within the print activation distance of the identified printer;
- and
- when the mobile communication device is within the print activation distance, initiating execution of the print job at the identified printer, wherein the printer proximate the mobile communication device is a closest distance printer to the mobile communication device.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform:
- receiving a print job sent from a mobile communication device;
- determining whether the mobile communication device is within a print activation distance of an identified printer, wherein the print activation distance is a maximum distance between the identified printer and the mobile communication device;
- when the mobile communication device is not within the print activation distance, waiting to execute the print job based on an expected pickup time;
- when the expected pickup time arrives:
- locating the mobile communication device;
- identifying the printer proximate the mobile communication device;
- and
- initiating execution of the print job on the identified printer when the mobile communication device is within the print activation distance of the identified printer;
- and
- when the mobile communication device is within the print activation distance, initiating execution of the print job at the identified printer, wherein the printer proximate the mobile communication device is a closest distance printer to the mobile communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.