US 9,870,479 B2Granted

Method of handling a document stored in a cloud storage system and associated user credentials for processing by an authenticated printing system and system for performing the method

AssigneeNext Print Technologies Aps

InventorTavs Dalaa

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Abstract

Due to different formats for documents, in particular different means of identifying users, it is a problem how to handle a document in a cloud storage system, in which a user is identified by first user credentials, for processing by an authenticated printing system for which the user is identified by second user credentials. This problem is solved by a method comprising the steps of: i. obtaining the document from the cloud storage system, the document comprising document metadata comprising the first user credentials, ii. obtaining the second user credentials based on the first user credentials, iii, obtaining a print job corresponding to the document, the print job comprising print job metadata comprising the second user credentials, and iv. forwarding at least the print job metadata comprising the second user credentials, to the authenticated printing system for the processing. A system and a computer program product for performing the method are also provided.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of handling a document stored in a cloud storage system, in which a user is identified by first user credentials, for processing by an authenticated printing system for which said user is identified by second user credentials, comprising the steps of

i. obtaining said document from said cloud storage, said first user credentials being associated with said document,
ii. obtaining said second user credentials based on said first user credentials, wherein said second user credentials are obtained by contacting the user using the first user credentials from the user and obtaining the second user credentials from the user,
iii. obtaining a print job corresponding to said document, said print job comprising print job metadata comprising said second user credentials, and
iv. forwarding at least said print job metadata, comprising said second user credentials, to said authenticated printing system for said processing,
wherein the steps of the method are performed by a processing server serving as an intermediary between the cloud storage system and the authenticated printing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/031,507Filed 25 Oct 2013
Published: US 2016/0267282 A115 Sep 2016
Granted: 16 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 21/608
By securing the transmission between two devices or processes: secure printing
G06F 3/1296
Digital output to print unit , e.g. line printer, chain printer: printer job scheduling or printer resource handling
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
G06F
Computing and data processing