Title:
ジョブトークンプリンタ割当システム
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3578714
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A client provides a job ticket token to a print server, which contains the profile of a print job to be printed. The print server parses the job ticket token, determines an appropriate printer for the print job, and returns a selected printer token to the client, that includes the network address and name of the selected printer. The client then sends the print job, accompanied by the selected printer token, to the appropriate printer. In this way, the print job is assigned to a proper printer for the print job by the print server. One advantage of the job token printer assignment system is that the print server does not see the print job, but merely the job ticket token of the print job. Accordingly, the print server does not have to spool a large print job, but merely has to identify the characteristics contained in the job ticket token, and assign the print job to an appropriate printer. Further, because the print job is not transferred to the print server, but merely from the client to the printer, the network does not have to carry the print job twice.
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Inventors:
Schwartz James Kay Jr.
Application Number:
JP2000528909A
Publication Date:
October 20, 2004
Filing Date:
December 04, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Electronics For Imaging Incorporated
International Classes:
G06F3/12; G06F13/00; B41J29/38; (IPC1-7): G06F3/12; B41J29/38
Domestic Patent References:
| JP7072993A |
Foreign References:
| US6476927 | ||||
| EP1047988B1 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Minoru Nakamura
Fumiaki Otsuka
Sadao Kumakura
Shishido Kaichi
Hideto Takeuchi
Toshio Imajo
Nobuo Ogawa
Village shrine Atsuo
Takaki Nishijima
Atsushi Hakoda
Fumiaki Otsuka
Sadao Kumakura
Shishido Kaichi
Hideto Takeuchi
Toshio Imajo
Nobuo Ogawa
Village shrine Atsuo
Takaki Nishijima
Atsushi Hakoda