619 results about "Print server" patented technology

There is provided an apparatus for remotely monitoring a computer network. Monitoring is performed using an inside out approach from behind firewalls and other security devices. The monitoring appliance is shipped to a client site preconfigured and typically requires no technically trained person for installation. Collected network data is periodically transmitted to a remote monitoring facility where it is recorded and analyzed. Both the monitoring appliance and the remote center maintain the configuration data. Typically, no client data is transmitted to the remote monitoring site. If the monitoring appliance fails, a completely configured replacement may be shipped to the site and easily installed. The monitoring appliance is optionally equipped to provide network services. Services such as web hosting, file server, print server, virtual private network (VPN), shared Internet access, web content filtering, anti-virus, spam e-mail elimination, and IP telephony services as well as other such services may be easily provided.

This invention provides an automatic authentication method and system in a print process, which can obviate the need for user's input operations of the user ID and password and can improve security since authentication is automatically done based on print information embedded in a file or information from an application program without any user's input.In a print process that requires user authentication, a printer driver extracts information related to an application and / or a document for the print process as attribute information, and user authentication is made by comparing the attribute information with information stored in a user registration information database of a server. If user authentication has succeeded, the printer driver controls a printer to print, and the server manages and stores accounting information and the like for respective departments in a department management information database.

Techniques are disclosed for coupling a printer to a mobile communications device (such as a cellular telephone), downloading printing information (such as a digital image) to the printer over a wireless network through the mobile communications device, and using the printer to print output based on the printing information. A user may use the mobile communications device to connect to a printing server that serves the printing information. Prior to transmission of the printing information to the printer, the printing server may process the printing information to tailor the printing information based on the capabilities of the printer. The printing server may communicate with the printer using one or more printing protocols. The printer may be equipped with a controller for communicating according to the printing protocol.

The remote printing system allows one user to ultimately send a hard copy to another via a portable digital device such as a cellular phone. Upon receiving an e-mail print notice, the portable digital device wirelessly searches an appropriate print station in the vicinity by broadcasting a signal. In response to the broadcasted search signal, the print stations each send information on their printer characteristics such as availability status and print resolution to the portable digital device, a print server or a client that originated the print request. The recipient of the printer characteristic information selects an appropriate print station based upon a predetermined selection rule.

A printing control system utilizes the resources of the printer system effectively when the documentary image is printed including images. The format is used, in which image information is managed and controlled in a plurality of resolutions, as well as by a plurality of tile information. Such format is also effectively utilized. To this end, the printing control system includes the image server that supplies and / or controls image information, the print server that controls the output processes, the print controller that controls a plurality of print servers, and also controls the output processes, and the network that connects these constituents. It is made possible to determine the print server that executes the image output on the basis of the designated order of priorities. The image information is transmitted together with the print order, which are synthesized again on the designated print server.

A method and apparatus which generates a copy of the print data file for a print job and utilizes the copied data file to calculate the amount of marking material required to print the print job while allowing the processing of the print job to proceed without interruption or delay. A print server in a computer or printing system receives print jobs originating at one or more host computers. At the print server the print job data file is copied and a separate task using the copy calculates the amount of marking material required to print the print job proceeds in the print server background in parallel with the conventional processing of the print job. The print job file is converted to a universal file format prior to being transmitted to the print server. Once the print job in universal file format is copied for the task of calculating the amount of marking material required to print the print job, the universal file format file is converted to a page description language file prior to print job processing and transmission to an imaging device.

A client print server link is provided, which uses two-way communication between a client computer and a printing system typically having networked output devices and print servers. The client print server link provides detailed information regarding each print server and connected device within a printing system. The client print server link allows a client user at a client computer to access information and control each of their print jobs quickly and efficiently within a single application, without requiring the user to access a plurality of separate utilities. The client print server link groups and displays information that is relevant to print jobs sent by a single client user to one or more all connected print servers and output peripheral devices. An administrative print server link is also provided, which also uses two-way communication between a computer and a networked printing system. The administrative print server link provides detailed system information and control for multiple client users, print servers and output devices.

An object of the present invention is to readily and efficiently execute print control when outputting from a remote client to a desired printer via the internet or when printing by using an attribute setting matched with an output mode of a given document. Therefore, in case of performing printing by a desired printer out of a plurality of printers on the internet, an attribute setting file corresponding to a document to be printed is previously stored in a print server on the internet, and this attribute setting file is used with respect to the same or similar document to carry out the document printing.

Operations wherein print layout(s) is or are edited and print job(s) is or are created are made capable of being carried out efficiently. In template mode, apportionment of image(s) is ordinarily carried out with template(s) being set for each individual page. Group(s) are closed for each page. Package(s) may be such that a plurality of templates are treated as a single pack (multiple pages), and group(s) within package(s) may be such that all are treated as if it or they are the same group(s), the same image(s) being assignable thereto. List(s) (dropdown list(s)) of name(s) of template(s) corresponding to print media size(s) specified at media / printer selection area 146 may be displayed at screen(s) which is or are presented when package(s) is or are employed. Layout editor(s) obtain such template information (dropdown list(s)) from print server machine(s). Upon selection of only a single desired template name from such a list, description(s) of that template name may be displayed below that list and selected template(s) may be displayed at layout display area(s).

This invention provides a service which allows the user of the client apparatus that submits a print request to preview an image to be printed, and can reduce the information volume with the client apparatus to achieve quick response, and prints a high-quality image with the requested size. For this purpose, a center server (102) on the network stores and manages display image data, and transfers requested display image data upon receiving a request from a client computer. Upon receiving a request including a print size from the client computer, the center server sends the print size and information that specifies an image to an image server which saves high-resolution images. Upon receiving the information, the image server processes high-resolution image data to have the designated size, and sends back the processed image data to the center server. The center server sends the received image data to a print server to make it print the data.

A printing server includes a registration request reception unit, a registration unit which allocates connection information for connection with the transmission origin of the registration request and an electronic mail address for receiving a printing request to the transmission origin of the registration request, a registration information transmission unit which transmits the registration information which has been allocated, a connection unit which receives the connection information and starts connection, a printing data generation unit which generates printing data, a printing waiting information transmission unit which transmits printing waiting information to the transmission origin of the XMPP connection request using XMPP when the printing data is generated, and a printing data transmission unit which receives an acquisition request for the printing data and transmits the printing data to the transmission origin of the acquisition request for the printing data according to the acquisition request for the printing data.

A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium.

In photo studio system 10, a count which represents a number of printing operations with regard to each of the printer 40 and 50 is reset to zero in response to successful establishment of connection of a print server 20 with the management server 70. The printer 40 and 50 are allowed to continuously carry out printing operations as long as the count is reset to zero before reaching the preset value. On the other hand, failed establishment of connection with the management server 70 causes the count to reach the preset value and imposes restrictions on the printing operations with regard to each of the printer 40 and 50. Each of the printers is not allowed to continue printing operations over a long time period in the state of disconnection from the management server. This arrangement desirably prevents the management server from suffering significant losses.

A method and system for scanning documents in a network environment and merging the resulting scan files with other documents into a printing workflow provides a user interface in which the user merges a scan file and a document file on a page basis by selecting thumbnail images of the desired pages and dragging and dropping the thumbnails so that a new merged document results. An alternative embodiment allows the user to apply predefined merge templates to the selected pages. The predefined merge templates may include printing and formatting instructions such as color settings and a page layout.The system architecture provides a color print server and a client workstation in communication with the color print server. A scanning device, which may be a dedicated scanner or the platen of a copying machine is connected to the color print server or the client workstation. The scanning software, resident on either the color print server or the workstation allows the user to customize the scan and apply modifications to the image after scanning. Scanned images may be retrieved by email or over the World Wide Web. The color print server and the attached scanning device may also function as a color copier.

A print server temporarily stores into a spooler, print data contained in print jobs, which are accepted from scanners and clients. The print server also outputs a portion of the print data as a sample print and the remaining print data thereof as a final print when the print jobs are executed in accordance with a predetermined condition.

A network system for printing digital print files, including personal workstations of users and a plurality of printers. The system further includes a print service and a print file storage service, that may be implemented in several ways. A user may submit a print file without specifying a particular printer on which the file must be printed. Then, he can walk up to any of the printers and start the print process for his print file there. In operation, the print service receives the print file, extracts metadata specifying job information from the file, and stores the file in the print file storage service. The metadata of the file are transmitted to the printers, which include the metadata in local print selection mechanisms resident in said printers. The user may select his print file at the operating panel of any one of the printers and start the printing process. In response, that printer fetches the print image data of the selected file from the print file storage service and prints the file.

The invention relates to an intelligent terminal printing system based on cloud computing technology. The intelligent terminal printing system comprises an intelligent user terminal, a printer terminal and a cloud printing server, wherein the intelligent user terminal and the printer terminal are respectively connected with the cloud printing server through networks. The cloud printing server comprises a user management module, a printer management module, a safety management module, a printing request processing module, a printing agent module and various document application modules, the printer terminal finishes printing operation, and the cloud printing server is used for registering and managing users and printers, receiving, processing and storing printing requests transmitted by the users, converting formats of received documents and the like. The intelligent terminal printing system is high in traceability, wide in application, convenient in printing and fine in printing effect, all the printers capable of accessing the internet can be supported, the received documents to be printed can be automatically converted into formatted documents acceptable by the printer terminal, malicious users can be effectively prevented from attacking the printers, and resource waste is decreased.

The present invention proposes a printing system, printing method, and printing program for printing the content data of the website browsed by the terminal which mounted memory has a small capacity such as mobile phone.The mobile phone transmits the access information such as address information of the content data to be printed held in the web server to the print server; the print server access the web server based on the access information, downloads the content data to be printed and transmits the content data to the multi-function printer; and the multi-function printer prints the content data.

A client transmits a request, which requests a print processing path, to a path detecting server, and in response receives path information indicating a print processing path from the path detecting server. The client transmits the path information and PDL data to an apparatus subsequent to the client on the print processing path indicated in the path information. The path detecting server receives the request from the client and finds a print processing path referring to information of printers and print servers stored in an apparatus information database. A path detecting server transmits to the client path information indicating the print processing path.

The remote printing system allows one user to ultimately send a hard copy to another via a portable digital device such as a cellular phone. Upon receiving an e-mail print notice, the portable digital device wirelessly searches an appropriate print station in the vicinity by broadcasting a signal. In response to the broadcasted search signal, the print stations each send information on their printer characteristics such as availability status and print resolution to the portable digital device, a print server or a client that originated the print request. The recipient of the printer characteristic information selects an appropriate print station based upon a predetermined selection rule.

A print server connected to medical diagnostic imaging equipment via a network or dedicated channels, wherein the print server executes a process to identify the device that is the source of image data received via the network or dedicated channels and outputs the image data to a specific sorter bin in a printer based on this source. The image output processor can also selectively choose a sorter bin as an output destination for the image data, based on either attribute data or the device that transmitted the image data, depending on the communication protocol.

An image forming apparatus has: pluralities of sheet storage units; a printing unit; a sheet driving unit that feeds a sheet of paper from the sheet storage units to the printing unit; a group setting maintaining unit that forms a group of the sheet storage units; a residual sheet amount detecting unit that detects sheet empty on any of the sheet storage units in the group; a sheet storage switching control unit that controls the sheet driving unit to select another one of the sheet storage units in the same group for feeding a sheet, if the residual sheet amount detecting unit detects the sheet empty; and a sheet empty warning unit that warns a user of the sheet empty detected by the residual sheet amount detecting unit.

Disclosed is / are printing system(s) suitable for photo studio(s) and having capabilities permitting proper management of print job execution history or histories, printer status(es), and / or the like. Photo studio(s) 1 has print server machine(s) 2 and plurality of client machines 5A, 5B connected via LAN(s) 4. Client machine(s) 5A, 5B create print job data which is received by print server machine(s) 2, the print job(s) being assigned to plurality of printers 3A, 3B where it or they is or are executed. Print server machine(s) 2 manage print job execution history, printer status, and / or other such print information. User(s) may employ WWW browser(s) of client machine(s) 5A, 5B to access print information at print server machine(s) 2. Furthermore, print server machine(s) 2 automatically inform client machine(s) 5A, 5B upon completion of execution of print job(s) and / or upon occurrence of printer error(s). From a multiplicity of photo studio(s), center server machine(s) 8 gather, by way of the Internet, print information of respective photo studio(s), create web page(s) indicating status(es) of operations at respective studio(s), and make same available to respective studio(s) and / or dealer(s). Occurrence of error(s) at respective studio(s) may be communicated in real time from center server machine(s) 8 to user(s) of respective studio(s) via electronic mail.

A data structure, document data stream, method and apparatus for identifying resources prior to printing. A print data stream structure is provided that can be specified at the beginning of a document or job, or on any page boundary in a document or job, and that identifies complex resources that are required by the pages that follow. This structure is processed by a print server, which uses the resource references to download any missing resources before printing of the following pages is started. Accordingly, print underruns are avoided by ensuring that complex resources are downloaded to the printer before the first page is initiated.

A print server comprises: a list request receiving unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, a printer list request containing information indicating a printer capable of printing; an acquisition unit configured to send a request to a printer to acquire a status indicating whether the printer can print, thereby acquiring the status; and a sending unit configured to send, to the client terminal that has sent the printer list request, printer list data described in a format for display on a Web browser of the client terminal using the status of the printer that has been acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein when the acquisition unit cannot acquire the status of the printer, the sending unit sends the printer list data containing a command which allows the Web browser of the client terminal to inquire a status of a printer whose status cannot be acquired.

A telestration system comprises a telestration server configured to communicate with an arbitrary number of telestration clients over a network. The telestration server is further configured to receive telestration input signals from respective ones of the clients and to send telestration output signals to the respective clients, with the telestration output signal sent to a given one of the clients comprising telestration information derived from the telestration input signal received from at least one other one of the clients. Each of the clients with the support of the telestration server can generate a combined telestration overlay for presentation with associated visual content shared between the clients.

In a condition that a printing device cannot be used, print can be requested to other print managing device. A center server 102 includes a print server information storage device 210 for registering vacant status of printing devices managed by a plurality of print servers 103, and each print server 103 includes external print request means 207 for requesting print of print order data to other print server 103, status registration means 205 for registering vacant status information of the printing device managed by the server itself in the print server information storage device 210, and external print request candidate reference means 206 for automatically selecting other print server 103 to which the print of the print order data is requested on the basis of the vacant status information of the printing devices managed by other print servers 103 registered in the print server information storage device 210.

A system for managing administration of computer services provided to users includes a computer system and an operating system running on the computer system. A server process is launched by the computer system for providing services to users. An isolated Virtual Private Server (VPS) has a set of services that perform administrative operations relating to the server process. The server process can be a webserver, a file server, an FTP server, an authentication server, a VPS, a chroot environment, a jail environment, a sand box environment, a print server and a Windows Terminal Service. The administrative operations can include collection of statistics relating to the server process; servicing of requests for management of the server process; servicing of requests for management of operating system functions; servicing of requests for computer system resource allocation; servicing of requests for computer system resource re-allocation; servicing of requests for authorization within the operating system; servicing of requests for authorization within the server process; servicing of requests that the server process is forbidden from executing; servicing of operations that potentially can cause a fault in the server process; and servicing of operations that require multiplexing of server processes. The multiplexing can be based on a network protocol addressing, or on a content of a request directed to the server process. The VPS isolation can include logical isolation of processes, physical isolation of processes, resources isolation, namespace isolation, data isolation, address isolation, fault isolation and performance isolation.