Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

International Business Machines Corporation

Kumaravel Ganesan

Rajesh Bhatia

Ritesh Ranjan Jha

Palanikumar Thangapandian

Lenin Fernandes

Puneet Kumar Arora

Karthikeyan Ponnalagu

Jojee Thomas Chackalackal

Diane R Hammerstad

Prashant Asthana

Bibhu Prasad Biswal

Deepak Ramachandran

Rajesh Muthukrishnan

Dhanendra Jain

Gurpreet Singh Bhatia

Supriya Pillutla

Examples disclosed herein provide for the handling of a print job for a printer via a mobile device. The mobile device receives a notification from a computing device to indicate the print job is available for printing. Upon the mobile device joining a wireless network associated with the printer, the mobile device delivers the print job from the mobile device to the printer via the wireless network.

Mobile device for automatically delivering print jobs to printers

A system and method for registering a user with a subscription service for a printer is described. A network-enabled printer can determine when a mobile computing device is brought into a sufficient proximity of the network-enabled printer. The network-enabled printer can receive account information for a user of the mobile computing device when the mobile computing device is brought into the sufficient proximity and transmit the account information to a remote provider in order to register the network-enabled printer and the user with the subscription service.

Method, computer-readable medium, and machine for registering a user with a subscription service using a network-connected printer

Examples disclosed herein relate to wireless communication of print content. Examples include a remote printing request acquired by a remote printing server from a mobile device, the remote printing request including first print content and identifying a mobile device identifier. Examples further include second print content and the mobile device identifier acquired via direct wireless communication.

Wireless communication of print content and a mobile device identifier

A print server may include a processor, a memory, and instructions stored on the memory and executable by the processor. In an example, the instructions may include: a print subscription component to control printing by a print subscription user according to a first printing quota associated with the print subscription user, and a print reservation component to reserve a second printing quota from the first printing quota for scheduled printing.

Print reservation

Examples disclosed herein relate to providing access to digital content using a machine-readable link. As an example, an annotation comprising digital content, for a portion of a digital content, is identified in response to a print request. Based on the annotations, a machine-readable link associated with the digital content is generated. Subsequently, a printable format version of the digital document comprising the machine-readable link, and excluding the annotation is obtained wherein the machine-readable link is readable by a computing device to obtain access to the digital content over a communication network.

Digital content access using a machine-readable link

A method includes, with a physical computing system, executing a navigational application for a printer interface of a printer connected to the physical computing system through a network, with the physical computing system, using a content model for the navigational application, the content model defining attributes and a category for a screen. The method further includes, with the physical computing system, receiving content associated with the category, and with the physical computing system, providing to the printer the screen and the content in a format that is executable by the printer.

Content model for a printer interface

According to an example, cloud off-ramp management may include generating folders on a cloud storage system and retrieving content from the folders based on folder settings. Retrieved content may be sent over the Internet to a device associated with the content.

Cloud off-ramp management

In one example, a printer address for a network-connected printer, a printer location, and an identifier for a mobile computing device are received. Responsive to receiving a message that is sent to the printer address and that includes a print job, the print job is stored. The identifier is sent to a tracker computing device. A mobile device location is received from the tracker device. Responsive to determining a calculated distance between the mobile device and the printer is less than or equal to a trigger distance, the print job is sent to the printer.

Sending print jobs using trigger distances

In one example, a printer consumable is locked to a content provider. A document that includes content restricted by a provider is printed if the printer consumable is installed in the printer.

Printer consumable locking

In one example, a cloud-based printing service that calculates cumulative usage data of a consumable.

Cumulative consumable usage in cloud-based printing services

In one embodiment, a first assignment is received. The first assignment is an assignment of a category tag to first content accessible via a first printer application. A second assignment is received. The second assignment is an assignment of the category tag to second content accessible via a second printer application. The first and second assignments are stored. Functionality to facilitate retrieval of content via the assignments is provided to a network-connected printer. A request to print selected content from among the first and second content is received. Responsive to the request, the selected content is retrieved, raster processed, and sent to the printer.

Content retrieval via assignments

In one embodiment, first content is received, via an email address from which printable content is received from a plurality of computing devices, from a network-connected computing device. The first content is stored. An access code is sent to the publisher device. The code is received from a network-connected printer. The code is compared to a database or registry that associates the access code with the first content. The first content is caused to be rendered. The rendered first content is sent to the printer for printing.

Content receipt via email addresses

In one embodiment, a registry of network-connected printers that are members of a social print group is maintained at a computer system. Content is obtained. A request is received from a first network-connected printer that is a member of the group, the request to provide the content to a second network-connected printer that is a member of the group. The content is provided to the second printer in response to the request.

Sharing content in a content database among printers via a request from a first printer

In one embodiment, a registry of network-connected printers that are members of a social print group is maintained at a computer system. Content is obtained. A first request is received from a first printer that is a member of the group. The first request is a request to share the content with a second printer that is a member of the group. A communication that the content is accessible at the second printer is sent. A second request is received from the second printer. The second request is a request to provide the content to the second printer. Content is provided to the second printer.

Providing printable content

A web service request is received by an intermediary that performs a conversion of the requestor's service interface to the service interface supported by a service provider matching the requested service, then invokes that service. A reverse conversion is performed when passing a reply to the requester. The web serving intermediary maintains a library of each target service in terms of the target service's tModel and on its binding protocol support. The intermediary receives web service requests from requesters including their source tModel and target web service information. The intermediary identifies a mapping aspect to invoke the target web service from the aspect library. The target service tModel is embodied in the mapping aspect which is weaved into the code invoking the target service at runtime. In this way, the interface logic is decided at run time.

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Kumaravel Ganesan