Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

William R Frolik

Dana E Laursen

Theodore E Ransom

William T McMahon

George M Sachs

Kurt J Hausheer

The publisher of sequential issues of information makes these issues available only in sequence and only in accordance with certain rules such as the sequence can be accessed only for a set number of issues and only in ascending numerical order. A subscriber requests a subscription to the sequential issues. A service provider creates and maintains a unique record of the subscription that contains certain subscriber information. When the subscriber attempts to retrieve an issue, a calculation is made to determine whether the issue requested falls within the rules and time frames established for delivery of the requested issue. Delivery is accomplished for acceptable issue numbers via a network.

Delivery of sequential information

A computer system includes an application with the ability to select printer settings from any of a variety of potential sources, and associate the printer settings with a document to be printed. The potential sources may include user-selected sets of printer settings that are particular to the document to be printed, are associated generally with the documents to be printed using the application, and globally associated with the computer system. The potential sources may also include a set of content-provider printer settings associated with the document and selected by a content-provider of the document.

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Albany, OR, United States of America

William R Frolik