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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2000
Benjamin Russell Grimes, Zebulon, NC (US);
Benjamin Russell Grimes, Zebulon, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A paperless printing system for storing and displaying documents produced by print facilities of a data processing system comprises a docking station in communication with a printer port of the data processing system. The docking station receives, from the data processing system, printer data that defines one or more documents. A portable viewer that is removably coupled with the docking station receives the printer data from the docking station. A rewritable memory within the portable viewer stores the printer data. One or more controls on the portable viewer respond to operator manipulation by causing the portable viewer to utilize the printer data to display a desired portion of the one or more documents at least when the portable viewer is not coupled with the docking station and not in communication with the data processing system. In an illustrative embodiment, the system also includes a printer driver in the data processing system that is associated with the paperless printer. An operating system in the data processing system responds to an invocation of a print function of an application by utilizing the printer driver to generate the printer data.