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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Koji Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Koji Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printing method for printing an electronic file using a printing device is disclosed. The printing device is connected via a network to a user terminal and to a file server in which electronic files accompanied by respective identifiers are stored. The method includes the steps of enabling the printing device to receive a print request from the user terminal via the network, the print request containing the identifier of the electronic file, to retrieve the electronic file from the file server via the network using the identifier of the electronic file and to print the retrieved electronic file.