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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
William John Vojak, Battle Ground, WA (US);
William John Vojak, Battle Ground, WA (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
A secure mobile printing method and system allow a user to unlock remotely submitted print jobs without having to remember job identifiers and without imposing onerous barcoding requirements on printer firmware or requiring the user to scroll through a list of print jobs on a printer's front panel display screen. An exemplary method, performed on a mobile device, comprises initiating a print job, assigning a job identifier for the print job, selecting a printer for the print job, sending to the selected printer the print job and the job identifier whereby the print job is locked on the selected printer, imaging a printed printer identification code (PIC) on an exposed surface of the selected printer, resolving the printed PIC image to the job identifier, and sending to the selected printer the job identifier whereby the print job is unlocked.