Thumbnail audit trail in MFP and print processor/spooler-based print-job auditing
First Claim
1. Structure for creating a content-informative audit trail, including subject-representative reduced-image content, in relation to the implementation of a document data-stream which has been initiated by a user with regard to invoking an imaging job, said structure comprising a job initiator, document data-stream structure disposed to convey, and/or have access to, a collection of document data generated from said job initiator and deliverable and/or delivered to a job destination, and data-stream content extractor structure operatively associated with said data-stream structure, operable to extract, and to effect the retention of, a selectively retrievable and reviewable audit-trail sub-collection of reduced-size, but nonetheless functionally informative, data-collection content surrogates.
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Abstract
Structure and methodology for creating a content-informative audit trail derived from text, vector information and imagery, and taking the form of a reduced-size data extraction from a document-job data-stream, such as a data-stream which exists in the context of a document printing, copying, scanning, e-mailing, and faxing job, etc. Selected, reduced-content components of a subject document data-stream are extracted according to various extraction approaches, and extracted information is stored in a appropriate storage site for later review to give an indication of just what printing, scanning, copying, etc activity has taken place with respect to different identified documents.
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1. Structure for creating a content-informative audit trail, including subject-representative reduced-image content, in relation to the implementation of a document data-stream which has been initiated by a user with regard to invoking an imaging job, said structure comprising
a job initiator, document data-stream structure disposed to convey, and/or have access to, a collection of document data generated from said job initiator and deliverable and/or delivered to a job destination, and data-stream content extractor structure operatively associated with said data-stream structure, operable to extract, and to effect the retention of, a selectively retrievable and reviewable audit-trail sub-collection of reduced-size, but nonetheless functionally informative, data-collection content surrogates.
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12. A method for creating a content-informative audit trail, including subject-representative reduced-image content, in relation to the implementation of a document data-stream which has been initiated by a user with regard to invoking an imaging job, said method comprising
furnishing a job initiator, furnishing a document data-stream structure, and employing that structure to convey, and/or to have access to, a collection of document data generated from said job initiator and deliverable, and/or delivered, to a job destination, and furnishing a data-stream extractor structure, and utilizing that extractor structure at a selected location relative to the job initiator to extract and effect collection of a reduced-size, but nonetheless functionally informative, data-stream collection content surrogates derived from a data-stream initiated by the job initiator.
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