Method, system and program product for multi-profile operations and expansive profile operation

• US 7,062,752 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2001
• Issued: 06/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Simpson, Shell S., Foster, Ward S., Livingston, Kris R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dam, Tuan
• Assistant Examiner(s): KENDALL, CHUCK O
• Application Number:
  US09/924,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20030041249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,770 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-227, 713/161, 713168-172, 713/201, 713/202, 717100-123, 707 2- 10
• US Class Current: 717/120
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

A program product, method and system including machine readable code for accessing compositions, comprising: code for providing access to a plurality of user profiles, with each different user profile including a reference to a different composition store and a different graphics store; and code for selecting one of the plurality of user profiles. In one embodiment, the plurality of user profiles include an internal user profile including a reference to an internal composition store inside a firewall and a reference to a default internal graphic store inside the firewall; and an external user profile including a reference to an external composition store outside the firewall and a reference to a default external graphic store outside the firewall.

Claims

1. A program product including machine readable code for accessing compositions, comprising:

code for providing access to a plurality of user profiles of a single user, with each different user profile including a reference to a composition store and a graphics store wherein, for each user profile, the references to the composition and graphic stores in that user profile are different than the references in each of the other user profiles and wherein at least one user profile is disposed in a first server machine and a second user profile is disposed in a second server machine; and

code for selecting one of the plurality of user profiles, wherein the plurality of user profiles or references thereto and the code for selecting are disposed in an imaging client.

2. A program product as defined in claim 1, wherein the plurality of user profiles include

an internal user profile including a reference to an internal composition store inside a firewall and a reference to a default internal graphic store inside the firewall;

an external user profile including a reference to an external composition store outside the firewall and a reference to a default external graphic store outside the firewall.

3. A program product as defined in claim 2, wherein the code for selecting the user profile comprises code for automatically selecting the user profile based on whether the imaging client is inside or outside the firewall.

4. The program product as defined in claim 2, further comprising code for invoking a method to select a composition in a composition store as a default composition based on whether the imaging client is inside or outside the firewall.

5. The program product as defined in claim 4, wherein the method selects the composition to be the default composition from an internal default composition in the default internal composition store and an external default composition in the default external composition store.

6. A program product as defined in claim 1, wherein the code for selecting automatically selects one of the user profiles based on a criteria.

7. A program product as defined in claim 6, wherein the criteria is whether an accessing imaging client is inside or outside of a firewall.

8. A program product as defined in claim 1, wherein the code for selecting the user profile provides a user display to facilitate manual selection of the user profile.

9. The program product as defined in claim 1, further comprising code for referencing a default composition.

10. The program as defined in claim 9, further comprising code for invoking a method to select a composition in a composition store as the default composition.

11. The program product as defined in claim 1, wherein each of a plurality of different compositions references at least one graphic in a graphic store that is external to the composition store and includes data to place the referenced graphic within the composition.

12. A method for accessing compositions from an imaging client, comprising the steps of:

providing a first user profile and a second user profile for a single user, with each different user profile including a reference to a composition store and a graphics store, wherein, for each user profile, the references to the composition and graphic stores in that user profile are different than the references in each of the other user profiles and wherein at least one user profile is disposed in a first server machine and a second user profile is disposed in a second server machine; and

selecting one of the user profiles based on a criteria, and

wherein the first user profile and the second user profile or references thereto are disposed in an imaging client.

13. A method as defined in claim 12, wherein the first user profile is an internal user profile including a reference to an internal composition store inside a firewall and a reference to a default internal graphic store inside the firewall;

and

wherein the second user profile is an external user profile including a reference to an external composition store outside the firewall and a reference to a default external graphic store outside the firewall.

14. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein the criteria is whether the imaging client is inside or outside of a firewall.

15. A program product including machine readable code for accessing compositions, comprising:

a user profile that includes

a reference to a default internal graphics store behind a firewall;

a reference to a default internal composition store inside the firewall that includes compositions that include a reference to graphics;

a reference to a default external graphics store outside the firewall;

a reference to a default external composition store outside the firewall that includes compositions that include a reference to external graphics;

a reference to a default composition,

the product further comprising code in either a profile store or the user profile, the code for invoking a method to select a composition as the default composition, wherein the profile or a reference thereto and the code for invoking the method are disposed in an imaging client.

16. The program product as defined in claim 15, wherein the code selects the default composition based on whether the imaging client is inside or outside the firewall.

17. The program product as defined in claim 16, wherein the code selects the composition to be the default composition from an internal default composition in the internal composition store and an external default composition in the external composition store.

18. A method for accessing compositions, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a first user profile of a single user including a reference to an first composition store meeting a first criteria and a reference to a first graphic store meeting the first criteria;

obtaining a second user profile of the single user including a reference to a second composition store that meets a second criteria and a reference to a second graphic store that meets the second criteria; and

selecting one of the first user profile and the second user profile based on a third criteria, wherein the first criteria is that the first composition store and first graphics store is inside a firewall, wherein the second criteria is that the second composition store and second graphics store is outside a firewall, and the third criteria is whether a user imaging client is inside or outside the firewall, and

wherein the first user profile and the second user profile or references thereto are in an imaging client.

19. A method for accessing compositions, comprising:

obtaining a user profile that includes

a reference to a first graphics store that meet a first criteria;

a reference to a first composition store that includes compositions that include a reference to graphics, wherein the first composition store meets the first criteria;

a reference to a second graphics store that meets a second criteria;

a reference to a second composition store that includes compositions that include a reference to graphics and wherein the second composition store meets the second criteria;

a reference to a default composition within a composition store; and

selecting one of the composition stores based on a criteria, wherein the criteria is an identification of the imaging client machine.

20. A system for accessing compositions, comprising:

a component for obtaining a user profile that includes

a reference to a first graphics store that meet a first criteria;

a reference to a first composition store that includes compositions that include a reference to graphics, wherein the first composition store meets the first criteria;

a reference to a second graphics store that meets a second criteria;

a reference to a second composition store that includes compositions that include a reference to graphics and wherein the second composition store meets the second criteria;

a reference to a default composition within a composition store; and

a component for selecting one of the composition stores based on a criteria,

wherein the component for obtaining a user profile, the user profile or a reference thereto and the component for obtaining a user profile are disposed in an imaging client.