Automatic network device selection and document delivery system
First Claim
1. A system for delivering documents across a network providing an integrated solution to deliver a document to one or more different destinations or recipients, regardless of an end form which the document is presented, which system comprises:
- a document generator at a client'"'"'s side and configured to translate an input data stream into a data stream having an output device independent format;
to embed additional data into the data stream indicative of at least two disparate desired output presentations, selected from hard copy print job, fax, archival and email; and
to output the device independent format data steam;
a computer configured to receive the device independent format data stream and programmed to analyze the data stream to determine a best output device by comparing any features required by the data stream with features of any output devices available to the computer; and
the computer further being programmed to translate the device independent data stream into a device specific data stream for the best output device and to transmit the device specific data stream to the best output device.
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Abstract
A system of networked computers and peripherals and document delivery software which provides a user with a familiar simple user interface to deliver documents to a variety of different destinations. Each document generation device participating in the system is provided with a unified print driver which translates an electronic document into a non-specific or printer independent printer language file and appends to this file a job ticket containing any other rendering characteristics which may not be supported by the printer independent language. This entire file is then transmitted to the system server which analyzes the file, including the rendering characteristics; determines the best output device(s); appends output device specific commands to the general printer language file; and transmits this file to the device(s) for final output.
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92 Claims
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1. A system for delivering documents across a network providing an integrated solution to deliver a document to one or more different destinations or recipients, regardless of an end form which the document is presented, which system comprises:
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a document generator at a client'"'"'s side and configured to translate an input data stream into a data stream having an output device independent format;
to embed additional data into the data stream indicative of at least two disparate desired output presentations, selected from hard copy print job, fax, archival and email; and
to output the device independent format data steam;a computer configured to receive the device independent format data stream and programmed to analyze the data stream to determine a best output device by comparing any features required by the data stream with features of any output devices available to the computer; and the computer further being programmed to translate the device independent data stream into a device specific data stream for the best output device and to transmit the device specific data stream to the best output device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A system for delivering documents across a network providing an integrated solution to deliver a document to one or more different destinations or recipients, regardless of an end form which the document is presented, which system comprises:
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a document generator at a client'"'"'s side and configured to selectively translate an input data stream into a data stream having an output device independent format based on selection signals, to selectively output a data stream in a device specific format or the device independent format based on the selection signals, and to embed additional data into the data stream indicative of at least two disparate desired output presentations, selected from hard copy print job, fax, archival and email; a computer configured to receive the data stream from the document generator programmed to analyze the data stream to determine a best output device by comparing any features required by the data stream with features of any output devices available to the computer; and the computer further being programmed to translate the data stream into a device specific data stream for the best output device and to transmit the device specific data stream to the best output device. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92)
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