Recording medium for storing print document registration program and print document registration method

• US 20070180366A1
• Filed: 04/17/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Sato, Tomonori
• Application Number:
  US11/405,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20070180366A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A recording medium for storing a print document registration program executed by a computer as a user terminal, the print document registration program allowing the computer to function as: a selection unit for allowing a user to select a desired mail message from a displayed list of mail messages in a mail folder used by an electronic mail client program; a conversion unit for converting the mail message selected by the user into a file of which a form does not depend on the electronic mail client program; and a transmission unit for transmitting the converted mail message to a printing management server as an external device of the user terminal.

Claims

1. A recording medium for storing a print document registration program executed by a computer as a user terminal, the print document registration program allowing the computer to function as:

a selection unit for allowing a user to select a desired mail message from a displayed list of mail messages in a mail folder used by an electronic mail client program;

a conversion unit for converting the mail message selected by the user into a file of which a form does not depend on the electronic mail client program; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the converted mail message to a printing management server as an external device of the user terminal.

2. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the conversion unit converts the selected mail message into a text format.

3. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the conversion unit converts the selected mail message into a rich text format.

4. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the selection unit displays contents of the mail message of which preview is designated by the user before the mail message is transmitted by the transmission unit.

5. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the transmission unit associates an attached file of the selected mail message with the converted mail message, and transmits the associated attached file and mail message to the printing management server.

6. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the print document registration program operates on a web browser program.

7. A print document registration method comprising:

displaying a list of mail messages in a mail folder used by an electronic mail client program;

selecting, based on a user selection, a desired mail message the list;

converting the selected mail message into a file of which a form does not depend on the electronic mail client program; and

transmitting the converted mail message to a printing management server as an external device of the user terminal.

8. The print document registration method of claim 7, wherein, in the converting step, the selected mail message is converted into a text format.

9. The print document registration method of claim 7, wherein, in the converting step, the selected mail message is converted into a rich text format.

10. The print document registration method of claim 7, wherein contents of the mail message of which preview is designated by the user is displayed in the selecting step before carrying out the transmitting step.

11. The print document registration method of claim 7, wherein, in the transmitting step, an attached file of the selected mail message is associated with the converted mail message, and the associated attached file and the converted mail message are transmitted to the printing management server.