Printer with vacation mode

• US 7,064,851 B1
• Filed: 11/25/2000
• Issued: 06/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Lapstun, Paul, Silverbrook, Kia
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Kimberly
• Assistant Examiner(s): SINGH, SATWANT K
• Application Number:
  US09/722,148
• Time in Patent Office: 2,033 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.13, 358/1.12, 358/1.1, 358/1.14, 358/1.16, 714/46, 714/47, 714/48, 382/100
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 : including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 : Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0015 : First party call control architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 : with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 : with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 : with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 : with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 : Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 : by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 : in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 : on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32778 : using a mark-sheet or machine-readable code request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 : in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 : Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 : sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 : Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 : Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 : Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 : of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 : Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 : using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/187 : Continuous sectional layer

Abstract

A document delivery system including a server (12) for receiving and/or generating documents and for transmitting said documents to a user (10), the system having a first operative mode in which the server (12) transmits documents to the user (10) and a second operative mode in which the sever (12) does not transmit documents to the user (10) and the system (12) stores data relating to any pending document which has not been transmitted to the user (10) and, when the mode changes from the second mode to the first mode the system (12) retrieves or generates an electronic summary of the pending document or documents and transmits a user summary corresponding to the electronic summary to the user (10).

Claims

1. A printing system including a printer for printing documents based at least in part on print data and a network server for receiving and/or generating print jobs and for transmitting print data to the printer corresponding to the print jobs, the system having a first operative mode in which the network server transmits print data to the printer and the printer prints documents and a second operative mode, in which the printer does not print documents and the network server stores data relating to pending print jobs which have not been printed and when the mode changes from the second mode to the first mode the network server retrieves or generates an electronic summary of the pending print jobs and causes the printer to print a printed memory summary corresponding to the electronic summary.

2. The system of claim 1 including selection means to enable a user to select any print job on the printed summary for:

a) printing, or

b) deletion from the electronic summary.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein a print job selected on the printed summary for printing is printed and a print job selected on the printed summary for deletion is deleted from the electronic summary.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the a print job selected on the printed summary for printing is deleted from the electronic summary after printing.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the selection means includes a user interface on the printer.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the pages are printed with coded data indicative of a print selection and a delete selection for each entry and the selection means includes a sensor for sensing the coded data.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein each entry in the electronic summary is retained for a selected period of time after entering the first mode from the second mode unless the respective entry is deleted beforehand and at the end of the selected period any entries in the electronic summary are deleted.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein in the second mode the server stores the data relating to the print jobs and on changing from the second to the first mode the server generates the electronic summary and forwards a print job corresponding to the electronic summary to the printer.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein in the second mode the server transmits print data to the printer and the printer receives and stores the print data and on changing from the second to the first mode the printer generates the electronic and printed summaries.

10. The system of claim 1 further including a user interface for changing the operative mode of the system between the first and second modes or vice versa.

11. A network server for receiving and/or generating print jobs and for transmitting print data corresponding to the print jobs to one or more printers, the network server having first and second operative modes for each printer, wherein in the first operative mode the server transmits print data to the printer for printing and, in the second operative mode the server receives and/or generates print jobs but does not send print data to the respective printer and the network stores data relating to any pending print job which has not been printed and, when the mode changes from the second mode to the first mode the network server retrieves or generates an electronic summary and causes the respective printer to print a printed summary corresponding to the electronic summary.

12. The server of claim 11 wherein a print job selected on the printed memory for printing is printed and a print job selected on the printed summary for deletion is deleted from the electronic summary.

13. The server of claim 12 wherein the a print job selected on the printed summary for printing is deleted from the electronic summary after printing.

14. The server of claim 11 wherein each entry in the electronic summary is retained for a selected period of time after entering the first mode from the second mode unless the respective entry is deleted beforehand and at the end of the selected period any entries in the electronic summary are deleted.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the second mode the server stores the data relating to the print jobs and on changing from the second to the first mode the server generates the electronic summary and forwards a print job corresponding to the electronic summary to the respective printer.

16. The system of claim 15 including selection means to enable a user to select any document on the user summary for:

a) transmittal to the user;

or

b) deletion from the electronic summary.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the document selected on the user summary for transmittal to the user is deleted from the electronic summary after transmittal.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein a document selected on the user summary for transmittal is transmitted and a document selected on the user summary for deletion is deleted from the electronic summary.

19. A document delivery system including a network server for receiving and/or generating documents and for transmitting said documents to a user, the system having a first operative mode in which the network server transmits documents to the user and a second operative mode in which the network server does not transmit documents to the user and the network server stores data relating to any pending document which has not been transmitted to the user and, when the mode changes from the second mode to the first mode the network server generates an electronic summary of the pending document or documents and transmits a user summary corresponding to the electronic summary to the user.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein each entry in the electronic summary is retained for a selected period of time after entering the first mode the second mode unless the respective entry is deleted beforehand and at the end of the selected period any entries in the electronic summary are deleted.