Anonymous printer registration in a cloud-based print service

US8867069B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Mike Jazayeri · New York, US
• Sanjeev Radhakrishnan · San Jose, US
• Abhijit Kalamkar · Sunnyvale, US
• Marc Pawliger · San Jose, US
• Scott Byer · Cupertino, US
• Yevgeniy Gutnik · Sunnyvale, US
• Yuri Dolgov · Mountain View, US
• Tyler Odean · San Francisco, US
• Paolo Ferraris · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 21, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 9, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/1225
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A print server may include an anonymous printer registration module configured to receive, at a cloud print service, a registration request from a printer over a network and return a registration response to the printer over the network. The anonymous printer registration module may include a claim code provider configured to provide a claim code included within the registration response to the printer over the network, wherein the printer is configured to provide the claim code to a user of the printer, and a printer matcher configured to receive the claim code from the user over the network and match a user account of the user within the cloud print service with the printer, in response to the receipt of the claim code from the user.