Patent ID: 9661161
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of printing a document in a system comprising a workstation and a printing device communicating with the workstation via a network, the method comprising the following steps: a user selecting, via a printer driver in the workstation, a roaming print mode for printing a document to an unspecified printer in the system; the workstation generating and storing print job data for the document; the workstation assigning ID information of a user to the print job data; the workstation transmitting the assigned ID information to the printing device by multi-casting the assigned ID information to the network; the printing device receiving the multi-cast assigned ID information and storing the received assigned ID information; the printing device receiving ID information input by a user at the printing device; the printing device comparing the stored assigned ID information with the ID information input by the user; the printing device transmitting an authentication signal to the workstation if the input ID information corresponds to the stored assigned ID information based on the comparison; the workstation transmitting to the printing device a list of pending print jobs for which the input ID information is assigned after receiving the authentication signal from the printing device; the printing device receiving the list of pending print jobs from the workstation; the user selecting a number of print jobs from the received list; the printing device transmitting a print job data request signal to the workstation for printing the print job data corresponding to the stored assigned ID information based on the print jobs selected; and the workstation transmitting the print job data for the selected print jobs to the printing device in response to the print job data request signal.