Patent ID: 9665313
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A network system including provisions for an authorized user to access, from a third party terminal via a network, a production printing system through any of plural document management systems having respective different document organization schemas, the network system comprising: a catalog database that registers a catalog of catalog items available for specified production, wherein each catalog item amongst the catalog items registered in the catalog database is available for order by a production printing user, for production; a generic management interface provided in the production printing system and configured to interface via the network with each of the plural document management systems; and a document management interface provided in any document management system amongst the plural document management systems, the document management system registering content including at least documents, the document management interface being configured to interface with the generic management interface provided in the production printing system and to provide a user interface to the third party terminal to permit the third party terminal to access, subject to authenticated access rights, the production printing system via the document management interface and the generic management interface, to upload a specified document that is registered in the document management system and to publish the specified document to the catalog.