Patent ID: 6385728
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for printing, across the internet, a file residing at a file server, the method comprising:requesting authorization, by a first computer system to the file server, to print the file; issuing, from the file server to the first computer system, in response to the request, a certificate capable of being passed on to a print server and containing information needed by the print server, including an Internet address of the first computer system and an identifier of the print server to print the file, to request the file; sending the certificate from the first computer system to the print server; sending a message, from the print server to the file server, requesting the file and including the certificate as an authorization to receive the file; and sending the file from the file server to the print server after verifying, from the contents of the certificate, that the included certificate is the same certificate issued to the first computer system and that the print server sending the message requesting the file is the print server identified in the certificate.