Patent ID: 8810812
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for consolidating and managing rendering jobs, said method comprising: determining if at least one rendering job is a secure rendering job or is a personal rendering job; identifying said at least one rendering job as said secure rendering job or said personal rendering job according to said determining; transmitting said at least one rendering job to a multifunction device; automatically creating only one folder wherein said folder has no sub-folders, based on a username associated with a user upon receiving said at least one rendering job with respect to said multifunction device in order to thereafter collect subsequent rendering jobs in said one folder; selecting said one folder associated with said user from a plurality of folders in order to thereafter consolidate, manage, and render said at least one rendering job associated with said one folder; selecting said at least one rendering job associated with said one folder in order to thereafter delete said at least one rendering job; and automatically deleting said one folder from said multifunction device once all of said at least one rendering jobs have been removed.