Patent ID: 8065357
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. An output management system to enable printing on a destined output device connected to a private network deployed behind a firewall from an originating device located outside of the firewall, comprising: a computer configured to provide a print service to generate output image data corresponding to input source data and the destined output device, and to provide print preview data to a wireless web-enabled device comprising, when rendered on a user-interface (UI), a simulated representation of a rendered output to be produced by the output device, by generating the print preview data corresponding to display capabilities of the wireless web-enabled device, wherein for image files, said print preview data is generated by creating thumbnails and by adjusting the final output size to fit the vertical and horizontal dimensions of a display of the web-enabled device without losing an aspect ratio, and wherein for non image files, said print preview data is generated by converting the files to a plain text format without losing page relations, and by breaking each page to a series of cards and then by linking these cards together with references to allow page navigation in vertical and horizontal directions on the display of the web-enabled device; a computer configured to provide a message center linked in communication with the computer to provide the print service, located outside of the firewall, including: a web server component to serve renderable data by which the user-interface may be rendered on an originating device operatively linked in communication with the web server component to enable a user to select source data to be rendered and submit a job request to render the source data on the destined output device, wherein the user-interface comprises a wireless-web user interface accessible via the wireless web-enabled device; a client-side component, deployed on the private network and linked in communication with the message center via a link through the firewall; the message center further comprising a system management component manage job requests received from the web server component, and in response thereto: route the selected source data or a reference thereto to the print service; and control delivery of the output image data generated by the print service to the destined output device.