Patent ID: 8867069
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print server including instructions stored on a computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor, the print server comprising: a printer registration module configured to receive, at a cloud print service, a registration request from a cloud-enabled printer over a network, the printer registration module configured to transmit a registration response to the cloud-enabled printer over the network, the registration response including a claim code and a polling uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the claim code is provided to the user by the cloud-enabled printer or communicated from the cloud-enabled printer to a device of the user, the printer registration module configured to periodically receive, over the network, an authentication request from the cloud-enabled printer based on the polling URL, the printer registration module configured to receive, over the network, the claim code from the cloud-enabled printer or the device, and match a user account of the user with the cloud-enabled printer in response to receipt of the claim code such that the cloud-enabled printer is registered with the user account of the user, the printer registration module configured to transmit, over the network, an authentication credential to the cloud-enabled printer for storage thereon in response to a recently-received authentication request and a successful matching of the user account of the user with the cloud-enabled printer.