Patent ID: 7218406
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method performed on an information appliance for printing a document stored on a remote computer, the method comprising: providing a connection between an information appliance and a remote computer, wherein the remote computer stores one or more documents in a user mailbox; transmitting information regarding a list of user mailbox documents stored on the information appliance from the information appliance to the remote computer; receiving synchronization information from the remote computer, the synchronization information comprising one or more references to one or more documents stored in the user mailbox that are available to a user for printing; updating the list of user mailbox documents stored on the information appliance using the synchronization information received from the remote computer; displaying the updated list of user mailbox documents to the user on a display of the information appliance; receiving a selection of one or more documents from the displayed list of user mailbox documents; receiving a command to print the one or more selected documents; and responsive to receiving the command to print, transmitting a print request to a nearby printer that instructs the printer to retrieve the one or more selected documents from the user mailbox and print the one or more selected documents.