Patent ID: 9158486
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for enforcing policy on print jobs sent to an imaging device from a computing device having a layered service provider configured with an operating system and a spooler, comprising: determining whether data coming to the layered service provider in the computing device corresponds to a print job intended to be sent from the computing device to the imaging device; and if so, and if imaging policies correspond to a user initiating the print job that require applying to the print job, repeatedly acknowledging from the layered service provider to the spooler within the computing device that the data is being successfully transferred to the imaging device but without actually sending any of the data in the print job to the imaging device thereby spoofing the spooler of the computing device so the spooler will continue processing a remainder of the data corresponding to the print job.