Patent ID: 8880738
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print device comprising: one or more hardware processors; a dispatcher that is configured to receive SOAP requests from client devices; configuration data that indicates one or more mappings, wherein each of the one or more mappings associates an operation with a plug-in module; a plug-in handler; one or more plug-ins; a print service that conforms to a standard specification and that is configured to receive print data and generate a printed version of an electronic document reflected in the print data; wherein the dispatcher is further configured to: wherein the plug-in handler is configured to call the particular plug-in using one or more plug-in APIs, wherein calling the particular plug-in includes passing particular print data from the SOAP request to the particular plug-in for processing by the particular plug-in to generate processed print data; wherein the plug-in handler is configured to receive the processed print data from the particular plug-in; and wherein the plug-in handler is configured to send the processed print data to the print service.