Patent ID: 7333224
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing printed documents, the method comprising: receiving a print request, wherein the print request includes a notification schedule for unretrieved print jobs and a notification recipient; assigning an identifier to a print job associated with the print request; sending the print job for printing; printing the print job having the identifier printed in association with the printed print job; upon receiving confirmation that the print job has completed printing, adding the identifier to an unretrieved print job queue to begin a notification procedure to send the notification recipient identified in the print request notification according to the notification schedule identified in the print request; and receiving confirmation that the print job has been retrieved from a scanning mechanism that detects the identifier associated with the printed print job, indicating that the print job has been retrieved by removing the identifier from the unretrieved print job queue and ending the notification procedure when the identifier has been removed from the unretrieved print job queue.