Patent ID: 6704117
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
Method for printing to a virtual printer device in a system including a server and a remote client, each said server and said remote client architected to include at least a physical layer and an application layer, comprising the steps of:establishing a direct persistent application layer connection between said remote client and said server; establishing agreement between said server and said remote client to negotiate at said application layer connection device protocol options; communicating a printer name across said application layer connection from said remote client to said server for a virtual printer at said server associated with a printer device at said remote client; operating a display server at said server selectively for communicating with a virtual display and, responsive to a user request for printing a file, for communicating a printer data stream generated at said server over said direct persistent application layer connection from said virtual printer at said server to said printer device at said remote client.