Patent ID: 8327361

Claim:
A system comprising: a print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit having a complex resource generator to receive partial resource components, the partial resource components including base resources such as printing instructions, wherein the complex resource generator to generate a partial complex resource having the partial resource components, wherein the partial complex resource represents a partially derived resource from the base resources, wherein the partial complex resource is identified by a unique Object Identifier (OID) generated using the base resources as input; generate a shell representing a final form of a complex resource, the shell to hold the partial complex resource; store the partial complex resource within the shell such that the shell is used for subsequent accesses of the partial complex resource without having to regenerate the complex resource each time the partial complex resource is subsequently accessed; and complete the partial complex resource into the complex resource by adding newly generated resource components to the partial complex resource that are queried and not located within the partial complex resource.