Patent ID: 7405844

Claim:
A pseudo print job system for managing scan jobs, the system comprising: a scanning device including: a scan unit having an interface to receive a document and an interface to supply a scan job in response to scanning the document; and, a scan controller having an interface to accept pseudo print job requests, to accept the scan jobs, to supply scan jobs for spooling in response to the pseudo print job request, the scan jobs cross-referenced to a document identifier selected from a group consisting of a user name, a host name, an application process name, a job name automatically generated from the scan job image, and an automatically generated job number, and to supply spooling/despooling statements; a storage device having an interface to accept scan jobs for spooling, to accept spooling/despooling statements, to store scan jobs cross-referenced to document identifiers, and to supply despooled scan jobs in response to despooling statements.