Patent ID: 8042166

Claim:
A method of printing in a network comprising: establishing a two-way connection from a user equipment to a printing system, wherein the printing system is not trusted by a firewall and the user equipment is trusted by the firewall; establishing a secure connection between the user equipment and a server protected by the firewall; from the user equipment, selecting a file on the server; from the user equipment, passing information to the printing system, the information comprising a reference to the file including an address of the user equipment in the network and a path from the printing system via the user equipment to the server for acquiring the file; causing the printing system to generate and send to the user equipment a request for the server to supply the printing system with a copy of the file, the request identifying the file by the reference; causing the user equipment to read and authenticate the request; causing the user equipment to send the request to the server, wherein the request appears to the server to be coming from the user equipment within the network; and causing the printing system to print the file.