Patent ID: 7409452

Claim:
A method for submitting a document service request from a mobile device to a document processing device coupled to a first network and being adapted to communicate with one or more servers coupled to a second network, comprising: establishing simultaneously, from the mobile device, a first connection and a second connection with the document processing device; specifying, at the mobile device, a document service request that includes a document identifier identifying a document in a first document format and its location on the second network; submitting, from the mobile device over the first connection with the document processing device, the document service request together with a device identifier to an output server coupled to the second network; receiving, at the mobile device over the first connection with the document processing device, the document in a second format from the output server; the second format of the document being an input format of the document processing device; and resending, from the mobile device over the second connection with the document processing device, the document received from the output server in the second format to the document processing device for performing a specified document service thereon; and wherein the first connection and the second connection are separate connections.