Patent ID: 6965931

Claim:
A thin print server having no physical user interface, the thin print server comprising: one or more processors; a memory associated with the one or more processors; a network interface providing full-time connection to a network and remote access to the thin print server by one or more client computers; a user interface module stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors providing remote management of the thin print server by the one or more client computers, the user interface module precluding local management of the thin print server; a printer administration module stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors for discovering one or more printers connected to the network and creating one or more shared network print objects, each shared network print object representing a printer connected to the network as a shared network printer; and a printer serving module stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors for receiving print jobs, managing print queues, and forwarding print jobs to a shared network printer for printing.