Patent Document ID: 9104353
Application ID: 13853045

Base Claim:
1. A printing system for printing documents over a network, the printing system comprising: a processor; and a memory storing machine readable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: receive, from a user, a document including content to be printed; ascertain whether the document is confidential, based on a determination as to whether text indicating that the document is confidential is present in the content to be printed; in response to ascertaining that the document is confidential, generate an authentication code corresponding to the document to provide print control of the document to authorized users, wherein the authorized users includes the user, and wherein the authentication code is a code to ascertain that the authorized users are authorized to print the document; and provide the authentication code to the authorized users to provide the print control.

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Claim 2:
2. The printing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the determination of whether text indicating that the document is confidential is present in the content to be printed includes a determination as to whether the text indicating that the document is confidential is located at at least one of a plurality of predefined locations in the document.