System and method for users of mobile computing devices to print documents
CA 2759771 A1 · Owner: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc · Inventors: Wu, Zhanbing
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A print service is provided on a network such as the , Internet or a corporate intranet for mobile computing , devices, such as laptops PDA's and Web cell phones, etc. to print documents. When the user of a mobile device wants to print a document, the mobile device is used to access the print service and send a print request that specifies the location the document on the network in terms of URL. In response, the print service validates the print request retrieves the document, renders the document for printing and prints the document as requested by the user. Alternatively, the document may be directly provided by the mobile device to the print service.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 12, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 12, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 12, 2025.
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