US 7,321,437 B2
E-mail to job retention
Travis J. Parry, Boise, Id. (US)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, Tex. (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/966,896.
Prior Publication US 2003/0063309 A1, Apr. 03, 2003
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.15  [358/1.13; 358/402; 709/201; 709/202; 709/203; 709/217; 709/218; 709/219; 709/225; 709/229; 715/500; 715/513] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of sending a print job to a printer, comprising:
attaching at least one document for the print job to an e-mail message;
specifying instructions for printing the at least one document within the e-mail message, the instructions comprising user selected printing attributes for printing the at least one document;
sending the e-mail message with the at least one document attached thereto and the instructions for printing the at least one document specified therein over a network to an e-mail enabled printer, where the e-mail enabled printer includes e-mail client software; and
extracting the at least one document and the instructions for printing the at least one document from the e-mail message by the e-mail enabled printer.