Patent
1995-06-06
1998-07-28
Rogers, Scott
395114, 395831, 395859, 395885, G06F 1300
Patent
active
057872376
ABSTRACT:
A network printing system for enhancing two-way communication between host computers and printers connected to a network. More particularly, the network printing system provides an imaging device protocol (DP) which enables various network service protocol/ports for host computers to communicate with the printer by "seamless plug and play" connectivity. IDP operates independently of the network layers below and only requires that the transport protocol/port be bidirectional. IDP allows all of the incoming print job information to be placed in the print queue regardless of the protocol for a wide variety of heterogenous network protocols. As a result, the network printing system enables print jobs from host computers connected to the network by a wide variety of heterogenous network protocols to be fairly arbitrated at the printer.
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Apple Computer Inc.
Rogers Scott
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