| US 7,463,380 B2 | ||
| Spooling/despooling subsystem job fingerprinting | ||
| Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Tigard, Oreg. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 23, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/831,482. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0237557 A1, Oct. 27, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 15/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 358—1.15 [358/1.13] | 38 Claims |
| 1. A method for print job fingerprinting, the method comprising:
accepting an electronically formatted document;
generating a print job;
in a spooling/despooling subsystem embedded in a host selected from the group including a client computing device, print provider,
and a print server, accepting job ownership/origination fingerprint information selected from a group consisting of user name,
biometric data, and a digital signature associated with the electronically formatted document source;
adding a fingerprint image to the print job using a spooling/despooling subsystem component selected from the group including
a spooler, port manager, print processor, and print assist module, generating a fingerprinted print job;
sending the fingerprinted print job from the spooling/despooling subsystem to a printer; and,
generating a hardcopy of the document with the fingerprint image.
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