US 7,552,207 B2
Systems for the provision of printing services
Guy Gecht, San Jose, Calif. (US); Philip A. Lodwick, Richfield, Minn. (US); Loren Schoenzeit, Orono, Minn. (US); John D. Steinberg, Millbrae, Calif. (US); and Ofer Tenenbaum, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Foster City, Calif. (US)
Filed on Nov. 08, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/984,464.
Application 10/984464 is a continuation of application No. 09/688457, filed on Oct. 16, 2000, granted, now 6,859,832.
Prior Publication US 2005/0094201 A1, May 05, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—223  [709/219; 709/250] 69 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for providing printing services, comprising:
spooling means for receiving and storing one or more print jobs from a print job source via a network; and
polling means associated with a printing means, said polling means capable of polling the spooling means via the network to identify a print job associated with the polling means, wherein said polling means is located within a gateway firewall;
wherein the spooling means comprises a trusted location, and wherein said spooling means is located outside said gateway firewall.