Floyd L Lewis

US Patent:

20020169837, Nov 14, 2002

Filed:

May 11, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/854050

Inventors:

Arvind Taranath - Milpitas CA, US
Floyd Lewis - San Ramon CA, US
Vasuki Kasturi - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/206000

Abstract:

A method for enabling client side batch printing in a computer network environment wherein system users subscribe to specific report types and request delivery or printing of those reports at specific times, a server monitors the time and when the time corresponding to a specific report or group of reports occurs, accesses the data necessary to assemble the reports, places the reports in a printer-friendly format, compresses the reports for transmission and stores the compressed reports, provides notice to the system user that the reports are ready for printing and provides a deliver selector, monitors the delivery selector for activation and, when the delivery selector is activated, causes the compressed reports to be transmitted to a browser running on a workstation used by the user, decompresses the reports and prints out each one of the reports in a printer-friendly format.