Appeal No. 1999-0482
Application 08/632,331
proposed amendment will be entered and the status of the
claims are as follows: Claims 1, 4, 5, 8, 13 through 16 and 20
are allowed. Claims 9 through 12 and 17 through 19 stand
rejected. We note that the file shows that claims 2, 3, 6, 7
and 12 have been canceled. Therefore, claims 9 through 11 and
17 through 19 are the only claims that are before us on this
appeal.
The invention relates to the control of multiple print
jobs that are respectively directed to different printers.
Independent claim 9 is reproduced as follows:
9. A method for managing the printing of documents in a
system having multiple printers, comprising the steps of:
establishing separate folders that are respectively
associated with said printers;
providing data which relates a document to be printed to
a print manager;
creating a data file which describes the document and
storing the data file in memory;
passing a reference to the data file from the print
manager to the folder that pertains to a designated one of
said printers on which the document is to be printed;
launching a spooler program stored in the folder that is
associated with the designated printer;
transmitting the data from the file to a printer driver
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