CN106775509A - A kind of cloud Method of printing and cloud printing server - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a cloud printing method and server. The method includes: receiving and saving printer registration messages of one or more printers sent by a provider client; establishing a printer list and sending it to the user client according to the information of each registered printer terminal; receive the print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, send the print request message to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer ID, and receive the print confirmation/print rejection information returned by the provider client And send it to the user client; receive the file to be printed sent by the user client, and send the file to be printed and the print setting information to the corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identification. According to this solution, users can choose any cloud printer distributed in the Internet to print files anytime, anywhere, whether they are working, at home, or traveling, so as to meet the user's off-site printing needs anytime, anywhere.

Description

A cloud printing method and cloud printing server

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of the Internet, in particular to a cloud printing method and a cloud printing server.

Background technique

With the continuous development of Internet technology, people can use the Internet to accomplish more and more things. Among them, using the Internet to perform off-site printing anytime and anywhere is one of the important development trends subverting the traditional on-site printing method.

In the existing technology, the vast majority of people are still using the traditional on-site printing method for printing, and quite a few people are questioning the necessity and safety of off-site printing. When presenting a printed document, one has to send the electronic version of the document to be printed to the other party through communication software (email or instant messaging software, etc.), and the other party accepts it and prints it by itself. This process requires the simultaneous cooperation of both parties to complete a process. It is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to print documents in different places.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention is proposed to provide a cloud printing method and a cloud printing server that overcome the above problems or at least partially solve the above problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a cloud printing method is provided, the method comprising:

Receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the binding between the printer and the provider client relationship; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer;

According to the information of each registered printer, build a printer list and send it to the user client;

Receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, where the print request message includes: printer identification and print setting information;

Send the print request message to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client;

receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, and sending the file to be printed and the print setting information together to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.

Optionally, the method further includes:

receiving the print file receiving address sent by the user client;

Sending the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

Optionally, the printer description information includes: print quotation; then the method further includes:

receiving payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client;

receiving the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and sending the payment information to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

Optionally, the method further includes:

The printing evaluation information sent by the user client is received, and the evaluation information is added to the corresponding printer information in the printer list.

Optionally, the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, and size.

Optionally, the method further includes:

receiving a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sending the dialog information to a provider client bound to a corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displaying it;

And, receiving a dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a user ID, sending the dialog information to a corresponding user client according to the user ID and displaying it.

Optionally, the printer registration message of each printer further includes: printer connection information;

The method further includes: establishing a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information.

Optionally, after receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, the method further includes:

Store the files to be printed in the file database;

A print job about the file to be printed is generated and put into a job queue; the print job includes: a printer identifier, an identifier of the file to be printed, and print setting information.

Optionally, the sending the file to be printed and the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier includes:

Take out the printing task from the task queue, obtain the corresponding to-be-printed file from the file database according to the identification of the to-be-printed file in the printing task, and send the to-be-printed file and the print setting information to the corresponding printer according to the printer identification in the printing task , so that the printer prints the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a cloud printing server is provided, the server includes:

The printer registration unit is adapted to receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the printer and The binding relationship of the provider client; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer; according to the information of each registered printer, a list of printers is established and sent to the user client;

The request processing unit is adapted to receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, the print request message includes: a printer identifier and print setting information; and send the print request message according to the printer identifier To the provider client bound to the corresponding printer, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client;

The print processing unit is adapted to receive the file to be printed sent by the user client, and send the file to be printed together with the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.

Optionally, the print processing unit is further adapted to receive the print file receiving address sent by the user client; and send the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

Optionally, the printer description information includes: print quotation; the server further includes:

The printing payment unit is adapted to receive the payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client; receive the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and send the payment information to the Describes the provider client that is bound to the corresponding printer.

Optionally, the server further includes:

The printing evaluation unit is further adapted to receive the printing evaluation information sent by the user client, and add the evaluation information to the corresponding printer information in the printer list.

Optionally, the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, and size.

Optionally, the server further includes:

The dialog processing unit is adapted to receive a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message includes: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sends the dialog information to a provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displaying; and receiving a dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a user ID, sending the dialog information to a corresponding user client according to the user ID and displaying it.

Optionally, the printer registration message of each printer further includes: printer connection information;

The print processing unit is further adapted to establish a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information.

Optionally, the print processing unit is further adapted to store the file to be printed in the file database; generate a print job related to the file to be printed and put it into the task queue; the print job includes: printer identification, to-be-printed Identification and print setup information for the file.

Optionally, the print processing unit is adapted to take out the print job from the job queue, obtain the corresponding file to be printed from the file database according to the identifier of the file to be printed in the print job, and obtain the corresponding file to be printed according to the identifier of the printer in the print job Sending the file to be printed together with the print setting information to the corresponding printer, so that the printer can print the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

As can be seen from the above, the technical solution provided by the present invention receives the printer registration messages of each printer distributed in the Internet, and displays the information of each printer in the printer list, so that the user client can select a suitable printer according to the printing demand; The print request message sent by the client, the print request message includes the printer identification and print setting information selected by the user client, which can reflect the basic requirements of the user client for current printing, and the print request message is transferred to the printer and returned to the printer Whether the party accepts the response to the printing request, if the printing request is accepted, a printing service will be established to directly drive the printer selected by the user client to print the file to be printed according to the basic requirements of the current printing; At home or traveling abroad, you can choose any cloud printer distributed in the Internet to print files anytime, anywhere, to meet the off-site printing needs of users anytime, anywhere.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of the present invention. In order to better understand the technical means of the present invention, it can be implemented according to the contents of the description, and in order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable , the specific embodiments of the present invention are enumerated below.

Description of drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment and are not to be considered as limiting the invention. Also throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same parts. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 shows a flow chart of a cloud printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a cloud print server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a cloud print server according to another embodiment of the present invention

detailed description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for more thorough understanding of the present disclosure and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 shows a flowchart of a cloud printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 1, the method includes:

Step S110, receiving the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and storing it in the printer registration database.

Wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the binding relationship between the printer and the provider client; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer. The printer ID is the unique identification of the printer.

Step S120, according to the information of each registered printer, create a printer list and send it to the user client.

Step S130, receiving a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list.

Wherein, the print request message includes: printer identification and print setting information. The print setting information includes corresponding parameters such as the number of printed pages, paper quality, single-sided printing/double-sided printing, color printing/black and white printing, printing size, printing date, etc., to fully reflect the printing needs of the user client.

Step S140, sending the print request message to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier, receiving the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and sending it to the user client.

In this step, since the print request message includes the printer identification and print setting information, the print request message includes relevant information such as "which printer to print", "what to print", and "how to print", and the corresponding printer provides The vendor can consider whether it can provide a print service that meets the requirements in the above print request message according to the current load of the corresponding printer and other factors, and then return a print confirmation message/print rejection message; if a print confirmation message is returned, the print service is established Up, the user client will further provide the file to be printed.

Step S150, receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, sending the file to be printed and the print setting information to the corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier; making the corresponding printer print the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

It can be seen that the method shown in Figure 1 receives the printer registration messages of each printer distributed in the Internet, and displays the information of each printer in a printer list, so that the user client can select a suitable printer according to the printing demand; The print request message sent, the print request message includes the printer identification and print setting information selected by the user client, which can reflect the basic requirements of the user client for current printing, transfer the print request message to the printer, and return whether the printer Accept the response of the printing request, if the printing request is accepted, establish a printing service, directly drive the printer selected by the user client to print the file to be printed according to the basic requirements of the current printing; according to this scheme, whether the user is working, at home, or Or travel abroad, you can choose any cloud printer distributed in the Internet to print files anytime, anywhere, to meet users' off-site printing needs anytime, anywhere.

Since the printing method implemented in this solution is off-site printing, the printed file needs to be further delivered to the destination specified by the user for follow-up operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method shown in FIG. 1 further includes: Receive the print file receiving address sent by the user client; send the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer, so that the provider client bound to the corresponding printer will deliver the printed file to the print file receiving address. In this embodiment, the user can print the file to be printed to any designated location through the cloud printing service provided by this solution, which is very convenient and efficient for users with printing needs.

In the technical solution provided by the present invention, the user has a printing demand, and the printer provider provides the user with a printer that meets the printing service of the printing service. The printing service can be paid to promote the formation of a printing supply and demand chain. Therefore, in one embodiment of the present invention, the printer description information includes: print quotation; for each printer in the printer list, according to the print quotation of the printer and the print setting information in the current print request message, the current print quotation can be determined. The required fee; therefore the method shown in Figure 1 further includes: receiving payment information corresponding to the print quotation and print setting information sent by the user client; receiving payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and sending the payment information to the corresponding Provider client for printer bindings. Among them, the user client can send payment confirmation information after knowing that the printing service has been completed, for example, when the printed file has been successfully delivered to the file receiving address, to complete the payment of the current printing fee; If the payment confirmation information is still not sent after a long preset period of time, and no relevant reasons have been submitted, it is considered that the user client is in arrears of the printing fee without reason, and the payment information uploaded by the user client before will be directly sent to the printer bound to the corresponding printer. provider client to ensure the fairness of printing services.

In an embodiment of the present invention, after the printing event ends, the method shown in FIG. 1 further includes: receiving the printing evaluation information sent by the user client, and the printing evaluation information is the user client's evaluation of the corresponding printing service. Feedback, adding the evaluation information to the corresponding printer information in the printer list, so that the printer list further includes the printing evaluation information of many user clients for each printer. In a statistical sense, the number of user clients for a printer The printing evaluation information of the printer can objectively reflect the level of the printing service quality of the corresponding printer, which is another valuable consideration factor when the user client selects a printer in the printer list.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, size and other parameters characterizing the basic functions of the printer.

In an embodiment of the present invention, a communication channel between the user client and the provider client is further provided. Specifically, the method shown in FIG. 1 further includes: receiving a dialogue message sent by the user client, the The dialog message includes: dialog information and a printer identifier, and the dialog information is sent to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displayed; and, receiving the dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog The message includes: dialog information and a user ID, and the dialog information is sent to a corresponding user client and displayed according to the user ID.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the printer registration message of each printer also includes: printer connection information (interface address, login instruction); Establish a connection with the corresponding printer to complete the subsequent operation of sending the print setting information and the file to be printed to the corresponding printer, so that the corresponding printer prints the file to be printed according to the print setting information to meet the printing needs of the user client.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in order to ensure the orderly working status of each registered printer, after receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, the method shown in FIG. 1 further includes: storing the file to be printed into the file database; generate a print job about the file to be printed and put it into the job queue; the print job includes: printer identification, identification of the file to be printed and print setting information.

Then step S150 sending the file to be printed and the print setting information to the corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier includes: taking the print job from the job queue, and according to the identifier of the file to be printed in the print job Obtain the corresponding to-be-printed file from the file database, send the to-be-printed file and the print setting information to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier in the print task, so that the printer can print the to-be-printed file according to the print setting information.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a cloud print server according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the cloud print server 200 includes:

The printer registration unit 210 is adapted to receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the printer The binding relationship with the provider client; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer; according to the information of each registered printer, a printer list is established and sent to the user client.

The request processing unit 220 is adapted to receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, where the print request message includes: a printer identifier and print setting information; and converts the print request message according to the printer identifier Send to the provider client bound with the corresponding printer, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client;

The print processing unit 230 is adapted to receive the file to be printed sent by the user client, and send the file to be printed together with the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.

It can be seen that the cloud print server shown in Figure 2 receives the printer registration messages of each printer distributed in the Internet, and displays the information of each printer in the printer list, so that the user client can select a suitable printer according to the printing demand; The print request message sent by the client, the print request message includes the printer identification and print setting information selected by the user client, which can reflect the basic requirements of the user client for current printing, and the print request message is transferred to the printer and returned to the printer Whether the party accepts the response to the printing request, if the printing request is accepted, a printing service will be established to directly drive the printer selected by the user client to print the file to be printed according to the basic requirements of the current printing; At home or traveling abroad, you can choose any cloud printer distributed in the Internet to print files anytime, anywhere, to meet the off-site printing needs of users anytime, anywhere.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the print processing unit 230 is further adapted to receive the print file receiving address sent by the user client; and send the print file receiving address to the provider client bound with the corresponding printer end.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, and size.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the printer registration message of each printer further includes: printer connection information; the print processing unit 230 is further adapted to establish a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the print processing unit 230 is further adapted to store the file to be printed in the file database; generate a print job about the file to be printed and put it into the task queue; the print job includes: a printer ID, ID of the file to be printed and print setting information.

The print processing unit 230 is adapted to take out the print job from the job queue, obtain the corresponding file to be printed from the file database according to the identifier of the file to be printed in the print job, and convert the file to be printed according to the identifier of the printer in the print job together with the print setting information to the corresponding printer, so that the printer can print the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a cloud print server according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3 , the cloud print server 300 includes: a printer registration unit 310 , a request processing unit 320 , a print processing unit 330 , a print payment unit 340 , a print evaluation unit 350 and a dialog processing unit 360 .

Wherein, the printer registration unit 310, the request processing unit 320, and the print processing unit 330 correspond to the printer registration unit 210, the request processing unit 220, and the print processing unit 230 in the cloud print server 200 shown in FIG. repeat.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the printer description information includes: print quotation;

The printing payment unit 340 is adapted to receive the payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client; receive the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and send the payment information to The provider client that is bound to the corresponding printer.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the printing evaluation unit 350 is adapted to receive the printing evaluation information sent by the user client, and add the evaluation information to the information of the corresponding printer in the printer list.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the dialog processing unit 360 is adapted to receive a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message includes: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sends the dialog information to The corresponding printer is bound to the provider client and displayed; and, receiving the dialogue message sent by the provider client, the dialogue message includes: dialogue information and user identification, according to the user identification, the dialogue information is sent to the corresponding The user client and display.

It should be noted that the embodiments of the server shown in FIGS. 2-3 are correspondingly the same as the embodiments of the method shown in FIG. 1 , which have been described in detail above and will not be repeated here.

To sum up, the technical solution provided by the present invention receives the printer registration messages of the printers distributed in the Internet, and displays the information of each printer in the printer list, so that the user client can select a suitable printer according to the printing requirements; The print request message sent by the user client. The print request message includes the printer identification and print setting information selected by the user client, which can reflect the basic requirements of the user client for current printing. The print request message is transferred to the printer and returned Whether the printer accepts the response to the printing request, if the printing request is accepted, a printing service will be established to directly drive the printer selected by the user client to print the file to be printed according to the basic requirements of the current printing; The specified file receiving address delivers the printed files, and provides an interface to receive the print evaluation information of the user client on the printing service and add it to the printer list, as well as provide a channel for the user client to communicate with the provider client. According to this solution, users can choose any cloud printer distributed in the Internet to print files anytime, anywhere, whether they are working, at home, or traveling, so as to meet the user's off-site printing needs anytime, anywhere.

It should be noted:

The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, virtual appliance, or other device. Various general purpose devices can also be used with the teachings based on this. The structure required to construct such an apparatus will be apparent from the foregoing description. Furthermore, the present invention is not specific to any particular programming language. It should be understood that various programming languages can be used to implement the content of the present invention described herein, and the above description of specific languages is for disclosing the best mode of the present invention.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, in order to streamline this disclosure and to facilitate an understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or its description. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the device in the embodiment can be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more devices different from the embodiment. Modules or units or components in the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-assemblies. All features disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) and any method or method so disclosed may be used in any combination, except that at least some of such features and/or processes or units are mutually exclusive. All processes or units of equipment are combined. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments but not others, combinations of features from different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention. and form different embodiments. For example, in the following claims, any of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art should understand that a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) may be used in practice to implement some or all functions of some or all components in the cloud print server according to the embodiments of the present invention. The present invention can also be implemented as an apparatus or an apparatus program (for example, a computer program and a computer program product) for performing a part or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for realizing the present invention may be stored on a computer-readable medium, or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an Internet site, or provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

The invention discloses A1. A cloud printing method, wherein the method includes:

Receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the binding between the printer and the provider client relationship; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer;

According to the information of each registered printer, build a printer list and send it to the user client;

Receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, where the print request message includes: printer identification and print setting information;

Send the print request message to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client;

receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, and sending the file to be printed and the print setting information together to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.

A2. The method as described in A1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving the print file receiving address sent by the user client;

Sending the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

A3. The method as described in A1, wherein the printer description information includes: printing quotation; then the method further includes:

receiving payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client;

receiving the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and sending the payment information to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

A4. The method as described in A1, wherein the method further comprises:

The printing evaluation information sent by the user client is received, and the evaluation information is added to the corresponding printer information in the printer list.

A5. The method according to A1, wherein the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, and size.

A6. The method as described in A1, wherein the method further includes:

receiving a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sending the dialog information to a provider client bound to a corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displaying it;

And, receiving a dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a user ID, sending the dialog information to a corresponding user client according to the user ID and displaying it.

A7. The method according to A1, wherein the printer registration message of each printer further includes: printer connection information;

The method further includes: establishing a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information.

A8. The method as described in A1, wherein, after receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, the method further includes:

Store the files to be printed in the file database;

A print job about the file to be printed is generated and put into a job queue; the print job includes: a printer identifier, an identifier of the file to be printed, and print setting information.

A9. The method as described in A8, wherein the sending the file to be printed and the print setting information to the corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identification includes:

Take out the printing task from the task queue, obtain the corresponding to-be-printed file from the file database according to the identification of the to-be-printed file in the printing task, and send the to-be-printed file and the print setting information to the corresponding printer according to the printer identification in the printing task , so that the printer prints the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

The present invention also discloses B10, a cloud printing server, wherein the server includes:

The printer registration unit is adapted to receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the printer and The binding relationship of the provider client; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer; according to the information of each registered printer, a list of printers is established and sent to the user client;

The request processing unit is adapted to receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, the print request message includes: a printer identifier and print setting information; and send the print request message according to the printer identifier To the provider client bound to the corresponding printer, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client;

The print processing unit is adapted to receive the file to be printed sent by the user client, and send the file to be printed together with the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.

B11. The server as described in B10, wherein,

The print processing unit is further adapted to receive the print file receiving address sent by the user client; and send the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer.

B12. The server as described in B10, wherein the printer description information includes: print quotation; the server further includes:

The printing payment unit is adapted to receive the payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client; receive the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and send the payment information to the Describes the provider client that is bound to the corresponding printer.

B13. The server as described in B10, wherein the server further includes:

The print evaluation unit is adapted to receive the print evaluation information sent by the user client, and add the evaluation information to the corresponding printer information in the printer list.

B14. The server according to B10, wherein the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, and size.

B15. The server as described in B10, wherein the server further includes:

The dialog processing unit is adapted to receive a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message includes: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sends the dialog information to a provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displaying; and receiving a dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a user ID, sending the dialog information to a corresponding user client according to the user ID and displaying it.

B16. The server as described in B10, wherein the printer registration message of each printer further includes: printer connection information;

The print processing unit is further adapted to establish a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information.

B17. The server as described in B10, wherein,

The print processing unit is further adapted to store the file to be printed in the file database; generate a print job about the file to be printed and put it into the task queue; the print job includes: a printer identifier, an identifier of the file to be printed and Print setup information.

B18. The server as described in B17, wherein,

The print processing unit is adapted to take out the print job from the job queue, obtain the corresponding file to be printed from the file database according to the identifier of the file to be printed in the print job, and print the file to be printed according to the printer identifier in the print job together with the print setting information to the corresponding printer, so that the printer can print the file to be printed according to the print setting information.

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1. A cloud printing method, wherein the method comprises: Receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the binding between the printer and the provider client relationship; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer; According to the information of each registered printer, build a printer list and send it to the user client; Receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, where the print request message includes: printer identification and print setting information; Send the print request message to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer according to the printer identifier, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client; receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, and sending the file to be printed and the print setting information together to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving the print file receiving address sent by the user client; Sending the print file receiving address to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the printer description information includes: print quotation; then the method further includes: receiving payment information corresponding to the printing quotation and the printing setting information sent by the user client; receiving the payment confirmation information sent by the user client, and sending the payment information to the provider client bound to the corresponding printer. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: The printing evaluation information sent by the user client is received, and the evaluation information is added to the corresponding printer information in the printer list. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the printer description information includes one or more of the following: brand, model, performance, resolution, color, size. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a dialog message sent by the user client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a printer identifier, and sending the dialog information to a provider client bound to a corresponding printer according to the printer identifier and displaying it; And, receiving a dialog message sent by the provider client, the dialog message including: dialog information and a user ID, sending the dialog information to a corresponding user client according to the user ID and displaying it. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the printer registration message of each printer further comprises: printer connection information; The method further includes: establishing a connection with the corresponding printer according to the printer connection information. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after receiving the file to be printed sent by the user client, the method further comprises: Store the files to be printed in the file database; A print job about the file to be printed is generated and put into a job queue; the print job includes: a printer identifier, an identifier of the file to be printed, and print setting information. 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the sending the file to be printed and the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier comprises: Take out the printing task from the task queue, obtain the corresponding to-be-printed file from the file database according to the identification of the to-be-printed file in the printing task, and send the to-be-printed file and the print setting information to the corresponding printer according to the printer identification in the printing task , so that the printer prints the file to be printed according to the print setting information. 10. A cloud printing server, wherein the server includes: The printer registration unit is adapted to receive the printer registration message of one or more printers sent by the provider client and save it in the printer registration database; wherein, the printer registration message of each printer includes: the information of the printer, and the printer and The binding relationship of the provider client; the information of each printer includes: the printer identification and printer description information of the printer; according to the information of each registered printer, a list of printers is established and sent to the user client; The request processing unit is adapted to receive a print request message sent by the user client according to the printer list, the print request message includes: a printer identifier and print setting information; and send the print request message according to the printer identifier To the provider client bound to the corresponding printer, receive the print confirmation information/print rejection information returned by the provider client and send it to the user client; The print processing unit is adapted to receive the file to be printed sent by the user client, and send the file to be printed together with the print setting information to a corresponding printer for printing according to the printer identifier.