System and method for transferring documents

摘要

Mobile devices enable users to access data and documents in a convenient portable format. The disclosed method and system enables documents to be transferred/moved onto a mobile device for review or reference by making the transfer simple and straight forward so that it is easy for non-technically literate users (e.g. administrative assistant putting documents on their executive's mobile device). From a sender perspective the transfer mechanism can work whether the mobile device is on a local network (relative to the sender) or on a remote network when the sender does not know the actual location of the mobile device.

主权项

1. A method of transferring an electronic document from a sending device to a mobile device the method comprising:
receiving an indication to print an electronic document on the sending device; sending from the sending device to a location server a request generated from a mobile device printer driver executed by the sending device, the request comprising a target identifier for receiving the electronic document; receiving at the sending device from the location server a network identifier of the mobile device associated with the target identifier, the network identifier provided to the location server by the mobile device after the mobile device has registered to a network; formatting at the sending device the electronic document based on one or more parameters associated with the mobile device; and transferring the formatted electronic document from the sending device using the network identifier in response to the indication to print the electronic document; wherein transferring the formatted electronic document further comprises determining an access method through a network address translation (NAT) device between a first network coupled to the location server and the network on which the mobile device is registered when the sender device cannot access the mobile device after attempting a direct connection using the received network identifier.