Mobile print email reply with thumbnails

摘要

Techniques are provided that allow the user to view on his or her mobile device the body of an email or other items from a message service as well as each of the attachments as thumbnails or individual images. As well, techniques allow the user to view particular attributes of each item, e.g. the number of pages and the page size of a particular attachment. Techniques are provided such that the user may view such thumbnails and/or attributes on a unique URL generated as a result of the generated email. Thus, by such techniques, the user is provided with a platform for mobile devices that allows intuitive selection of what should be or is desired to be printed.

主权项

1. A method for printing emails or items from a message service from a mobile device, comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a server capable or enabled to manage or process printing, an item from a mobile device, the item having one or more attachments; responsive to receiving the item, generating a notification message that contains a link to a particular URL and sending the notification message to the mobile device; responsive to the link being activated, at the URL, dynamically generating an object, wherein the dynamically generated object is configured to allow selecting any of the one or more attachments and configured to allow selecting printing options associated with the one or more attachments; and responsive to receiving one or more selections of the one or more attachments and to receiving selected printing options associated with the one or more selections, sending the one or more selections of the one or more attachments and the selected printing options to a printing device; wherein one or more steps of are performed by one or more processors.