Printer with anonymous printer registration in a cloud-based print service

摘要

A printer may include a registration requester configured to receive an initiation request from a user to initiate a registration of the printer, and further configured to send a registration request to a cloud print service over a network. The printer may include a claim facilitator configured to receive a registration response from the cloud print service over the network, the registration response including a claim code, and further configured to provide, using printer functionality, the claim code to the user. The printer also may include an authentication manager configured to request an authentication credential issued by the cloud print service in response to a matching of the printer with a user account of the user within the cloud print service, the matching based on a receipt of the claim code from the user at the cloud print service, and further configured to receive and store the authentication credential at the printer.

主权项

1. A cloud-enabled printer, comprising:
a registration requester configured to receive an initiation request from a user to initiate a registration of the cloud-enabled printer, and further configured to send a registration request to a cloud print service over a network, the cloud-enabled printer being configured to support communication with the cloud print service; a claim facilitator configured to receive a registration response from the cloud print service over the network, the registration response including a claim code and a polling uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the claim code is provided to the user by the cloud-enabled printer or communicated from the cloud-enabled printer to a device of the user; and an authentication manager configured to periodically transmit, over the network, an authentication request based on the polling URL, the authentication manager configured to receive, over the network, an authentication credential in response to a recently-transmitted authentication request and a successful matching of the cloud-enabled printer with a user account of the user at the cloud print service, the matching being based on a receipt of the claim code at the cloud print service, the authentication manager configured to store the authentication credential at the cloud-enabled printer.