US 11,789,674 B2
Orphaned print job renewal
Jayalakshmi Manjunath Bhat, Bangalore (IN); Divya Bidarakatte Nanjarangalah, Bangalore (IN); Deb Rupam Banerjee, Bangalore (IN); Poornima Angadi Hiremath, Bangalore (IN); and Lakshmi venkataswamy Setty, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,598
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/018722
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/167597, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 201941015584 (IN), filed on Apr. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0382489 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/122 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1267 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
identify a stored print job as potentially orphaned;
identify an owner of the stored print job;
determine when there is a renewal option associated with the stored print job;
request authorization from the owner to renew the stored print job in response to determining the renewal option is associated with the stored print job; and
in response to receiving the authorization from the owner to renew the stored print job, determine whether the authorization is authenticated, then renew the stored print job only when the authorization is authenticated.