Methods and system for managing credit card usage in pre-paid printing system accounts

作者: Peter Charles Rapley , James Patrick VanWinckle , Shanti Villarreal , Sara Kleiman , Charles Robert Carlson

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关键词: World Wide WebDocument processingSubject (documents)EngineeringCredit cardAccount manager

摘要: Methods and systems are presented for managing prepaid usage of document processing devices, in which an account manager system (104) automatically purchases credits customer accounts applies print units to devices registered periodically according preset top off thresholds (123, 128) subject predefined limits (124, 129), computer agents (360) allow just time printing using with job-based application selected devices.

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