Print job resumption using alternate network interfaces
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsShakti Amarendra, Krishnaswamy R, Anuradha Asuri, Sivakami Velusamy
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Abstract
In one example, a printing device is disclosed, in which a network detection unit may discover available network interfaces associated with a client device upon detecting a printer network interface on which a print job is being received is down, a communication unit may send a link status notification to the client device via the available network interfaces associated with the client device, and a network switching unit may resume the print job using an alternate printer network interface that is accessible by the client device based on the link status notification.
Claims15
A printing device comprising:
- a network detection unit to discover available network interfaces associated with a client device upon detecting a printer network interface of the printing device on which the printing device is receiving a print job from the client device is down;
- a communication unit to send a link status notification to the client device via the available network interfaces associated with the client device;
- and
- a network switching unit to resume the print job at the printing device using an alternate printer network interface of the printing device that is accessible by the client device based on the link status notification, such that the printing device continues receiving the print job from the client device on the alternate printer network interface.
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a printing device, a printer network interface of the printing device on which the printing device is receiving a print job from a client device is down;
- discovering, by the printing device, available network interfaces associated with the client device upon detecting that the printer network interface on which the print job is being received is down;
- sending, by the printing device, a link status notification to the available network interfaces associated with the client device;
- enabling, by the printing device, the client device to connect to the printing device using an alternate printer network interface of the printing device that is accessible by the client device based on the link status notification;
- and
- resuming, by the printing device, the print job at the printing device using the alternate printer network interface of the printing device, such that the printing device continues receiving the print job from the client device on the alternate printer network interface.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a printing device to:
- register network addresses associated with each of available network interfaces of a client device upon the client device triggering a print job at the printing device via a printer network interface of the printing device;
- detect the printer network interface on which the printing device is receiving the print job is down;
- send a link status notification to available network interfaces associated with the client device upon detecting that the printer network interface on which the print job is being received is down;
- and
- resume the print job at the printing device using an alternate printer network interface of the printing device that is accessible by the client device based on the link status notification, such that the printing device continues receiving the print job from the client device on the alternate printer network interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.