Adaptive configuration of imaging devices
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorSoiba Mohammad
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for configuring an imaging device is provided. A first imaging device may monitor communications exchanged between clients and imaging devices over a network to identify requests to process electronic documents. In response to the first imaging device either detecting a particular request, to process an electronic document, issued to a different imaging device than the first imaging device or receiving at the first imaging device the particular request to process the electronic document, the first imaging device may update its own current configuration for processing electronic documents. For example, an imaging device may update its own current configuration to reflect the most popular way in which electronic documents have been processed by imaging devices on the network.
Claims30
A method for configuring an imaging device, comprising:
- at a first imaging device, monitoring communications exchanged between clients and other imaging devices over a network to identify requests to print electronic documents;
- and
- in response to the first imaging device detecting a particular request to print an electronic document, issued by a client to a second imaging device, the first imaging device updating a current configuration for processing print requests at the first imaging device,
- wherein the first imaging device is different than the second imaging device.
A method for configuring an imaging device, comprising:
- a first imaging device maintaining a network address for a second imaging device;
- after a predetermined interval, the first imaging device sending a request, to the second imaging device, for use data that indicates how electronic documents were processed by the second imaging device using features supported by the second imaging device;
- and
- the first imaging device updating a current configuration of the first imaging device to reflect the use data.
A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for configuring an imaging device, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of
- instructions by one or more processors causes:
- at a first imaging device, monitoring communications exchanged between clients and other imaging devices over a network to identify requests to print electronic documents;
- and
- in response to the first imaging device detecting a particular request to print an electronic document, issued by a client to a second imaging device, the first imaging device updating a current configuration for processing print requests at the first imaging device,
- wherein the first imaging device is different than the second imaging device.
A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for configuring an imaging device, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes:
- a first imaging device maintaining a network address for a second imaging device;
- after a predetermined interval, the first imaging device sending a request, to the second imaging device, for use data that indicates how electronic documents were processed by the second imaging device using features supported by the second imaging device;
- and
- the first imaging device updating a current configuration of the first imaging device to reflect the use data.
An apparatus for configuring an imaging device, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for configuring the imaging device, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by the one or more processors causes:
- at a first imaging device, monitoring communications exchanged between clients and other imaging devices over a network to identify requests to print electronic documents;
- and
- in response to the first imaging device detecting a particular request to print an electronic document, issued by a client to a second imaging device, the first imaging device updating a current configuration for processing print requests at the first imaging device,
- wherein the first imaging device is different than the second imaging device.
An apparatus for configuring an imaging device, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for configuring the imaging device, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by the one or more processors causes:
- a first imaging device maintaining a network address for a second imaging device;
- after a predetermined interval, the first imaging device sending a request, to the second imaging device, for use data that indicates how electronic documents were processed by the second imaging device using features supported by the second imaging device;
- and
- the first imaging device updating a current configuration of the first imaging device to reflect the use data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.