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AssigneeDataproducts Corporation
InventorsMaxim A. Sorkin, Gregg Welker, Scott H. Beckstead, Tal Shaffar, Mark P. Murphy
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In an electronic network having a computer, a spooler and a printer, the network address of the printer is automatically detected by a method and a system in which a non-print job, which includes a job header identifying the sending computer, is generated by the computer and transmitted via the spooler to the printer. The printer responds by transmitting an acknowledgment which includes the network address of the printer, to the sending computer. The sending computer identifies and stores the printer address therein. Thereafter, the printer address stored at the computer can be used to provide direct communications with the printer, for purposes of certain printer related functions such as determining the printer configuration or set-up, or monitoring the printer.
In a network in which a sending client terminal transmits data via an intermediate spooling system to a receiving client terminal, a method of detecting the network address of the receiving client terminal comprising the steps of:
In a network having a computer, a spooler and a printer, a method of auto-detecting the network address of the printer for subsequent use by the computer in directly addressing the printer, comprising the steps of:
A network comprising the combination of a spooling system and a plurality of client terminals, a first one of the plurality of client terminals including means for generating and transmitting data via the spooling system to a second one of the plurality of client terminals, the second one of the plurality of client terminals including means for transmitting an acknowledgment to the first client terminal in response to receipt of transmitted data from the first client terminal, the acknowledgment including the network address of the second client terminal, and the first client terminal including means responsive to receipt of the acknowledgment from the second client terminal for auto-detecting and storing the network address of the second client terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.