Device access and control using embedded web access functionality
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsChandrasekar Venkatraman, Jeff Morgan, Thomas A. Shoup, Marcos Frid
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Abstract
A web access functionality embedded in a device includes modules for generating a device web page wherein the device web page enables selection of at least one control function for the device. The web access functionality also includes modules for accessing the device web page via a communication path such that a user of a web browser accesses the control function for the device through the device web page. The control function includes control functions for loading new information into the device via the communication path and control functions for providing notification messages via the communication path upon the occurrence of events in the device.
Claims21
A web access mechanism embedded in a device, comprising:
- means for generating a device web page wherein the device web page enables selection of at least one control function for the device;
- means for accessing to the device web page via a communication path such that a user of a web browser accesses the control function for the device through the device web page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.