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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPeter Michael Williams, Patrick Simon Arnold, Frederik Willerup, Anthony Sowden
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A method of passing information between two or more information handling devices is described. Such information handling devices might be a printer 342, a personal computer 343, or a scanner 344. Means for communication of information between information handling devices in the form of a network 341 and network connection means 345 exist. The information transmitted comprises a data format hierarchy, wherein a device intended to receive transmitted data evaluates the data format hierarchy and determines the format in which the data is then received thereby. Advantageously, the receiving device determines the format in which the data is then received by a response to the transmitting device comprising a path through the data format hierarchy, and all data formats comprise one or more of a plurality of data format types, and wherein for each data format type, there exists a data format receivable by all information handling devices supporting that data format type. It is advantageous in implementation if the method of passing information further comprises requests for content data for a chosen path through the data format hierarchy and responses to such requests.
A method of passing information between two or more information handling devices, there being a means for communication of information between information handling devices, wherein said information transmitted comprises a data format hierarchy and determines the format in which the data is then received thereby, and wherein a receiving device determines the format in which the data is then received by a response to a transmitting device comprising a path through the data format hierarchy.
A method of passing information between two or more information handling devices, there being a means for communication of information between handling devices,
A method of passing information to an information processing appliance in a data format suitable for processing by the information processing appliance, comprising:
A method of passing information to an information processing appliance in a data format suitable for processing by the information processing appliance, comprising:
A method by which an information processing appliance receives information from an information source, the method comprising:
An information processing appliance adapted to process information in one or more data formats, the appliance having a communications interface and a processor programmed to select a data format choice suitable for processing by the information processing appliance from a tree structure of data format choices received from an information source through the communications interface, the processor being further programmed to request the selected data format choice from the information source wherein the information processing appliance is adapted to process the information when received in the selected data format.
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