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US 9,436,414 B2Granted
Managing a printing device behind a firewall
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHarish B Kamath, Hean Koon Koay, Pai K Atul
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Abstract
One embodiment is method that receives, at a computer, a request to manage a printing device located behind a firewall that blocks the request. The request is executed with an agent authorized to communicate through the firewall and with the computer and the printing device.
Claims20
A method executed by a computer in a network, comprising:
- receiving, at the computer and over the network, a request to manage a parameter of a printing device registered with the network and located behind a firewall that blocks the request;
- and
- executing the request to manage the parameter with an agent outside the firewall authorized to communicate with the computer, and authorized to communicate through the firewall with the printing device.
A tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions for causing a server in a network to execute a method, comprising:
- receiving, from an agent of a printing device, a post providing information about a status of the printing device that is registered with the network and located behind a firewall outside of the network;
- storing the information in a virtual device located in the server;
- and
- transmitting, over an internet, the information to an electronic device outside of the network and authorized to print to the printing device, the transmitting performed in response to the electronic device logging into the network.
1 more element
A computer, comprising:
- a memory storing an algorithm;
- and
- a processor connected to the memory to execute the algorithm that:
- receives, from an agent outside a firewall that prevents communication from the computer to the printing device, a post providing information about a printing device that is located behind the firewall, the agent authorized to communicate with the printing device through the firewall;
- and
- transmits, over a network, the information to an electronic device authorized to print to the printing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.