Client resident service that launches a browser to provide device status

• US 20030046334A1
• Filed: 08/29/2001
• Published: 03/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Simpson, Shell S.
• Application Number:
  US09/940,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20030046334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method, program product, and system for launching a browser or other service, comprising the steps of: determining if a predetermined event has occurred; and sending a command to a system to launch the browser or service to a particular network location if the predetermined event is determined to have occurred. In one embodiment, the determining step comprises receiving information including a request to launch or other information relating to the predetermined event. In another embodiment, the determining step comprises the step of polling a web site to determine if the predetermined event has occurred.

Claims

1. A method for launching a browser or other service, comprising the steps of:

determining if a predetermined event has occurred; and

sending a command to a system to launch the browser or service to a particular network location if the predetermined event is determined to have occurred.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the browser and/or service is launched after receipt of the command to launch.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the determining step comprises receiving information including a request to launch or other information relating to the predetermined event.

4. The method as defined in claim 3, wherein the receiving information step comprises the step of authenticating the received information and only sending the command to launch the browser and/or service if the request is properly authenticated.

5. The method as defined in claim 3, wherein the receiving information step comprises the step of listening on a network for requests to launch the browser and/or service or other information relating to the predetermined event.

7. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the predetermined event is an indication that a print job is completed.

8. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the predetermined event is an indication that a print job has been interrupted.

9. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the predetermined event is an indication that a job at a web service has been interrupted.

6. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the determining step comprises the step of polling a web site to determine if the predetermined event has occurred.

10. A program product for launching a browser or other service, comprising machine readable program code for causing a machine to perform the following method steps:

determining if a predetermined event has occurred; and

sending a command to a system to launch the browser or service to a particular network location if the predetermined event is determined to have occurred.

11. The program product as defined in claim 10, wherein the program code for the determining step comprises code for receiving information including a request to launch or other information relating to the predetermined event

12. The program product as defined in claim 10, wherein the program code includes code for causing the receiving information step to perform the step of listening on a network for requests to launch the browser and/or service.

13. The program product as defined in claim 10, wherein the program code includes code for causing the determining step to perform the step of polling a network service to determine if the predetermined event has occurred.

14. A system for launching a browser or other service, comprising:

a component for determining if a predetermined event has occurred; and

a component for sending a command to a system to launch the browser or service to a particular network location if the predetermined event is determined to have occurred.