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Apparatus and method for metering, monitoring and providing real time enterprise printing information

  • US 20080312944A1
  • Filed: 06/14/2007
  • Published: 12/18/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring all printers in an enterprise, comprising:

  • for each transaction, authenticating a customer associated with the enterprise and obtaining a session ticket;

    executing a printer list fetcher for downloading a list of in-service printer and print scan load frequency for each location with in the enterprise;

    executing a scheduler for implementing different categories of scans;

    executing a network scan on a computer network to obtain information for all printers attached to the computer network, a local scan on each computer that is attached to a non-network printer to obtain information for all non-network printers in the enterprise and a port scan to obtain information for all non-catalogued printers;

    compiling all scanned information, obtained from executing the network scan, the local scan and the port scan, in a file and dispatching the file to an external server; and

    using the file in the external server to provide printer status information and usage information for each printer in the enterprise.

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