PERIPHERAL DEVICE JOB DIRECTION

• US 20170242642A1
• Filed: 02/18/2016
• Published: 08/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: BARRIBEAU, Jeremy, HWANG, Peter G.
• Application Number:
  US15/047,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20170242642A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to identifying a plurality of available peripheral devices, receiving a job for a first peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices, determining whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices, and in response to determining to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices, causing the job to be directed to the second peripheral device instead of the first peripheral device.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

identify a plurality of available, geographically proximate peripheral devices;

receive a job for a first peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices;

determine whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices, wherein the instructions to determine whether to direct the job to the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices comprise instructions to determine whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the job; and

in response to determining to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices, cause the job to be directed to the second peripheral device instead of the first peripheral device.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of available peripheral devices are each associated with an organization.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein plurality of available peripheral devices are each accessible by a user.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the plurality of available peripheral devices being each accessible by the user comprise the plurality of available peripheral devices accepting a login credential associated with the user.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to identify the plurality of available peripheral devices further comprise instructions to identify a plurality of properties associated with each of the available peripheral devices.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to determine whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices comprise instructions to determine whether the first peripheral device comprises an error state.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to determine whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the job comprise instructions to determine whether the second peripheral device has a different capability than the first peripheral device.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to determine whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the job comprise instructions to determine whether the second peripheral device is geographically closer to the user than the first peripheral device.

5. (canceled)

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying a plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices;

receiving a job for a first peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices;

determining whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices wherein determining whether to direct the job to the second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises determining whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the job; and

in response to determining to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices, causing the job to be directed to the second peripheral device instead of the first peripheral device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein determining whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises detecting an error state at the first peripheral device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein determining whether to direct the job to the second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises determining whether the second peripheral device is capable of completing the job faster.

14. The computer-Implemented method of claim 8, wherein determining whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises determining whether the second peripheral device is capable of completing the job at a lower cost.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein determining whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the job comprises determining whether the first peripheral device comprises an incorrectly selected device.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim wherein identifying the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises establishing a wireless connection among the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the wireless connection comprises an ad-hoc wireless network connection.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim wherein the wireless connection comprises a Bluetooth connection.

15. A system, comprising:

a proximity engine to;

identify a plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices, and

identify a plurality of properties of each of the geographically proximate peripheral devices;

a job engine to;

receive a job directed to a first peripher i device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices,

determine, according to the plurality of properties of each of the geographically proximate peripheral devices, whether to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices wherein determining whether to direct the job to the second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices comprises determining whether the second peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is better suited to the lob according to the plurality of properties of each of the geographically proximate peripheral devices, and

in response to determining to direct the job to a second peripheral device of the plurality of geographically proximate peripheral devices, cause at least a portion of the job to be directed to the second peripheral device instead of the first peripheral device.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the job engine causing at least a portion of the job to be directed to the second peripheral device instead of the first peripheral device comprises the job engine to:

split the job into a plurality of portions;

cause a first portion of the job to be completed at the first peripheral device; and

cause a second portion of the job to be completed at the second peripheral device.