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Apparatus and method of automatically transmitting event-related information to a user of a network printing system

  • US 5,778,183 A
  • Filed: 06/12/1995
  • Issued: 07/07/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a network document processing system, a status reporting system using simple network management protocol ("SNMP") to report the occurrence of a selected event relative to the document processing system, comprising:

  • (a) a first SNMP unique identifier;

    (b) an agent communicating with the network, the first SNMP being made accessible to said agent;

    (c) a document processing server communicating with the network;

    (d) a client communicating with the network, said client,(i) registering at least an SNMP trap identifier with said agent, the SNMP trap identifier being associated with the selected event, and(ii) transmitting a job written in a page description language ("PDL") to said document processing server, wherein a second SNMP unique identifier is embedded by said client in a PDL file representative of the job, and said server, upon receiving the job, extracts the second SNMP unique identifier from the PDL file representative of the job for storage in memory;

    (e) in response to the occurrence of the selected event, said document processing server causes the first and second SNMP unique identifiers to be combined for forming the SNMP trap identifier; and

    (f) in response to said combination, said agent transmits a copy of the SNMP trap identifier to said client for notifying said client of the occurrence of the selected event.

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