System for cloning document processing related settings in a document processing system

• US 6,026,436 A
• Filed: 11/21/1997
• Issued: 02/15/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Hawes, M. Kerrigan
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US08/975,465
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 395/101, 395/114, 395/115, 709/220-224, 709/229, 709/218
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1297 Printer code translation, conversion, emulation, compression; Configuration of printer parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

A document processing system is provided in which a first document processing related device, having a set of document processing related settings or settings, is disposed remotely of a second document processing related device on a network. A browser is used to get an electronic page for the first document processing related device and information regarding a location of the second document processing on the network is written in the electronic page with the browser. The electronic page with the written information is posted to the first document processing related device and a server provides the electronic page with a subset of the set of document processing related settings or settings. The browser then submits the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to the second document processing related device for programming the second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings.

Claims

1. A document processing system including a plurality of document processing related devices in which each of the document processing related devices communicates with one another by way of a network, comprising:

a first document processing related device with a set of document processing related settings, said document processing related device being programmed with the set of document processing related settings and including a writing service for writing a subset of the set of document processing related settings to one or more electronic pages;

a second document processing related device communicating with said first document processing related device and including a property programming service for programming said second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings; and

a network browsing system, communicating with both the writing service of said first document processing related device and the programming service of said second document processing related device, for causing the one or more electronic pages with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to be submitted from said first document processing related device to said second document processing related device so that the subset of the set of document processing related settings is read by the programming service, when a preselected condition is met, to program said second document processing related device in response to said reading of the subset of the set of document processing related settings by the programming service.

2. The document processing system of claim 1, further comprising a client communicating with both of said first and second document processing related devices and being disposed remotely of said first and second document processing related devices on the network, wherein said client includes said network browsing system.

3. The document processing system of claim 1, wherein said writing service and said programming service each comprise an HTTP service.

4. The document processing system of claim 1, wherein said network browsing system includes a program for submitting the one or more pages automatically to said second document processing related device.

5. The document processing system of claim 4, wherein said program is provided by way of one or more Java applets or Browser Scripts.

6. The document processing system of claim 4, in which the document processing system includes a user interface, with a display screen, communicating with the network, wherein said program causes a set of information to be displayed at the display screen, said information indicating that the subset of the set of document processing related settings has been copied to said second document processing related device.

7. The document processing system of claim 1, wherein said one or more electronic pages comprises at least one HTML form designating current values corresponding with the subset of the set of document processing related settings.

8. The document processing system of claim 1, wherein said first document processing related device and said network browsing system are disposed in a single document processing machine.

9. The document processing system of claim 1, wherein a firewall is disposed between said first document processing related device and said second document processing related device.

10. In a document processing system with a first document processing related device communicating with a second document processing related device by way of a network, the first document processing related device including a set of document processing related settings and a service for obtaining a subset of the set of document processing related settings, the second document processing related device including a service for programming the second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings, the document processing system including a browser communicating with both the first document processing related device and the second document processing related device, a method for copying the subset of the set of document processing related settings from the first document processing related device to the second document processing related device, comprising:

a) using the browser to get an electronic page for the first document processing related device;

b) writing information in the electronic page, with the browser, to identify a location of the second document processing related device;

c) posting the electronic page with the written information to the first document processing related device;

d) using the obtaining service to provide the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings; and

e) using the browser to submit the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to the second document processing related device for programming the second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

f) configuring the document processing system so that the browser resides in the first document processing related device.

12. The method of claim 10, in which the browser includes an interpretative program, wherein said (e) includes using the interpretative program to submit the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to the second document processing related device.

13. The method of claim 10, in which a user interface with a display communicates with the network, further comprising:

f) displaying a message at the display, in response to said submitting, to indicate that the subset of the set of document processing related settings has been submitted to the second document processing related device.

14. The method of claim 10, in which the first document processing related device is separated from the second document processing related device by way of a firewall, wherein said (e) includes transmitting the subset of the set of document processing related settings across the firewall.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

f) configuring the electronic page as an HTML form.