Method and system for using internal data structures for storing information related to remotely monitored devices
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of automatically obtaining device information of an image handling device having a built-in web server, the image handling device communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, the method comprising:
- accessing, by the monitoring system, a database to obtain vendor and model information of the image handling device;
accessing, by the monitoring system, the database using the vendor and model information to obtain support information used to access and extract device information of the image handling device from a web page stored on the image handling device, the support information including a web page location and information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within HTML code of the web page;
accessing, by the monitoring system, the web page using the obtained web page location;
receiving, at the monitoring system, the HTML code of the web page; and
automatically extracting, by the monitoring system, the status information or the configuration of the image handling device from the retrieved HTML code of the accessed web page using the information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within the HTML code.
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Abstract
In a communication system having one or more monitored devices communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, a method of obtaining status information of a monitored device is described. The method includes a) accessing a database having information related to a monitored device; b) retrieving the information from the database; c) populating a map structure with the retrieved information; and d) obtaining the status information from one or more web pages associated with the monitored device using information from the map structure. The method further includes iterating the step of retrieving information from the database in order to obtain the status information until the database has no further information that would be used for extracting status information from the one or more web pages of the monitored device.
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1. A computer-implemented method of automatically obtaining device information of an image handling device having a built-in web server, the image handling device communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, the method comprising:
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accessing, by the monitoring system, a database to obtain vendor and model information of the image handling device; accessing, by the monitoring system, the database using the vendor and model information to obtain support information used to access and extract device information of the image handling device from a web page stored on the image handling device, the support information including a web page location and information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within HTML code of the web page; accessing, by the monitoring system, the web page using the obtained web page location; receiving, at the monitoring system, the HTML code of the web page; and automatically extracting, by the monitoring system, the status information or the configuration of the image handling device from the retrieved HTML code of the accessed web page using the information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within the HTML code. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of obtaining information from a database for use in retrieving device information from one or more web pages associated with an image handling device having a built-in web server, the method comprising:
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a) obtaining an identifier corresponding to the one or more web pages of the image handling device, the identifier being a range of vendor model identifiers; b) filtering information stored in a database using the range of vendor model identifiers as a filter; c) storing the filtered information in one or more tables of the database such that the entries in the one or more tables include vendor model identifiers within the range of vendor model identifiers; and d) using the vendor model identifiers stored in the one or more tables to access the one or more web pages to obtain device information of the image handling device, wherein the device information includes at least one of status information and configuration information of the image handling device. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A computer-implemented system for automatically obtaining device information of an image handling device having a built-in web server, the image handling device comprising:
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a monitoring system communicatively coupled to the image handling device; said monitoring system configured to access a database to obtain vendor and model information of the image handling device; said monitoring system configured to access the database using the vendor and model information, to obtain support information used to access and extract device information of the image handling device from a web page stored on the image handling device, the support information including a web page location and information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within HTML code of the web page; said monitoring system configured to access the web page using the obtained web page location and to retrieve the HTML code of the web page; and said monitoring system configured to automatically extract the status information or the configuration information of the image handling device from the retrieved HTML code of the accessed web page using the obtained information indicating where status or configuration information of the image handling device is located within HTML code of the web page. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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