Printer discovery, status and automatic addition of printer...

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2003-04-16

2008-10-14

Grant, II, Jerome (Department: 2625)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

C358S001600

Reexamination Certificate

active

07436533

ABSTRACT:
A method, computer program product and print server for discovering printers connected to a print server. A print server may transmit a HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) request to every Internet Protocol (IP) address in a range of IP addresses. A response, e.g., a document such as a web page, may be received by the print server from one or more devices at one or more IP addresses in the range of IP addresses. The print server may identify one or more out of these devices that transmitted a response as printers based on analyzing the responses from the devices. The print server may obtain printer attribute information from the identified printers and update a database with the obtained printer attribute information.

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