Extending the foreign device interface for MFDS using SNMP...

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2011-03-22

2011-03-22

Poon, King Y (Department: 2625)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

C235S381000, C358S001130, C705S032000, C705S034000, C705S400000, C726S004000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07911633

ABSTRACT:
Employing an extended network interface and system architecture comprising operatively connecting a Foreign Device Interface (FDI) device and Multi-Function Device (MFD) via a network-based communication mechanism, configuring the FDI device as either a vend card device and/or accounting device, monitoring job-level accounting information or additional resource usage information from the MFD, synthesizing multiple information sources from at least one function performed by the MFD, and extending the functionality of said network interface and system architecture.

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Job Monitoring MIB RFC2707, downloaded from the Internet Archive via URL: <http://web.archive.org/web/20020523075312/www.icir.org/fenner/mibs/extracted/Job-Monitoring-MIB-rfc2707.txt>, dated Apr. 23, 2002.

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