Methods and systems for outlying peripheral device management

Details Methods and systems for outlying peripheral device management Methods and systems for outlying peripheral device management

2009-04-29

2011-11-01

Kindred, Alford (Department: 2181)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral monitoring

C710S019000, C358S003220, C713S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08051218

ABSTRACT:
Aspects of the present invention comprise systems and methods for detecting and managing peripheral devices that perform outside a given performance envelope. In some aspects, one or more threshold values may be determined prior to or during implementation by heuristic or other methods. These threshold values may then be used to determine device performance. In some aspects, threshold values may relate to performance parameters comprising device failures, consumption levels, output quality and other parameters. In some aspects, multiple threshold values may be used to determine device performance. In an exemplary aspect, a sheet usage threshold, a tone usage threshold and a power usage threshold may be used to determine if a device is an outlying device. In some aspects, performance below an excellence threshold value may indicate that a device has excellent performance.

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