Patent ID: 11941312
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
register a plurality of print devices to a second database of a print system, the second database including a second account for each print device, the plurality of print devices forming a network of inter-organizational print devices;
register a plurality of users to a first database of the print system, the first database including a plurality of print services associated with a plurality of first accounts and the plurality of users respectively having the plurality of first accounts;
provide access to the first database to the plurality of users for a plurality of print jobs associated with the plurality of print services;
apply, for each print job, a number of pages printed in the print job as usage data to the first account associated with the user generating the print job; and
apply, for each print job, an amount of consumables used in printing the print job, as consumption data to the second account on which the print job was printed regardless of the user generating the print job.