Patent ID: 11947851
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 8, wherein processing of the instructions by the one or more processors further causes the configuration agent executing on the printing device to, upon satisfaction of one or more criteria:
retrieve a current plurality of settings being used by the printing device,
generate, via the algorithm that uses as inputs the current plurality of settings being used by the printing device, current configuration identification data that uniquely corresponds to the current plurality of settings being used by the printing device,
compare the current configuration identification data to the first configuration identification data,
in response to the current configuration identification data being different than the stored configuration identification data, generate and transmit a request for configuration data to the configuration manager.